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The Science of Endurance: Fuel & Hydration

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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The Limiting Step in Glucose Oxidation

There was this theory for a long time that said, humans can at most only burn one gram per minute. The sodium glucas transporter could not deal with more than 60 grams per hour. What they then discovered is that if you combined glucus with fructus, the glucus could use the door and the fructus could come through the window. So now you could get both in at the same time, and then you could add the effects together max. Having previously thought there was a limit at 60 insan nowadays, iron men try, athletes top marithon runnes the ultra earth and runas are literally trying everything to teach their bodies how to get more and more and

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