Nutritional ketone salts increase fat oxidation but impair high-intensity exercise performance in healthy adult males

Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1031-1035

  O’Malley, Trevor ^a   Myette Cote, Etienne ^a   Durrer, Cody ^a   Little, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beta hydroxybutyrate; Ketones; Ketosis; Metabolism; Substrate oxidation

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; KETONE; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; BLOOD; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; CYCLING; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPREGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ADULT; BICYCLING; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXERCISE; HUMANS; KETONES; LACTIC ACID; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UP-REGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85030214073     PISSN: 17155312     EISSN: 17155320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2016-0641     Document Type: Article

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