Episode 39A - How much carbohydate should I consume during training or a race? | Prof. Asker Jeukendrup
Fueling Endurance - Nutrition for Runners, Cyclists & Triathletes
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Does It Really Improve Performance?
The only thing that we were left with was it had to be something absorption-related. We then started to look at, okay, is there something we can do about it? Can we speed up absorption? And by working with different types of carbohydrates that use different transporters in the gut, we were able to find ways. So once we had established that, it was like, okay, now we know a mechanism how to improve this. What's the best way to do it? What combination of carbohydrates and how much should we give?"
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