Performance Nutrition Digest

Performance Nutrition Digest

High carbohydrate replenishes liver but not muscle glycogen during 12 hr post-exercise recovery 🔋

Significant implications for multi-day events.

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Tom Coughlin
Sep 01, 2025
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Carbohydrate intake of 10 g/kg body mass rapidly replenishes liver, but not muscle glycogen contents, during 12 h of post-exercise recovery in well-trained cyclists

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This new study recruited 12 well-trained male cyclists to complete gl…

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