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hippy in reply to @Jimmy_Fingers

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2017.00806/full

I can't find the study but the latest I read was that they impair or do nothing for performance but assisted in recovery somehow. More work needs to be done.

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greentricky in reply to @hippy

Apparently some teams have spent up to $100k on them for the tour so they must think they do something as its a lot for a bad tasting placebo

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hippy in reply to @greentricky

If it does indeed help recovery then on a multi-day race that's as good as gold. My point was that the study eliminated or at least cast doubt on any performance improvements whilst riding, ie. necking a bottle ain't gonna knock 1min off your 25 PB.

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