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Self Experiments In the Biochemically Unoptimized State

Mastering Nutrition

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The Effects of Fasting on Lactate Levels

When I tried to do the same thing with a higher dose of lactate, maybe the first 33 grams of carbs would have suppressed my lactate. But when I added the next 17 grams of carbs pyruvate carboxylase was maxed out. All the rest of the carbs went into lactate and so I get this erratic dancing around a lactate or doesn't really go anywhere. So it may be very much the case that I had just optimized the right degree of fasting-induced aspartate depletion with the right bolus dose of carbs. That now takes us to the transition to my randomized controlled trials where we'll see if there's any evidence for those findings.

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