Nutrition & Metabolism (Aug 2004)

Ketogenic diets and physical performance

  • Phinney SD

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Vol. 1
p. 2

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Impaired physical performance is a common but not obligate result of a low carbohydrate diet. Lessons from traditional Inuit culture indicate that time for adaptation, optimized sodium and potassium nutriture, and constraint of protein to 15-25 % of daily energy expenditure allow unimpaired endurance performance despite nutritional ketosis.

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