Post-exercise ketones enhance endurance performance and adaptations 🫁📈
A recovery stack staple for endurance?
Post-exercise ketone supplementation improves endurance performance and mitochondrial adaptations during an 8-week endurance training intervention
Study Details
This new study recruited 28 trained males who completed 8 weeks of periodised cycling training receiving either…
1️⃣ 25 g of ketone monoester supplement
2️⃣ Isocaloric placebo
…post-exercise and before sleep.
Key Findings
Across the intervention, both groups improved…
⏱️ Time trial performance
🫁 VO2peak
💥 Peak power output
🫀 Peak cardiac output
🧬 Citrate synthase activity (marker of mitochondria density)
The ketone group had significantly greater improvements that the placebo group for…
✅ Time trial performance power (+4%)
✅ Related VO2peak (+12%)
✅ Citrate synthase activity (+14%)
✅ OXPHOS complex II muscle protein content (another marker of mitochondrial function) (+25%)
Conclusion
Taking ketones after endurance training can enhance performance and training adaptations 📈
Likely a big financial investment, but is it worth the payoff to elite endurance athletes? 🧐
Reference
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP290315
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