Here’s an interesting one that I don’t think upends what we already know, but one of the quotes jumped out at me, and I appreciate how the study looked things invitro at a cellular level, not just at athletic measures of performance which could vary due to all number of factors.
Media summary here:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-saturated-fat-body.html
Study here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47843-y
The quote from the media report that grabbed my attention was:
"The team, led by Professor Dana Dawson, also found that in athletes, saturated fat is used intensely for physical activity as the “preferred source of energy.”
I’ll read through the full study later, and I’m not saying it’s anything earth shattering (surprise, exercise helps change the way sedentary chronic disease individuals respond), but I’m curious where and how the reporter came across the phrase as saturated fat being the preferred source of energy.
Maybe I’ll cut 50% butter into my maurten gels…