By 1990, I had come out with my book Beyond Anabolic Steroids and begun to provide articles for a variety of fitness, bodybuilding and powerlifting publications on the subject. A few years later, I started writing on my new diet system and in 1995 wrote The Anabolic Diet. The response to the Anabolic Diet and the newer Metabolic Diet has been remarkable. In a world where steroids are a real gamble, both in terms of competition and health, the Anabolic Diet and Metabolic Diet both gave the bodybuilders and powerlifters who used it that natural edge they were looking for.
The Metabolic Diet maximizes the serum levels of testosterone (even in women), growth hormone and insulin (the Big 3) to help keep the muscle mass as you shed fat.
This is one of the most remarkable effects of the Metabolic Diet and it doesn't come easy. Many hormones are reactive to others. For instance, as insulin goes up, growth hormone may decrease. If insulin decreases, growth hormone may increase. The two substances generally don't work together, but they can. If you can increase both substances, you'll get better results than with an increase in one hormone alone.
MD+ supplements, combined with the Metabolic Diet will help in increasing insulin sensitivity, testosterone, growth hormone and IGF-1 as needed. Some of you will be very serious about your goals and may be seeking to take the advanced path a competitive powerlifter normally takes. Others will just be interested in keeping the body big and strong and fat levels down.
Whatever your goals, you'll find the Metabolic Diet an effective tool for increasing strength and muscle mass and keeping bodyfat levels to a minimum.
Bottom line: the Metabolic Diet is really meant for the natural athlete who wants to be the best he can be naturally, but it works for anyone, with or without drug use. And, while it's much easier and convenient to stay on than the high carb diet, it will still require some dedication and the will to properly execute it. The key to success in the diet is to make sure you take your body through a "metabolic shift" where you'll begin to use dietary fat and bodyfat instead of carbs and muscle protein as the main fuel for your body. To do this, you'll have to follow the diet very closely, especially at the beginning.
The battle that the drug-free athlete engages in is not an easy one. He must face up to drug-using and abusing competition and drug-based competitive standards in every contest. What the Metabolic Diet does is to give him the same kind of benefits the drug user obtains.
By introducing anabolic drugs or agents into his body, the drug user increases the circulating amount of anabolic hormones and other compounds, which in turn produces the desired anabolic effect of muscle growth. The Metabolic Diet does the same thing, only instead of introducing the anabolic substances from an exogenous source outside the body, the diet stimulates the production of anabolic hormones IN THE BODY. It is LEGAL and it is SAFE.
Best of all, it's a SURE THING. If you follow the diet, IT WON'T FAIL. It may sound bizarre, it may counter everything you've ever been led to believe about diets, fat and carbohydrates, BUT IT WORKS. It is a biochemical inevitability. You WILL get the combination of increased strength and lean body mass with less bodyfat you're looking for if you follow the diet properly.
And you'll get it naturally, without the dangers of steroids.
Given the trials and tribulations most of us have experienced with their "diets", what more can you ask from a nutrition program?
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