Post-Workout Ketone Salts Could Augment Your Gains, New Study Suggests - How Convincing is the Latest Evidence?
Are the University of Oxford's patented ketone ester supplements really yet another "must have" supplement for your post-workout shake or are the subliminally promised increased gains unlikely, if not impossible to happen? As highlighted in my recent write-up of the "ketone supplement [allegedly] boosts glycogen (re-)synthesis" study ( read it ), there's another very recent study on the effects of a ketone ester drink during recovery from exercise. The study comes from researchers from the KU Leuven in Belgium, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and the University of Oxford - at least one of the authors, i.e. Kieran Clarke, does, therefore, have the same vested financial interest in a beneficial study outcome I've already mentioned in the discussion of the Holdsworth study . You know that, for me, that's not a reason to doubt the results of the study per se; the potential bias, however, is of particular importance when it comes...