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News / athletic performance
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Apr 04, 2017
Does Nutritional Ketone Supplementation Improve Athletic Performance?
Read more →I have written about the advantages of changing to a higher fat diet and how many athletes, including myself, have been able to reduce supplemental nutrition during racing. This supplemental nutrition has been in the form of carbohydrate drinks, chewable gels, commercial bars and homemade foods. More recently, people have begun to question whether or not using supplemental/dietary ketones (sometimes referred to as exogenous ketones) is an advantage for athletes. I was able to find one study in Cell Metabolism that examined nutritional ketone supplementation. The study was interesting in that researchers designed five studies within one umbrella study. Depending...