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Show Notes
- Adaptation basics: Insulin falls quickly when carbs drop; fat oxidation ramps; training quality often dips in week 1, then rebounds as the system resets.
- Race-day fueling for keto-adapted athletes: Keep your usual LCHF diet right to race day; the gain came from a single pre-start carb bolus (~60 g)—not from a 2-day “carb-load.”
- Mechanism lens: Performance lift aligns with stabilising the small glucose pool (liver/blood), not “packing” the large pool (muscle glycogen).
- Intensity myth check: With proper adaptation, short high-intensity work can hold steady; the body leans on fat further up the intensity range than old models suggested.
- Ketone supplements: As a pre-exercise boost, results are mixed to null; the next real use-case is likely recovery/brain—watch that space.
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