CHAPTER 6
SOME COMMON QUESTIONS
The Anabolic Diet is bound to be the cause of plenty of controversy in the bodybuilding
community. It runs counter to a lot of what we’ve been told about the wonders of carbohydrates
and dangers of dietary fat.
It’s also new, and though founded on nutritional principle, research, and the hard work of a
select group of ground-breaking bodybuilders, it’s understandable that people may have concerns
and doubts. In this final chapter I’ll provide a “question and answer” forum to put those fears
to rest, give you a better idea how the diet works, and summarize some of the major points I’ve
made earlier.
- Does this diet work with Anabolic Steroids?
Yes, it will. And you should get better results than if you were just using the steroids.
Still, we’re not going to recommend it. Most bodybuilders will see the Anabolic Diet as
an alternative to drug use, and they’ll use it to naturally produce the same effects they’ve
seen with steroids. This is the reason the diet was first designed. - Doesn’t the body need glucose for energy and endurance?
The answer here is “yes,” but only if you’re in the usual “glycogen/glucose/pyruvic acid”
cycle activated by a diet that relies on carbohydrates. Once you’ve made the “metabolic
shift” to the Anabolic Diet and you’re burning dietary and body fat for energy, you don’t
need the glucose from the carbohydrates.
Even if on a high carb diet, fat is still an important source of energy and actually a more
efficient fuel than either carbs or protein. It shouldn’t be too surprising to find that energy
levels and endurance aren’t hindered once you switch over to burning free fatty acids as
your main energy supply. - Doesn’t the brain need carbohydrates to function?
It’s commonly believed that the brain needs glucose to function but, as above, this is a myth.
As a matter of fact, the brain will gladly use ketones to function, and ketones are produced
in more than sufficient amounts during free fatty acid oxidation on the Anabolic Diet.
On the other hand, if you’re worried about alertness, performance, and other visible aspects
of brain function, you have to be concerned with the high serotonin levels linked with a
high carb diet.
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