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Post-Workout Ketone Salts Could Augment Your Gains, New Study Suggests - How Convincing is the Latest Evidence?

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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...

Ketone Ester Supplement Boosts Trainees' Post-Exercise Glycogen Repletion by 18% in Insulin-Clamp Study, But...

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For the average gymrat, the 18% increase in glycogen repletion PWO is 100% irrelevant and the amounts of glucose you'd need to facilitate it (even w/ ketones) would do more harm than good to your health and physique goals. Who would have thought that? A ketone ester drink ramps up the already elevated insulin levels you'll see after the post-workout ingestion of a bolus of glucose. Probably everyone who doesn't vilify insulin and believes blindly in the label claims of supplement producers. After all,  D-β-hydroxybutyrate has long been known to promote insulin secretion in animals - two decades ago Laughlin et al. were among the first to realize their insulinogenic prowess (Lauglin 1994). Even before Laughlin et al. researchers suspected that the ketone-body-induced increases in insulin will go hand in hand with a significant increase in glycogen synthesis as it has been observed in vitro 40 years ago by Maizels et al (1977). What would be  news, though, is the fact ...
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