M.I.T. He holds 12 U.S. Patents in various areas of drug delivery technology and hormonal modulation for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. That's why I'm still waiting for anyone to demonstrate that a high carbohydrate diet when consumed for more than five days has any enhancement on athletic performance. Nothing in the published scientific literature supports the current thinking that long-term consumption of a high carbohydrate diet imporves athletic performance. All sports nutrition is currently based on the belief that greater muscle glycogen levels will improve performance. However, if that statement is not true, then consuming more carbohydrates to increase muscle glycogen levels will not be of any benefit to an athlete, and may even impair their maximum performance potential.
All athletic performance is ultimately dependent on adaptation.
At the molecular level, this requires the complex orchestration of various hormonal systems that enable an athlete to perform at higher work loads. Understanding how training and diet affects these hormonal systems is the real key to achieving maximum athletic performance. The answer requires understanding how insulin negatively affects eicosanoids. If you have never heard of eicosanoids, don't be too concerned because most physicians, let alone exercise physiologists, have never heard of them either. This ignorance is in spite of the fact that the 1982 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for understanding their importance in human physiology, and more importantly in controlling the cardiovascular system.