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It's>>296788here again. The only real way to get some benefit from carb loading during a endurance event is if you're already skinny with extremely low body fat as it is. If you have really low BF, the body is going to catabolize the muscles for energy. So loading carbs during the event would provide readily available energy, would simulate what fat stores are for, and help to not eat away at the muscles. Taking in fast dissolving carbs during a marathon at a normal, fit body fat percentage (10-15%) would do nothing to help burn fat faster, but it would give you a tremendous energy boost. Carbs are the preferred fuel to burn as they're the easiest to break down, the body will go through those stores first, then turn to fat stores, then turn to breaking down protein. Obviously it's more complicated then that, but that's a good general way to say it. When you burn through your muscle glycogen first and are running on body fat stores, then introduce a quick dissolving carbohydrate (ie energy gels), the body will switch back to it's preferred fuel.
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