Andrew Huberman· PhD
the second group was 40% carbohydrates this is remember the Zone diet 40 3030 yeah I liked that diet okay I mean there's EV is I mean I don't follow it anymore but you know I tried it for a little while and and it works great and there's some evidence to support that that is a great ratio for people coming off the lowfat era of the '90s the Zone diet felt like um the best thing ever because it was like oh you know you can enjoy some fats and wow your satiety is improved and um you get stronger you just feel better when you're ingesting some ideally quality fats that's my experience anyway and also we know that it influences hormonal status you don't want to push uh fats too low so the second group had a 40330 split so it was 40 gr of carbohydrates 30 gram of protein 30 gr or 30 % fat so these are all percentages yeah 40 30 40% now we didn't talk so much about the distribution but what is really important to understand is they were isocaloric so they both had the same calories the difference was the percentage of where the calories came from and how they were given um and there was actually four different arms to this so there was individuals that exercised and individuals that didn't okay so either zone diet or let's call it I hate to say this but more stand that's how it was designed standard American versus Zone diet so it was designed that way and then exercising or non- exercising for for each of the for this 12 month study