Faster recovery convinces Olympic Committee
The NUTRIM
department of Maastricht University (The Netherlands) compared PeptoPro®
Sports (4,2 g PeptoPro® and 8,2 g carbohydrate per 100 ml) with a ‘normal’
sports drink (8,2 g carbohydrate per 100 ml). Exhausting exercise was followed
by a short recovery time of 5 hours. During this time the athletes were given
a PeptoPro® drink (330ml) every half an hour. Then followed a second training
session.
PeptoPro doubled the production of insulin after exercise and significantly
reduced plasma glucose levels, showing the uptake of the glucose into the
muscle was accelerated. The faster the glucose is taken up by the muscle, the
faster the muscle produces glycogen, as our battery is reloaded and recovered.
Even though the recovery time was very short, PeptoPro® accelerated the
maximum performance by 5% in comparison with a ‘classic’ sugar drink, which
was not significant because of the low number of only 12 athletes. These
results convinced the Dutch Olympic Committee (NOC*NSF) to such an extent that
they advised their athletes to use PeptoPro® as a recovery drink in their
preparations for and during the Olympiad in Athens 2004.
