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Post, T.E.* ; Schmitz, J.* ; Denney, C.* ; De Gioannis, R.* ; Weiß, H.* ; Pesta, D.* ; Peter, A. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Haufe, S.* ; Tegtbur, U.* ; Frings-Meuthen, P.* ; Ewald, A.C.* ; Aeschbach, D.* ; Jordan, J.*

Oral fructose intake does not improve exercise, visual, or cognitive performance during acute normobaric hypoxia in healthy humans.

Front. Nutr. 10:1170873 (2023)
Postprint DOI PMC
Open Access Gold
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INTRODUCTION: The ability to metabolize fructose to bypass the glucose pathway in near-anaerobic conditions appears to contribute to the extreme hypoxia tolerance of the naked-mole rats. Therefore, we hypothesized that exogenous fructose could improve endurance capacity and cognitive performance in humans exposed to hypoxia. METHODS: In a randomized, double-blind, crossover study, 26 healthy adults (9 women, 17 men; 28.8 ± 8.1 (SD) years) ingested 75 g fructose, 82.5 g glucose, or placebo during acute hypoxia exposure (13% oxygen in a normobaric hypoxia chamber, corresponding to oxygen partial pressure at altitude of ~3,800 m) on separate days. We measured exercise duration, heart rate, SpO2, blood gasses, and perceived exertion during a 30-min incremental load test followed by Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue (FM-100) color vision testing and the unstable tracking task (UTT) to probe eye-hand coordination performance. RESULTS: Exercise duration in hypoxia was 21.13 ± 0.29 (SEM) min on fructose, 21.35 ± 0.29 min on glucose, and 21.35 ± 0.29 min on placebo (p = 0.86). Heart rate responses and perceived exertion did not differ between treatments. Total error score (TES) during the FM-100 was 47.1 ± 8.0 on fructose, 45.6 ± 7.6 on glucose and 53.3 ± 9.6 on placebo (p = 0.35) and root mean square error (RMSE) during the UTT was 15.1 ± 1.0, 15.1 ± 1.0 and 15.3 ± 0.9 (p = 0.87). DISCUSSION: We conclude that oral fructose intake in non-acclimatized healthy humans does not acutely improve exercise performance and cognitive performance during moderate hypoxia. Thus, hypoxia tolerance in naked mole-rats resulting from oxygen-conserving fructose utilization, cannot be easily reproduced in humans.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
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Schlagwörter Cognitive Performance ; Exercise Performance ; Fructose ; Normobaric Hypoxia ; Visual Performance; Rat Heterocephalus-glaber; Young Subjects; Tolerance; Glucose; Sucrose; Brain; Taste
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2296-861X
e-ISSN 2296-861X
Quellenangaben Band: 10, Heft: , Seiten: , Artikelnummer: 1170873 Supplement: ,
Verlag Frontiers
Verlagsort Lausanne
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM)
Helmholtz AI - DLR (HAI - DLR)
Förderungen Aeronautics and Space Programs of the German Aerospace Center