Mike McInnes is a pharmacist and sports nutritionist who has worked with many athletes. After selling his award-winning pharmacy business to the UK's premier pharmacy chain, Boots, in 1997 he began researching the specifics of energy partition and selection in exercise and has continued to research the relationship between sugars and energy, especially for enhancing mental and sports performance, for over 20 years. He is the author of The Honey Diet (Hodder 2014, also translated into German) and The Hibernation Diet (2007).