Sun, Mar-04-18, 15:39
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Plan: VLC, mostly meat
Stats: 202/200/165
BF:
Progress: 5%
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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It's my understanding that all TdF cyclists are top level athletes. If 400m/30minutes, then 4km/5hours. I doubt that pace can be maintained longer than 30 minutes, but the advantage would stick, cuz all riders' paces can't be maintained either on longer than 30 minutes.
It's very likely that the advantage disappears if, a) all riders do it, and/or b) riders already eat a ketogenic diet.
So, the clip talks about a new field of investigation, and cites a few things about health. Right up my alley for this next point. I've said it before. Injecting or ingesting ketones can be a diagnostic tool to expose an underlying condition that otherwise prevents run-of-the-mill low-carb from working as it should, i.e. to quickly and effortlessly induce ketosis.
If we're doing LC as best we know, and ketones still show low or virtually nil, we already suspect there's a problem. Injecting/ingesting ketones will simply confirm our suspicion. Thing is, there's no protocol I know of, with ketone levels, level drop rates, etc, in similar fahion to an OGTT where we ingest a set amount of glucose, then test BG at fixed intervals, measure peak levels and drop rates. So, what if it only boosts by a small amount, or not at all? What if it boosts a high amount, but level drop rate is very quick? Or, and I hope for this, what if it boosts blood ketones by a high amount and this level is maintained just by eating LC afterwards?
Besides a diagnostic tool, it can probably be used to quickly return to ketosis after an unexpected or even intentional cheat.
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