DOPING MIT KETONEN BEI DER TOUR DE FRANCE?

 

Marc van Impe

The Dutch pro cycling team Jumbo-Visma is currently very successful in the Tour de France. But now there is increasing speculation about what part of these successes the use of ketone supplements in the team has.

Her driver Mike Teunissen took the yellow jersey with a victory on the first stage. They won the team time trial and had further stage wins with Dylan Groenewegen and Wout van Aert. When asked about the use of ketone supplements, team boss Richard Plugge  recently told  the daily De Telegraaf:

“Ketones are a dietary supplement. You can use them just like vitamins. The substance is not on the prohibited list. "

Richard Plugge

And Wout van Aert also confirmed to TV reporters after his victory: “Ketones are not illegal. In essence, it's just a nutritional supplement. No more and no less. I see it this way: These ketones are similar to the gels that every driver takes. Only their taste is pretty hideous. "

The Lotto-Soudal team also admitted that some drivers use ketones.
"We use them, but not in a structured way," said Dr. Servaas Bingé for the Flemish TV channel VRT.

The impetus for research came from the US military

Der Keton-Hype hat schon vor einigen Jahren – zunächst in Großbritannien – begonnen. War aber aus den USA angestoßen worden. Dort waren Ketone auf das Radar der US- Armee geraten, als das militärische Forschungsinstitut Darpa (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) nach einer kompakten, leichten und direkten Energiequelle suchte, die in heißen Umgebungen wie einer Wüste nicht verderben würde. Visit https://athletics-pharma.de/

It is well known that ketones are produced by the body itself - when the glucose stores are used up as an energy supplier and the body uses the fat reserves. Ketone bodies are three compounds that are formed in catabolic metabolic conditions in the liver from acetyl-CoA, which in turn comes from the ß-19 oxidation of fatty acids: acetoacetate, acetone and, most importantly, β-hydroxybutyrate. Read more ...