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NUTRIENTS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu10010037
Keywords
glucose; fat oxidation; exogenous; fatty acids; hepatic glucose output
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- Lucozade Ribena Suntory Ltd., Uxbridge, U.K.
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Carbohydrate (CHO) ingestion during exercise lasting less than three hours improves endurance exercise performance but there is still debate about the optimal dose. We utilised stable isotopes and blood metabolite profiles to further examine metabolic responses to CHO (glucose only) ingestion in the 20-64 gh(-1) range, and to determine the association with performance outcome. In a double-blind, randomized cross-over design, male cyclists (n = 20, mean +/- SD, age 34 +/- 10 years, mass 75.8 +/- 9 kg, peak power output 394 +/- 36 W, VO2max 62 +/- 9 mLkg(-1)min(-1)) completed four main experimental trials. Each trial involved a two-hour constant load ride (185 +/- 25 W) followed by a time trial, where one of three CHO beverages, or a control (water), were administered every 15 min, providing 0, 20, 39 or 64 g CHOh(-1). Dual glucose tracer techniques, indirect calorimetry and blood analyses were used to determine glucose kinetics, exogenous CHO oxidation (EXO), endogenous CHO and fat oxidation; and metabolite responses. Regression analysis revealed that total exogenous CHO oxidised in the second hour of exercise, and suppression of serum NEFA concentration provided the best prediction model of performance outcome. However, the model could only explain similar to 19% of the variance in performance outcome. The present data demonstrate that consuming similar to 40 gh(-1) of CHO appears to be the minimum ingestion rate required to induce metabolic effects that are sufficient to impact upon performance outcome. These data highlight a lack of performance benefit and few changes in metabolic outcomes beyond an ingestion rate of 39 gh(-1). Further work is required to explore dose-response effects of CHO feeding and associations between multiple metabolic parameters and subsequent performance outcome.
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