Tom and I just finished recording our latest episode of ClimbSci (which you can listen to already on SoundCloud or your favorite podcast app!), and something I kept saying throughout the episode is “I wish I could draw this out for you”. Well, I didn’t have the capability in the episode, but I can provide […]
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ClimbSci Episode 9: The Ketogenic Diet
It’s been a stretch, but the latest episode of ClimbSci is officially out. Actually, if you’re a subscriber, you’d know it’s been out since around last Friday since Tom generally uploads to SoundCloud the day after recording—so if you want early access to ClimbSci, all you have to do is subscribe! We covered the ketogenic […]
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ClimbSci Episode 8: Listener Q&A #1
Tom and I had a great time with this episode; directly answering questions that you guys have is a lot of fun! We covered some interesting territory, with questions related to protein timing and synthesis, cross-body training effects, metabolic effects of weight loss, and more. We’ll definitely do another of these episodes in the future, […]
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A Climber’s Guide to Carbohydrates: Part I
There are three macronutrients (four, if you include alcohol). So far on this site, I’ve only written a “guide” for one of them: protein. Protein is definitely the macronutrient I get the most questions about, and in general is more complicated than either fats or carbohydrates, but I have meant to write guides for all the […]
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The Most Overrated Vegetables
If there’s one thing every nutritionist can agree on, it’s that vegetables are great. They’re high in nutrients, low in calories, and in general should be found on all plates, 100% of the time. One thing that often gets glossed over, though, is that not all vegetables are equally great. Truthfully, some are only kind of […]
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Are You Drinking Enough Water?
It’s the hot time of the year again, at least here in the northern hemisphere. I mean, it’s been incredibly hot for over a month now, but mid-July through August is traditionally the hottest part of the year where I live in Boulder, CO, so since we’ve already had a few days flirting with 100° […]
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Nutritional Paradoxes
The world of nutrition is filled with paradoxes. We think we know something, and know it true, only to discover that outside of our curated data pool there exists a second pool that apparently defies our own data. These paradoxes are part of what make nutrition hard, but also simple—it’s why you can study nutrition […]
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ClimbSci Episode 7: Recovery, Part II
The follow-up to ClimbSci Episode 6: Recovery, Part I has been released—here to answer your burning questions about how to improve recovery (or recover well in general after climbing) is ClimbSci Episode 7: Recovery, Part II! Tom and I give more practical guidelines on what you should (and should not) be doing while recovering, how much […]
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Supplement Updates 2018
Normally I like to do these at the beginning of the year and not halfway through it, but somehow they completely skipped my mind! So, before we get too much further into the year (or let it pass by completely), let’s look at what research has been added for the various supplements I’ve covered here […]
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Should You Worry About Getting Enough Vitamin K2?
[This is an edited reprint of a post I did for another blog I ran a few years back. I’ve seen vitamin K (and K2) popping up around the news again, so I thought it might be a good time to put this article out again, especially since we’ve been talking about micronutrients anyway!] Vitamin […]
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