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75g of protein, 4g of carbs and 28g of fat with zero gluten or any acellular carbohydrates from any flours. Oh.. and its delicious! Lets get started... Here’s a quick and easy-to-prepare recipe if you want to eat a piece of delicious pizza but don’t want the carbohydrates associated with flour-based crusts regardless of whether or not they contain gluten. Some of you may recall Alisa and my trip to the popular New York eatery Quality Italian a few years ago. We ordered the Chicken Parmesan and what arrived like more like a wood-fired pizza than chicken. That’s because the “crust” was made of chicken breast! I recreated this dish at home and shared the recipe on Facebook. Fast forward to this weekend. Many of you know there’s an amazing new pizza product on the market that took this concept to a new level. And they’re delicious and convenient to just...

Dr. Jose Antonio has put out some truly novel research looking at high-protein diets. I’m not talking about the arbitrary 30% of calories that can vary widely depending on energy intake. Rather, I’m talking about grams per unit of bodyweight – as it should be. Previous research by Dr. Antonio had shown that taking a group of healthy resistance-training men and women and having them increase their protein intake from 2.3 to 4.4 g/kg (1 to 2 g/lb) had no effect on body composition. This study was followed up with another study that showed that consuming 3.4 g/kg (1.5 g/lb) had a more favorable effect on body composition than consuming 2.3 g/kg (1 g/lb) when combined with a structured resistance training program. This latter study also showed no signs of harmful effects from a basic metabolic panel. Now, Antonio et al have published the third study digging into this rabbit hole....

Protein is arguably the most important macronutrient we eat, and all the protein we accrue within the body is in the form of muscle, organs, and countless of other essential compounds. In fact, the typical human cell is roughly one-fifth protein by mass. Unlike carbohydrates and fat, there is no storage form of protein on the body that sits around waiting to be used – every single amino acid plays an important role in our wellbeing. Although it may not necessarily be healthy, the body can survive indefinitely without carbohydrate intake and for a very long time with little to no fat intake. On the other hand, insufficient protein intake leads to rapid death. Generally speaking, all tissues in the body are under a state of constant remodeling via protein breakdown and synthesis. These processes are distinct physiological pathways (not simply the reverse of one-another) and their relationship can be referred...