I stumbled onto a YouTube video at 2am that changed everything.
It was a documentary about Muay Thai fighters in rural Thailand. The camera followed these guys through their daily routine—training, eating, resting, training again.
What caught me wasn't the fighting. It was what they were eating.
Rice. Mountains of it. Noodles. Fried street food. Sticky rice with mango for dessert.
These weren't young guys either. The head trainer was 52. Shirtless the entire video. Midsection tighter than most 25-year-olds I see at my gym.
I paused the video and just stared.
This guy eats more carbs before noon than I allow myself in a week. And he looks like that at 52?
I spent the next three hours reading everything I could find about Thai fighters and metabolism.
That's when I found the studies on Krachai Dam.