Why you should supplement with Carbohydrate supplements

Carbohydrates serve several purposes in the human body:

The most basic role of carbohydrate is to supply sustainable energy. The human body gets its energy from splitting off glucose molecules into smaller compounds and oxidizing them to form water, which frees quite a large amount of energy.

💧can be found in the blood and extracellular fluids, and can be made from glycogen

🧠 glycogen is stored in the liver and muscles and in smaller amounts in the other organs and tissues of the body.

Fuel for the Muscular System

Carbohydrates provide the major fuel for muscular exercise. The muscles use the glycogen present in the muscle cells and glucose in the bloodstream. However, glycogen from the muscles is more efficiently used than glucose because the breakdown of glycogen for use does not require energy input at the time, whereas a certain amount of energy is used to bring the blood sugar into the metabolic system of the muscles.

The body works much more efficiently from carbohydrate intake than from broken-down body protein and fats because protein and fat molecules, when used as fuel, yield less than their total caloric value in the form the muscles can use. The remaining portion is used for the conversion of these molecules into suitable fuel. This conversion takes place in the liver and adipose tissue, which supply the body’s organs with fuel via the bloodstream.

Carbs for the brain

The brain uses more glucose than any other organ or tissue in the body at rest. Thus, when carbs are dropped, you're going to feel it.

When carbohydrates are reduced for an extended period of time, your body will begin to produce ketone bodies. Ketone bodies are your brain's alternate fuel source. Some people seem to feel perfectly fine running off ketone bodies, while others feel miserable. They're unable to concentrate, tired all the time, and they just don't feel 'present' as normal. How people deal with running on a tank full of ketones tends to vary, so you might have to dramatically decrease your carbs to know for certain.

Some people proclaim that getting into ketosis is the best thing they've ever done and that they have endless energy, but this is definitely not the norm. For every person that feels great, you'll find one or more who are struggling to sustain such a limited diet. If you decide to try low-carb dieting, be careful: it can influence your focus, concentration, and your performance at school or work.

Keep carbs in your diet

Some dieters don't mind reducing their workouts and doing the bare minimum to maintain lean muscle mass. If you're only performing a few compound lifts per workout, then you won't necessarily need a shipload of carbs to complete your training. Roughly 10 grams of carbs for every four sets lifted should be sufficient to keep your muscle glycogen levels high enough for resistance training.

However, if you want to maintain fairly intense workouts throughout your fat-loss program, you'll need carbs for training energy. Since carbohydrates are directly related to your ability to recover after working out, you'll find that you grow weaker and weaker following each and every training session. If you crave intense workouts and push yourself to the limit, an extremely low-carb diet is not going to be fun. If you can forgo extremely intense, long workouts, then you can be more flexible with your carb intake. Just don't cut them out if you need to train insane.

So you may be thinking to yourself if all those keto, and low carb or carb free diets were even worth it. The honest answer is yes,and no. Here's why our body needs the carbs to be used as fuel and to supply your body with fuel itr can burn instead of burning unnecessary muscle, or depleting your body by causing your body fat to go too low. Your body will keep burning the carbs until there is none to burn,and will eventually start using your hard earned muscle to use as fuel.

Beneficial scientific sources of evidence

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/carbohydrate-research/vol/498/suppl/C

Link for Karbolyn clinical study

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What carb supplements should I use?

Here at total nutrition we recommend that everyone that is looking for a carb supplement, or just using it as a long maintainable energy source should use karbolyn. Karbolyn will help the absorption of nutrients,vitamins,and Pre-Workout.

It will cause long sustained energy with no spike nor crash.Karbolyn is absorbed into the bloodstream like a simple sugar but without the crash caused when your muscles run out of fuel. It has also been shown to be absorbed as quickly as Pure dextrose *a simple carbohydrate* yet it still gives you sustainable energy without the crash!

Karbolyn has a positive effect on blood sugar levels. Karbolyn gave an overall decline in blood glucose,(sugar) level.

 You can find Karbolyn at Total Nutrition Online or find it in one of our 6 stores.