
Javier Gonzalez
@gonzalez_jt
Physiologist interested in human fuel use
#nutrition | #exercise | #carbohydrate | #metabolism | #cycling | #science
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https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/javier-gonzalez 11-04-2012 21:17:25
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Do larger athletes require more carbs during exercise? We might think this is obvious right? But is it actually the case? “Why think? Do the experiment!” (John Hunter) Our latest paper in IJSNEMJournal reports on this experiment doi.org/10.1123/ijsnem… ⛽️ 🚴🏻



We previously speculated that exercise might mobilise vitamin D from adipose tissue. Adipose can contain enormous amounts of vitamin D. This didn’t seem to happen but, as we discuss in the paper, interpretation is complex and there is a lot to consider. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nb…

All testing took place during winter months to avoid confounding from UV exposure. Huge shout out to Oly Perkin & Sophie Davies, PhD, RD for navigating Covid-19 and completing a long-term intervention with repeated biopsies, blood samples for tracers (etc). It was a herculean effort.

Collectively, there seems to be a double benefit from exercise - a transient increase in key vitamin D metabolites around each bout (shown in our previous acute exercise RCT below), and longer term sustained positive effects on basal concentrations. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…



Fortunate to contribute to this edition of Annual Reviews and the timing couldn't be more serendipitous as nutrition is at the forefront of many folks' minds and there is active conversations about what future Dietary Guidelines should look like. In this review, I detail a

Please share this job opportunity to join our team: linkedin.com/jobs/view/4234… This post is related to the KETO-GENETIC Project: bath.ac.uk/projects/the-k… A flourishing collaboration between University of Bristol Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism and Imperial College London funded by Medical Research Council



Jose Antonio PhD Congratulations from all of us at the other sports nutrition journal 👍
