WillgumWoah dude I didn't realize the first ingredient on this stuff is Maltodextrin... thats insane. I used to chug this shit in college.

Yeah the world of nutrition is hazy AF and lots of differing opinions, but I will always choose real food (the stuff we were evolved to digest) over shortcut stuff like this.

Maltodextrin is higher on the glycemic index than TABLE SUGAR. Research also shows that it can fuck up gut bacteria, amongst a bunch of other things.

Load up on grass fed beef and skip that shit.

Are you diabetic or something?

Granby_killdozerAre you diabetic or something?

Nah, but I did an elimination diet last year to experiment and just kinda fuck around. I felt 100% healthy prior but I had a suspicion that I, like most, was actually experiencing diet-related inflammation.

I started with just beef, fish, mussels, and eggs for a couple weeks to set a baseline (side note I felt amazing here but energy for my long endurance was lacking).

And then added various fruit, followed by veggies (didn’t realize how much veggies caused gas). Still no inflammation. Added in carbs via rice and potatoes - all good.

Up to this point all my food was whole, organic, pasture raised eggs, grass fed beef, local produce. But once I reintroduced processed food with things like:

Maltodextrin, palm oil, seed oils, preservatives, dyes… and started buying stuff that could sit on a shelf for longer than a week? Bro I felt like shit compared to how clean I’d felt earlier.

Call me a hippy but I really don’t think anybody operates well when we’re eating stuff that can sit on a shelf like that. Yeah it fits our macros, we can gain mass, but our guts evolved for 10’s of thousands of years eating real food and now we’re gonna make chocolate gainer shakes with that stuff? I’m good haha

WillgumNah, but I did an elimination diet last year to experiment and just kinda fuck around. I felt 100% healthy prior but I had a suspicion that I, like most, was actually experiencing diet-related inflammation.

I started with just beef, fish, mussels, and eggs for a couple weeks to set a baseline (side note I felt amazing here but energy for my long endurance was lacking).

And then added various fruit, followed by veggies (didn’t realize how much veggies caused gas). Still no inflammation. Added in carbs via rice and potatoes - all good.

Up to this point all my food was whole, organic, pasture raised eggs, grass fed beef, local produce. But once I reintroduced processed food with things like:

Maltodextrin, palm oil, seed oils, preservatives, dyes… and started buying stuff that could sit on a shelf for longer than a week? Bro I felt like shit compared to how clean I’d felt earlier.

Call me a hippy but I really don’t think anybody operates well when we’re eating stuff that can sit on a shelf like that. Yeah it fits our macros, we can gain mass, but our guts evolved for 10’s of thousands of years eating real food and now we’re gonna make chocolate gainer shakes with that stuff? I’m good haha

Yeah I feel that, I personally need to get in around 3300 calories a day if I want to see any meaningful weight gain before spring though. It's pretty hard to do that when you're only eating the healthy organic stuff. Those mass gainer shakes make it a whole lot easier.