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Self Experiments In the Biochemically Unoptimized State

Mastering Nutrition

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How to Keep a Train Running

The only way that you're going to keep the train running is if you can shuttle the passengers off and get them to the next one. So you can think of glycolysis as a main line. The electrons move from glucose to cytosolic NAD+, which then forms mitochondrial NADH, meaning the passengers are now loaded onto the mitochondrial NAD+. transport line. Now they have to be delivered to the respiratory chain, forming mitochondrial NAD+ to keep the mitochondrial lane running. In slow-twitch muscle fibers, for example, during a zone 2 cardio workout, your slow- twitch muscle fibers will consume the lactate made by the fast- Twitch muscle fibers. But this comes at the expense

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