Dr. Michael Ormsbee

Yeah. You wouldn't think so, but it's plausible.

Yeah. You wouldn't think so, but it's plausible.

Yeah. It's plausible. It's plausible. The other thing we wanted to see was maybe we needed to jostle the gut a little bit more and do running. So in a follow-up study for Dan's dissertation, he got two dissertations out of this. He went after runners, elite runners. And some of these runners were running like 14-minute 5Ks and things. Pretty good. Very fast.

Yeah. It's plausible. It's plausible. The other thing we wanted to see was maybe we needed to jostle the gut a little bit more and do running. So in a follow-up study for Dan's dissertation, he got two dissertations out of this. He went after runners, elite runners. And some of these runners were running like 14-minute 5Ks and things. Pretty good. Very fast.

After running for an hour at marathon pace. So it was a good protocol again. And we also put microdialysis probes in their belly while they're running and doing all this, which is a feat in itself because everything's jostling. So you have to tape everything down pretty good because we were also interested in what fuel were being used.

After running for an hour at marathon pace. So it was a good protocol again. And we also put microdialysis probes in their belly while they're running and doing all this, which is a feat in itself because everything's jostling. So you have to tape everything down pretty good because we were also interested in what fuel were being used.

And so Dan always would say like just because you can change the fuel use should you. Sure. So just like any other feeding studies where you limit a certain macronutrient or another, you can change what's oxidized because you're eating differently or you're exercising at a different pace or what have you. And this was the same thing with UCAN. Like we could change –

And so Dan always would say like just because you can change the fuel use should you. Sure. So just like any other feeding studies where you limit a certain macronutrient or another, you can change what's oxidized because you're eating differently or you're exercising at a different pace or what have you. And this was the same thing with UCAN. Like we could change –

The fuel that was being utilized and insulin, by the way, didn't rise. So that claim was right. It stayed low and glucose stayed quite steady. You didn't have any spikes or anything. So in the running study, it basically mimicked the cycling study, even though we were trying to jostle even more and make sure we had GI upset if we were going to see it. And it just ended up being fairly similar.

The fuel that was being utilized and insulin, by the way, didn't rise. So that claim was right. It stayed low and glucose stayed quite steady. You didn't have any spikes or anything. So in the running study, it basically mimicked the cycling study, even though we were trying to jostle even more and make sure we had GI upset if we were going to see it. And it just ended up being fairly similar.

And the fat metabolism piece didn't add much to the story, unfortunately, in that particular study. So I could see a couple of uses. It does give you sustained glucose for a long period of time. If you're in a sport by which you cannot feed for a long time, maybe it's useful. Maybe long distance swimming? Yeah.

And the fat metabolism piece didn't add much to the story, unfortunately, in that particular study. So I could see a couple of uses. It does give you sustained glucose for a long period of time. If you're in a sport by which you cannot feed for a long time, maybe it's useful. Maybe long distance swimming? Yeah.

It would be an example where you could potentially use it or sometime when you just don't want to carry a lot of fuel with you or maybe you're having, I don't know, some type of sporting activity where you're not able to eat a lot. But then we thought about pre-sleep feeding.

It would be an example where you could potentially use it or sometime when you just don't want to carry a lot of fuel with you or maybe you're having, I don't know, some type of sporting activity where you're not able to eat a lot. But then we thought about pre-sleep feeding.

Can I take it before bed and then run a faster morning race without having to wake up and eat in the middle of the night like a lot of people who run endurance races would do? So then we designed one where we took UCAN Superstar right before bed, compared that to our traditional glucose drinks.

Can I take it before bed and then run a faster morning race without having to wake up and eat in the middle of the night like a lot of people who run endurance races would do? So then we designed one where we took UCAN Superstar right before bed, compared that to our traditional glucose drinks.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we would take just regular carbohydrate or we would take the UCAN Superstar.

So we would take just regular carbohydrate or we would take the UCAN Superstar.