Team, if you haven't yet, head on over to 3Pillers Method.com to start a five-day free trial on my app. This is where you can go through the entire Three Pillars Method process to develop your own personalized nutrition plan for those weight, health, and fitness goals. That's 3Pillers Method.com, and the link is in the show notes. Let's get into the show. Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project Podcast. My name is Patrick Cummings. As always, I'm here at E.C. Sinkowski. Every week on the show, we aim to simplify the science of nutrition, health and fitness, cutting through the noise to focus on the principles and practices that will help you perform better, feel better, and of course live better. Thank you so much for tuning into the show hello Hello, we see. How are you? Great. How are you doing? I'm great. I'm good. We're going to talk about something. I saw you post something about this on social and I kind of thought like, oh, that's a joke, right? That's not a real thing. Apparently it's a real thing. We're going to talk about the sugar diet. Yeah, we're not going to about the sugar diet, what it is, how it, quote, unquote,

works, some of the scientific claims and whether they hold up to any scrutiny, and then why perhaps diet trends, extreme diet trends like this, continue to show up and gain popularity despite all of their obvious flaws.

So that's what we're going to talk about today is the sugar diet.

Ready? Right. Let's try. First question, obvious question. Where did this come from? And why are we talking about it? Oh, man. Yeah, I mean, I would say in our corner of the internet, I think the most influential in terms of the sugar diets, Mark Bell. He's a former competitive powerlifter.

Hit some pretty insane numbers.

I think he's like 10th all time in some of the numbers he's hit.

So pretty strong dude.

Also have seen some commentary from a vegan competitive cyclist who goes by the handle

Durian rider.

From what I can see on his YouTube content, he's pretty into being lean and showing that off.

And then there's also Cole Robinson.

It's just such a funny way to put what I'm sure it actually is.

Didn't take me very long to get into that.

And then Cole Robinson, who I really don't know much about,

he seems to start every YouTube video with yelling, hey, fatty, and then proceeds to just yell.

At some point, he was also taking borax, the laundry cleaner in his diet. So, especially the latter

two, it was pretty hard to get far into the content.

Definitely spent a little bit more time with Mark Bell's content.

Before getting into kind of the specifics of the sugar diet,

I do also want to point out that, like,

Mark Bell was really into keto carnivore as of like six months ago from what I can tell.

And Cole Robinson used to really promote his snake diet,

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