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The thermic effect of food (TEF) is the energy expenditure above the body's resting metabolic rate due to the cost of processing food for use and storage. Basically, your body has to burn calories to break food down. Your system has to work much harder to assimilate nutrients that aren't...

Maybe you've got a grandparent or two that you care about, or some parents that are getting close to being grandparents themselves. You might have seen how they faced war, economic instability, and personal hardships, but none of it came close to defeating them. No, it wasn't until old age and...

ARE MY CREATINE GAINS JUST WATER? Most people gain weight so rapidly after starting to take creatine that logic tells you that the weight gain is almost all water. That may be largely true after you first begin taking it, but even then, the increase in weight appears to be proportional to the...

When the coronavirus hit, they were one of the few countries that had plenty of personal protective equipment (PPE) to go around. Sure, a lot of it was old and was probably decorated with characters from the old Howdy Doody TV show and the Flintstones, but it worked just fine. So it makes...

HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW... Turn raspberry cheesecake into cookies with just three ingredients. Eat your coffee. Make mocha chip cheesecake cookies. They're low carb and caffeinated. Make banana-banana cookies using oats, bananas, and banana protein powder. Make high protein icing from just...

Intense training activates protein synthesis, but only if the right nutrition is there to support it. If you read the article John Meadows and I wrote called Maximize Protein Synthesis, or if you've read anything that T Nation's been saying on the subject for years, you're likely familiar with...

People who want to build a lean, muscular physique go through a kind of nutritional evolution: STAGE 1 First, they start to actually pay attention to nutrition. After the newbie gains fizzle out, they realize they need to improve their diet strategy... or, you know, actually have one. They...

While conventional diets may be fine for the average person, they definitely don't work for bodybuilders. It takes an extraordinary nutrition plan to build an extraordinary physique. After lots of reading, research, and speculation (followed by more screwing up than you'd want to know about) I...

Workout waffles? WOD waffles? Protein waffles? Wait... proffles! #Proffles better start trending. Whatever you want to call these, they're delicious. Waffles don't have to be a cheat day thing either. Make them like this and you can have 'em every day. INGREDIENTS 1 whole egg 1/4 cup Egg...

To paraphrase Tom Jefferson, all protein powders are not created equal, and there are no self-evident truths to prove otherwise. Just as an example, whey and sodium or calcium caseinate are very much different from micellar casein. You wouldn't ideally use the whey or the sodium or calcium...

FANCY HOTELS AND COLD FOOD Do this: Book a weekend stay at a really nice hotel that offers a breakfast buffet. Take a close look at the cold selections and you may find something interesting, like... cold oatmeal? Sounds weird, but that's exactly what I saw (and reluctantly tried) fifteen years...

Protein is more filling than fat or carbohydrate. Studies show that protein is the most satiating while fat is the least satiating. Carbs fall in the middle. Protein has an influence on CCK (cholecystokinin) and ghrelin. Protein may stimulate CCK and decrease ghrelin. CCK acts as a satiety...

When it comes to making muscle, it takes two to tango. First we need the stress of exercise to stimulate the need to build muscles and then we need the extra protein to make sure that happens. In other words, you can’t expect to build thick, 3D biceps by neglecting to eat enough of this macro...

STEROID USERS AND YOU If you're a drug-free lifter, it's highly likely that you've been duped steroid users. They didn't do it intentionally, but you've suffered nonetheless. Here's what they did: They made you, the natural lifter, assume that drugs simply enhanced the response to training. You...

There's a lot of talk today about soy. Turn on the news and its soy, read a diet book and you'll find soy, go to your local gym and a personal trainer will recommend soy. What is it about soy that has captivated this nation? Well for starters it has many health benefits backed up by good...

Combining sports nutrition and training for maximum benefit The ultimate goal of any bodybuilder is of course to increase muscle mass. Trouble is, once you’ve passed the ‘newbie gains’ stage the rate of muscle growth begins to decline, making it increasingly difficult to maintain consistent...

When we were young lifters, searching for answers usually meant imitating the workouts of the biggest guy in the gym or flipping to page 36 of a magazine to see our favorite bodybuilder's nutrition suggestions. Our naïve minds soaked up rivers of bro-science without even knowing it. To us, it...

Sometimes it can be confusing determining which nutrition experts you can trust. When it comes to eggs, one study finds them good for you, and then next one calls them dangerous. So which ones are right. Although this back-and-forth, widely-debated topic can be confusing, determining whether an...

NO YOLKS, NO HAM, SAM-I-AM Back in the 1990's, the sewers ran yellow with discarded egg yolks. The specter of high, artery-clogging cholesterol had risen above the land and health-conscious citizens everywhere began discarding their yolks. Restaurants quickly caught on and started featuring...

HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW... The nutrition you consume around your workout can greatly increase your rate of progress. Pre-workout and intra-workout nutrition is more important that post-workout nutrition. By ingesting protein before and during a workout, you spare muscle protein, negate...