Restoring muscle glycogen

you still restore glycogen stores when short on carbs. you simply can’t expect any supercompensation which is one of the key adaptions performance oriented athletes are seeking.

Even when on a low carb diet with 100-150g/day you see this restoration. However, you will have a higher storage of intramuscular fat, which is a valuable engery source as well.

Different when you’re on keto. There it is suggested that glycogen stores are normalized due to enhanced gluconeogenesis. Furthermore, blood glucose can be synthesised via a variety of other substrates ( https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/ajpendo.00397.2012 ). Therefore, highly fat adapted elite ultraendurance runners to not differ that much w/r to glycogen storage:

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Volek et al 2016

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