When your body gets used to burning fat for fuel, it becomes better at using fat by turning up the systems that break it down and use it for energy.
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When your body gets used to burning fat for fuel, it becomes better at using fat by turning up the systems that break it down and use it for energy.
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Fat adaptation increases the cellular capacity to metabolize and utilize fatty acids as a primary fuel source by upregulating the metabolic machinery involved in fatty acid oxidation.
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Study: Low carbohydrate, high fat diet impairs exercise economy and negates the performance benefit from intensified training in elite race walkers
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