T T HHEE A A NNAABBOOLLIICC S S OOLLUUTTIIOONN The Definitive Metabolic Diet, Training, and Nutritional Supplement Book For Recreational and Competitive Bodybuilders By Mauro G. Di Pasquale, B.Sc., M.D., M.R.O., M.F.S. Copyright 2002 by Mauro Di Pasquale, M.D. 2 Table of Contents About the Author Preface Introduction Chapter One Dietary Fat Is Not The Enemy Competing Diets Chapter Two The Metabolic Diet The Metabolic Advantage Chapter Three Why It Works How It Works Chapter Four Insulin Getting Started Problem-Solving Guide What To Eat Eating Out Chapter Five Good And Bad Fats Chapter Six Measuring Your Progress The Accu-Measure Calipers The Metabolic Index Chapter Seven Start Up Phase Mass Phase Strength Phase Cutting Phase Rest Phase 3 Appendix Cellusol Thermo Metabolic ReNew Exersol Resolve Power Drink Amino NitAbol Myosin Protein Complex GHboost TestoBoost EFA+ Myosin Protein Complex MRP LoCarb LoCarb Sports Bars ReNew Regulate Antiox MVM JointSupport Power Drink Metabolic Creatine Advantage References 4 About The Author I am presently a licensed physician in Ontario, Canada, specializing in Nutrition and Sports Medicine. I hold an honors degree in biological science, majoring in molecular biochemistry and genetics (1968), and a medical degree (1971) - both from the University of Toronto. I am certified as a Medical Review Officer (MRO) by the Medical Review Officer Certification Council (MROCC), and as a Master of Fitness Sciences (MFS) by the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA). I am also a member of the American Academy of Sports Medicine. I was an assistant professor at the University of Toronto for ten years (1988 to 1998) lecturing and researching on athletic performance, nutritional supplements and drug use in sports. I was a world-class athlete for over twenty years, winning the world championships in Powerlifting in 1976, and the World Games in the sport of Powerlifting in 1981. I was Canadian champion eight times, Pan American champion twice, and North American champion twice. I was the first Canadian Powerlifter to become a World Champion and first Canadian Powerlifter to total 10 times bodyweight in any weight class and I'm the only Canadian to ever total ten times bodyweight in two weight classes. Over the last four decades I have had extensive exposure to athletic injuries and disabilities, and ergogenic and nutritional supplement use by athletes. I have been chairman/member of several national and international powerlifting, bodybuilding and Olympic weight lifting sports federation medical committees. Over this period of time I have acted as a consultant, medical advisor, drug testing officer and technical expert on the pharmacology and pathophysiology of sports, nutritional supplement use and drug testing. I was the Medical Director to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Bodybuilding Federation (WBF) and the acting MRO for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). At present I am the President of the International United Powerlifting Federation and the Pan American (North, Central and South America, Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Caribbean Islands) Powerlifting Federation. I have written several books dealing with diet, nutritional supplements and the use of ergogenic aids by athletes. In 1995 I wrote two books. One of these books, the Bodybuilding Supplement Review is a review of nutritional supplements and the other, the Anabolic Diet, was an attempt at setting up a working high fat, low carb diet for bodybuilders. In 1997 I wrote Amino Acids and Proteins for the Athlete - The Anabolic Edge published by CRC Press was released in October 1997. I have also written and am in the process of 5 writing chapters for several books on nutrition, sports medicine, substance abuse, fitness and weight training. At present I'm working on several other books including a comprehensive nutritional supplement manual. In the past thirty-five years I have written several hundred articles on training, diet, nutritional supplements, and drug use in sports for many magazines and association journals. I've written for and had regular monthly columns in all the popular bodybuilding and fitness journals including Muscle and Fitness, Flex, Men's Fitness, Shape, Muscle Media, Muscle Mag International, IronMan, Powerlifting USA and many smaller publications. From 1996 to 1999 I was involved in writing, research and product development for Experimental and Applied Sciences (EAS) and Muscle Media, and was a member of the EAS Scientific Advisory Panel. I've contributed chapters on diet and nutritional supplements to several fitness, weight and sports medicine books as well as books on anabolic steroids and substance abuse. The latest chapters on nutrition appears in Energy-Yielding Macronutrients and Energy Metabolism in Sports Nutrition and in Nutritional Applications in Exercise and Sport, both edited by Judy A. Driskell and Ira Wolinsky and published in 2000 and 2001 respectively by CRC Press. I’m in the process of finishing the nutritional, nutritional supplement and ergogenic aids section (about half the book) in the second edition of Serious Strength Training scheduled to be released this coming Spring by Human Kinetics. In the past three decades I have been on several Editorial Boards for various fitness and strength magazines and was the Editor-in-Chief of a two quarterly international newsletter on sports nutrition and ergogenic aids. I act as an international consultant for amateur and professional athletes and sports bodies on all aspects of training, nutrition and supplementation. I act as an international consultant and expert witness for amateur and professional athletes and sports bodies, private corporations and companies, and government agencies on legal matters relating to nutritional supplements, and the use and abuse, and drug testing of anabolic steroids, growth hormone and other ergogenic drugs. I hold seminars and lecture all over the world on diet, nutritional supplements and training. In the past I have lectured and held seminars in dozens of cities in North America, and all over the world. I also formulate engineered, cutting edge, scientifically validated nutritional supplements for various companies that are sold under their specific labels. Most recently I formulated a new group of nutritional supplements meant to combat nighttime post absorptive catabolism and enhance the anabolic and recuperative effects of sleep. I’m now working with several prominent researchers from the US and several other countries. Those in the US include doctors at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. I formulated a complete nutritional supplement line, which includes over 25 cutting edge products designed to work with the Metabolic Diet and to maximize body composition, 6 athletic performance and the beneficial effects of exercise. These formulations were done using the latest scientific and medical information, along with the knowledge and expertise I’ve accumulated in the last four decades. I’ve tried to use the best ingredients available regardless of costs to form products that are superior to any on the market today. These supplements, plus my latest book, The Metabolic Diet along with related books and ebooks (www.MetabolicDiet.com), form the nutritional backbone of some of my new international ventures. I’m now in the process of releasing new supplement formulations for my new international Signature Series of nutritional supplements and developing my two web sites, www.MetabolicDiet.com and www.CoachSOS.com. The goal of the new sites is to provide specific and detailed training, diet and nutritional supplement schedules for anyone including those who just want to lose some weight and/or body fat, to those who want to train for a specific activity or sport, including recreational sports, team sports, bodybuilding, Olympic events, and all the various other power and endurance sports. My new book, The Anabolic Solution, written for both recreational and competitive bodybuilders, is an attempt on my part to present the ultimate cutting edge, training specific, diet and nutritional supplement guide geared to maximize muscle mass and minimize body fat. In fact my Anabolic Solution is so effective that it offers the only viable alternative to the dangerous use of muscle building drugs such as anabolic steroids, growth hormone, IGF-I, clenbuterol, thyroid, insulin, and countless others. 7 Photo Archive My wild lifting days – picture taken in 1982, weighing around 195 lbs and getting ready to attack a 780 lb deadlift. At that bodyweight I had no neck to speak of. Neck measurement at that time was 19.5 inches. 8 At the Beach in 1986 – weighing about 185 lbs at 7% bodyfat. And still with hair. 9 Eddie Robinson and Me in the summer of 1996, outside 10K Fitness – my gym in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. Bodyweight was just over the 200 lb mark. 10 Tom Platz and I comparing pipes at my house in Cobourg in the Summer of 1996.