The Met Flex Diet
by Ian K. Smith
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Ian K. Smith, a powerful six-week plan to burn fat more efficiently by improving metabolic flexibility.
The human body has the amazing ability to switch which fuels it uses for energy based on what fuel is available at the time—researchers call this metabolic flexibility. Bodies that are able to make this switch can burn sugars, proteins, and other food nutrients when available, and then switch to burning the body's fat storage or fatty acids when food calories are not available. It turns out that losing weight is not just about burning calories, it's also about switching between these pathways as efficiently as possible. Yet little has been written about how to achieve metabolic flexibility—until now.Dr. Ian K. Smith is a renowned medical expert and the author of numerous bestselling health books. In The Met Flex Diet, he offers a one-of-a-kind plan to improve metabolic flexibility through changing the types and quantities of food/beverages consumed, as well as the type of exercise. Timing is also a factor—timing of meals and timing of exercise relative to when the meals are consumed. All of these variables will play an important role in helping the body make the important switch from one fuel source to another.In just six weeks, readers can experience amazing fat-burning results by following simple guidelines, like:
- Eat the first meal of the day three hours after waking.
- Complete a fasted cardio workout within the first two hours of waking.
- Get at least seven hours of sleep a night.
- Finish dinner two hours before going to sleep.
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Author Biography
Dr. Ian K. Smith is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books, Shred: The Revolutionary Diet, and Super Shred: The Big Results Diet, Blast the Sugar Out, The Clean 20, The Ancient Nine, Clean & Lean, and fifteen other books with millions of copies in print.He is a longtime medical contributor to Emmy Award-winning The Rachael Ray Show, and former solo host of the nationally syndicated, Emmy award-winning television show The Doctors. He also served as the medical/diet expert for six seasons on VH1's highly rated Celebrity Fit Club and is the creator and founder of the national health initiatives The 50 Million Pound Challenge and The Makeover Mile.Dr. Smith graduated from Harvard College with an AB and received a master's in science education from Teachers College of Columbia University. He completed his first two years of medical school at Dartmouth then graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
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