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February 9, 2021 53 mins

Glucose and fructose are commonly ingested to improve endurance performance during a workout, but what effect do different mixtures of these two substances have on subsequent endurance performances? In other words, if you are training twice in one day, is it better to take in just glucose, or glucose and fructose? We asked Dr. Tim Podlogar what he learned during his study on the Impact of Post-Exercise Fructose-Maltodextrin Ingestion on Subsequent Endurance Performance, and what he still wants to know on this topic.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

00:00:00 - Podcast begins

00:00:45 - Dr. Tim Podlogar’s educational and sporting background

00:03:00 - What question Dr. Podlogar was trying to answer with this study

00:03:26 - How Glucose and Fructose are different from each other

00:03:59 -

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