carbohydrate diets often experience a mental boost
when consuming sugar. Does that mean sugar is a
performance-boosting agent? No! It is merely treating
symptoms of withdrawal. Stepping out of the cycle of
carbohydrate addiction is thus the best way to achieve
sustained high performance.
You will be minimizing your risk for
prediabetes/metabolic syndrome and, ultimately,
type 2 diabetes.^1 The reduced demand on your
pancreas will help promote optimal sensitivity to
insulin.
If you are already prediabetic or have type 2
diabetes, reducing carbohydrates can help reverse
insulin resistance. Insulin resistance has been
associated with greater plaque buildup in the brain
and worse cognitive function when compared to
metabolically healthy controls. Studies that have
pitted the typically prescribed “anti-diabetes” diet
(which includes pasta and low-fat tortillas) against a
diet devoid of grains (which focuses instead on
vegetables and healthy fats) have shown that the
grain-free diets improve health outcomes to a greater
degree.
You will create fewer advanced glycation end-
products. AGEs are gerontotoxins that accelerate
aging. If the prospect of protecting your eyes,
kidneys, brain, liver, and heart doesn’t sell you on
this point, perhaps the reduction in skin wrinkling and
sagging will!
You will reduce inflammation throughout your