Originally Posted by
DannoXYZ
I'm talking about the athletes who use MD and why they use it.
Really? When are we going to hear about that? Because all I've seen are crap studies published in journals of dubious credibility. The one study that involved cyclists didn't seem to focus on long-chain maltodextrin, but rather fructose. And the protocol was so completely ridiculous (drinking 95oz of liquid over a 2-hour period while riding on a trainer at 50% of max power) that I'm surprised
anyone would publish it, let alone have the balls to draw conclusions based on it...
The abstract of the study done on runners was interesting, since it
seems to suggest that high concentrations of maltodextrin exit the stomach
slower than lower concentrations or those that also include glucose or fructose. A bit difficult to draw any real conclusions without the complete text of the study, though.