🚴♂️ Breakfast may not “top up” liver glycogen as quickly as you might think.
Excited to share our new study, now online (in press) in the American Journal of Physiology – Endocrinology and Metabolism:
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Breakfast consumption does not rapidly increase liver or muscle glycogen content in well-trained cyclists | American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism | American Physiological Society
A carbohydrate-rich breakfast is commonly consumed by cyclists to compensate for an overnight decline in liver glycogen content and, as such, to maximize liver glycogen stores in the hours prior to ex...