Endurance athletes exert a massive amount of physical stress on their bodies during a race.  During a race, energy substrates are depleted to which their metabolism should adapt. After such a race, they must recover back to normal before attempting to exercise for the next race. It is extremely important that they recover as quickly as possible to maximize exercise between races. What to do :  how the metabolism is altered by a marathon to develop new products to speed up recovery ? They sent you samples from athletes before and after a race to perform a metabolomics analysis on.

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Endurance athletes exert a massive amount of physical stress on their bodies during a race.  During a race, energy substrates are depleted to which their metabolism should adapt. After such a race, they must recover back to normal before attempting to exercise for the next race. It is extremely important that they recover as quickly as possible to maximize exercise between races.

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how the metabolism is altered by a marathon to develop new products to speed up recovery ? They sent you samples from athletes before and after a race to perform a metabolomics analysis on.

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Marathon is a type of aerobic exercise in which one needs to run over a long distance. There are certain changes in the metabolism of athletes after a race gets completed.

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Several studies have been conducted, which shows the change occurs in the metabolic state of an athlete before the race and afterwards. According to the studies, the athletes need to exercise, which causes carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins' catabolic reactions. These are the chemical compounds that cause the rise in the energy supply within the runners. An athlete uses a high amount of energy, leading to a very high protein degradation rate, causing a lot of oxidative stress in the body.

It has been shown that after the race, the number of certain chemicals, which includes glucosamine and n-acetyl glucosamine, is decreased. However, an increased level of a certain metabolite of caffeine, theobromine, and some include theophylline is observed. It can be said that these metabolites can provide energy by doing the metabolism of lipids and exercising after the race.

 
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