By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. A new study from France shows that an intermittent 13 hour night-time fast after intense workouts on alternate days helps athletes exercise longer and faster (Med Sci Sports Exerc, April 2016;48(4):663-72). This is an impeccable study in which 21 trained competitive endurance athletes were randomly divided into two groups and all…
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Taking extra fat during long distance running or cycling races will not help you to go faster or win the race. When you exercise intensely, your muscles burn mostly sugar and the more intensely you race, the greater the percentage of sugar that your muscles use. Researchers in Australia gave nicotinic…
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Taking extra fat during long distance running or cycling races will not help you to go faster or win the race. When you exercise intensely, your muscles burn mostly sugar and the more intensely you race, the greater the percentage of sugar that your muscles use. Researchers in Australia gave nicotinic…
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Endurance athletes know that they need to take some form of sugar during competition in sports that last more than 70 minutes of all-out effort. Researchers at the University of Bath in England have just shown that cyclists exercise with less effort and have less gut irritation from drinks made with…
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