Do endurance athletes benefit from taking ketone shots?
Have you experimented with HVMN Ketone IQ yet?
Built to support endurance and recovery, Ketone-IQ™️ is used by high performers of all types, from Navy SEALs and Tour de France cyclists to athletes in every major sport in the U.S.28% MORE EFFICIENT IN GENERATING ENERGY THAN GLUCOSE ALONE.115% INCREASED MEAN POWER OUTPUT AFTER RECOVERY.22% IMPROVED ATHLETES’ ENDURANCE.3
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What is Ketone-IQ™️ ?
How do I use Ketone-IQ™ for Athletic Performance?
Ketone-IQ™️ is a drinkable ketone designed to be taken daily to support mental clarity, athletic performance, and metabolic health. This drinkable ketone contains no caffeine, no sugar—just clean, natural energy to power your brain and body.
Optimal Ketone Levels for 4 Hours
Did you know that ketones provide the most benefits at a certain range? With Ketone-IQ™, you can stay at these levels for up to 4 hours — much longer than other drinkable ketones.
Benefits:
01 Taking Ketone-IQ™ can help you unlock key benefits for athletic performance. Its Ketone-IQ™ technology elevates levels of ketone in the blood, which acts as a fuel and alters the way that the body uses other fuel sources.
02 Ketones are 28% more efficient as a fuel than glucose alone (1) and doesn’t contribute to sugar crashes or insulin spikes—enabling athletes to sustain peak mental clarity during competitions
, which may also improve performance (2).
Target Blood Ketone Level: ~1.5-2.5 mmol
Endurance Athlete Protocol:
Drink 30-60 minutes before exercise with usual pre-workout fuel. For extended exercise, take an additional serving every ~2 hours.*
DOSAGE CHART: Weight -Dose- Size
- <150 lbs. 1 serving
- 150-200 lbs. 2 servings
- 200 lbs. 3 servings
Reminders:
- Blood ketone levels will be highly dependent on each individual person, their metabolism, activity level, and their dosage (timing and amount).
- Serving sizes should always be used as guidance, and blood ketone readings will always be the most accurate method of determining your own blood ketone levels and adjusting your dose accordingly.
- Do not consume more than 3 servings of Ketone-IQ™ in one day.
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RECOVERY PROTOCOL
How do I use Ketone-IQ™ for Athletic Recovery?
Benefits: 01 Ketone-IQ™ can help you bounce back faster after a tough competition or workout routine.
One study found that athletes experienced a 15% increase in power output after taking an exogenous ketone for recovery and sleep over a 3-week period (1).
Target Blood Ketone Level: ~1.5-2.5 mmol
Protocol: Drink 30 minutes after exercise, for optimal results, take Ketone-IQ™ with your gold-standard carbohydrate and protein recovery drink}. Another option is to drink 30 minutes before bed for recovery.
Sustained Energy
Ketone-IQ™️ elevates your blood ketone levels to the optimal range for a period of 3 hours.
Clean Energy
Ketone-IQ™️ delivers energy without a sugar crash or insulin spike.
Metabolic Boost
Ketone-IQ™️ elevates your ketone levels so your body runs on ketones instead of sugar, delivering better energy and sharper focus.
Effective and Safe
Ketone-IQ™️ is FDA GRAS and compliant with the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Follow-up questions added into our intro:
Leaky gut – ketogenic diet has been shown to help with leaky gut via decreasing inflammation in the gut microbiome. I would argue the same effect with Ketone-IQ and we deliberately chose to commercialise Ketone-IQ for its palatability and affordability so that people can have it throughout the day, stay in elevated ketone state, without having to adhere to a strict ketogenic diet.
Longevity and brain – Most of the studies that showed longevity specifically have been in animal models but we know for sure that as we age, our metabolism and brain health deteriorate and causes decreased quality of life. The risk of diabetes for example increases with age. Ketones have been shown to improve glycemic response in healthy AND diabetic individuals, in addition to helping them rely less on sugar for energy. In addition, the anti-inflammatory properties in ketones also help mitigate the risks of most chronic diseases caused by chronic inflammation.
In terms of brain health, ketones have been shown to decrease brain network stabilization associated with aging and the benefits of ketones in brain health are well established especially when the neurodegenerative disease is due to energy deficiency or impaired glucose metabolism. This is due to the fact that ketones can pass the BBB to produce ATP for the brain and overcome the energy deficiency.
Definition of Metabolic Flexibility – in a therapeutic sense, metabolic flexibility refers to the ability to swap substrates (e.g. from carbs to fat or vice versa) when needed in certain conditions (such as in hypoxia or low oxygen environment). In performance perspective, we often use the term metabolic flexibility when describing the extra tank of fuel that exogenous can provide in addition to the carb and fat storage in our bodies. This way our body, as an efficient machine will have the option to choose between these substrates, utilize the most efficient ones first and maintain the storage of the others to provide energy for a prolonged workout period.
Latt Mansor, DPhil
Research Lead, HVMN
Health Via Modern Nutrition Inc
Research Links:
Endurance athletes intermittently participate in overload training (e.g. training camps) or competition (e.g. multi‐stage cycling races) with the express purpose of eliciting physiological responses that are crucial for sustained performance gain. Training overload, however, must be consistently well balanced with recovery, allowing physiological repair mechanisms to produce beneficial adaptations that eventually yield performance gains (e.g. functional overreaching). Inadequate recovery, with or without other stress factors, such as sleep deprivation, negative energy balance, disease or mental fatigue, eventually can result in a maladaptive catabolic state requiring days to weeks (non‐functional overreaching), or even months (overtraining) to fully recover (Meeusen et al. 2013). Because sufficient recovery will only result in performance improvements during functional overreaching, prevention of non‐functional overreaching is pivotal in training management.
The primary indication of overreaching is a stagnation or decrease in training‐specific performance (Hooper et al. 1995; Urhausen & Kindermann, 2002). However, this is often preceded by numerous other symptoms, such as mood disturbances (Morgan et al. 1987; Killer et al. 2017) and dysregulation in various physiological systems, including the autonomic nervous system (Lehmann et al. 1998), immunity (Fry et al. 1994b) and energy metabolism (Lombardi et al. 2012). Nevertheless, previous studies have failed to identify consistent physiological outcomes (Urhausen & Kindermann, 2002; Cadegiani & Kater, 2017) that can be used to predict overtraining. In fact, the pathophysiology of overtraining remains poorly understood, which impairs the design of optimal preventive interventions (Armstrong & Vanheest, 2002; Kreher & Schwartz, 2012).
