Performance Nutrition Digest

Performance Nutrition Digest

Isotonic sports drink or water during fasted exercise?🥤

Carbs or no carbs after an overnight fast.

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Tom Coughlin
Jul 12, 2025
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Exercise with fasting or isotonic drink? A randomized controlled trial in youth elite basketball players

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Study Details

This new study recruited 71 elite youth basketball players to drink either…

1️⃣ 400 ml 7% isotonic solution

2️⃣ 400 ml water (fasti…

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