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Keto-Adapted, Carb-Smart: What Actually Helps on Race Day - with Dr Matthew Carpenter & Prof Paul Laursen

Keto-Adapted, Carb-Smart: What Actually Helps on Race Day - with Dr Matthew Carpenter & Prof Paul Laursen

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🥓🔬 KETOGENIC ADAPTATION, CARBS & PERFORMANCE — WHAT THE SCIENCE SAYS ⚡

Prof Paul Laursen talks with Dr Matthew Carpenter about what changes (and what doesn’t) when endurance athletes go low-carb and stay there. We get into insulin’s rapid drop, the early-week training dip, the liver’s “small glucose pool,” and why a simple pre-start carb hit can still move the needle, even when you’re fat-adapted.

Inside this episode:

📉 Insulin’s rapid drop when switching to low-carb diets
🔥 How Fat oxidation takes over & why performance may dip week 1
🍞 Carbohydrate feeding strategies: when they help even for ketogenic athletes

#TrainingSciencePodcast #HIITScience #KetogenicDiet #LowCarbohydrate #SportsNutrition #MetabolicHealth #EnergyMetabolism #ExercisePhysiology #CarbohydrateFeeding #MuscleGlycogen #LiverGlycogen #BloodGlucose #EnduranceAthletes #KetoneSupplementation #PerformanceAdaptation #SportsScience #Mitochondria #NutritionScience #AthleteFueling #CognitiveFunction #NeurologicalHealth

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Today’s speakers:

Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/

Dr Matthew Carpenter https://x.com/MattCarpenter14

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References:

Carbs help fat-adapted performance

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261561425001700

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