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A Ketogenic Diet (KD) enhances endurance exercise capacity and prevents muscle injury during exhaustive exercise by altering lipid metabolism and IL-6 synthesis, though it may increase intramuscular oxidative stress.
A high-fat, low-carb diet may help endurance athletes by improving fat oxidation and preventing muscle damage, but monitor for increased oxidative stress.
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KD-fed mice showed preventive effects of obesity despite consuming more calories and displayed enhanced endurance exercise capacity without aggravated muscle injury... a KD may also alter IL-6 synthesis and secretion profile, thus contributing to fatty acid mobilization, ketolysis, and lipolysis; preventing muscle damage
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Based on mouse models.
Source
Chronic Inflammation as an Immunological Abnormality and Effectiveness of Exercise
Katsuhiko Suzuki · Biomolecules · 2019
DOI 10.3390/biom9060223
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