Conventional wisdom says you need to eat lots of carbs to exercise. As you probably know that’s not true. But how low carb can you go — and are there even benefits to performance from eating extremely low carb?

Peter Attia is a medical doctor and an endurance athlete. He’s learned from the world’s biggest experts on keto-adaptation (such as dr Stephen Phinney) and in the last few years he has relentlessly self-experimented.

Here dr Attia shares his insights on very low carb (ketogenic) diets and physical and mental performance.

Peter Attia’s blog: The Eating Academy (highly recommended)