KETONES: A TRIATHLETE’S NEW SUPERFUEL? (excerpt)
- Anthony Almada, MSc., FISSN
- May 16, 2017
- 2 min read
Ketone supplements, a story-based scientific look.
You and your 165-pound body have been on the windless flats for 63 minutes, halfway into your 70.3 Springtime jaunt. Before your eyes look up, and before your virtual GPS watch pings its barometric altimeter you know you have some climbing to do in 200 meters—you’ve trained innumerable times on this section before today—race day, year 2027. The flexible, biodegradable biometric sensors implanted in your quads, brain, and love handles offer a heads up display in the accelerometer-sensitive helmet/photochromatic eye visor as you begin your 1,700 meter ascent. Your wattage over the past hour of power has been 297w (3.97 w/kg).
The heads up dashboard shows that the carbs you incinerated over the past 60 minutes came from muscle carbohydrate (glycogen), blood sugar (fed, in part, by the carb pellet you’ve ingested every 20 minutes during the past 60), stored glucose released from your liver, and recycled lactate. The primary source of the fat thrown into the flames has been intramuscular—the white marbling seen in the raw bison steak you had two nights earlier.
You’re approaching 1:45 of seat time and are contemplating T2, and then the final climb of the run, affectionately dubbed “The Widowmaker”. It’s time to implement Plan BHB and slam some pre-formed ketone pellets—switching to an alternative energy source. What is going to happen? [continued in link below]
Special thanks to TJ Murphy and LAVA magazine for the permission to publish this excerpt. Be sure to check out the full podcast, entitled: KETONES: A TRIATHLETE’S NEW SUPERFUEL? http://lavamagazine.com/ketones-a-triathletes-new-superfuel/
And don't miss Anthony's recent Ketone Supplement podcast discussion excerpt here:
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About the Author: Anthony L. Almada, MSc., FISSN, is a cofounder and Fellow of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, and Founder and CEO of Vitargo Global Sciences, Inc.
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