Long Chain Triglyceride Feeding Reduces Exercise Performance by >55% - Cambridge Scientists Find Reduced Mitochondrial Efficiacy in Rat Hearts.
Image 1: The ketogenic diet is also referred to as the long chain triglyceride diet by some dieticians (image from fingercandymedia.com) In view of the current low-carb hype, people tend to forget that, after all, carbohydrate consumption has been shown time and again to improve the performance of endurance athletes. And despite the existence of a few studies about "fat adaption" which report equal or even improved endurance performance in athletes on low carb diets, previous findings of Murray and his colleagues from the Department of Physiology, at the University of Cambridge clearly showed detrimental effects of short term high fat feeding (9 days) on the exercise capacity of rats. These results are corroborated by findings of Holloway et al. ( Holloway. 2011 ) who found cardiac high-energy phosphate metabolism and cognitive function to be impaired in healthy human subjects on a high-fat diet. Now, it is quite obvious that these findings stand in contrast to all the...