Scientists in Canada have found that ketone supplements don't improve performance after all and could actually make it worse.

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Study: Ketone Supplements Don't Improve Performance

Many athletes, especially cyclists and runners take energy drinks or powders known as ketones to help improve their performance before a race. Well, now scientists from Canada have found these supplements don't work and could actually be making athletes perform worse in a study published in the international journal of sports, nutrition and exercise metabolism. Wow, that's quite the name for a magazine. Scientists found athletes who took ketone drinks before a race actually performed worse on average compared to those who took a placebo. The study also showed the ketone supplements made them gassy and slowed their heart rates. It's funny when I saw this headline, the first thing I thought was a tour de France because you always see the cyclist chugging these key to energy drinks and turns out especially in this study, if you took a placebo, you actually had a better result than when you were chugging these drinks down, which is the opposite clearly of what they want. They say look, obviously more research needs to be done. But you're right. In many cases, those who were not taking any ketone whatsoever were performing better. On many cases, I think about 20% in certain that a lot, especially in a range, it is huge because again, you're taking this to sort of help you in these races. Um, so, yeah, now, basically everything's been thrown out the window. Now about what you do before you go. They did say though, if you, if you, uh, if you've done multiple races and you're using it sort of as a thing to sort of help you recover at the end of the day, maybe there might be some benefits to supplement, not like something that you would do before the race to sort of give you that kick and energy that you think you would need to know.