KETONES. The new super petrol
With the Giro, the high mountains again and the riders of skin, bone, muscles, lungs and a lot of little fat. They seem ill, but perform like no other. How do they do it and have those Englishmen really a secret agent of 2.700 euros per liter?
There is a story circulating in the cycling peloton concering Team Sky that since 2011 they would send a courier to the home of riders with a special nutrition. No potatoes and vegetables, but a revolutionary energy drink, a kind of super petrol which you would simultaneously lose weight and get more energy. ΔG or DELTAG the name, it costs a bundle - 2,700 euro per liter, if it was even on the market, wich it isnt. Sky would use it as the only team in the peloton, as part of a special nutrition program that was set up for the London Games. Ketones are the active ingredient of ΔG, which is no doping, but which belongs to the nutraceuticals. That is a contraction of food (nutrition) and medicine (pharmaceuticals). Functional food so eat it pursues a specific purpose in the body.
The energy drink was invented at the University of Oxford, in particular, of the Clarke Group, named after Professor Kieran Clarke, who led the investigation into ketones. After a few minor references on specialized websites, ketones is kept under the radar, which plays into the hands of the men of Sky. On asking for further explanation about their ketonendrankje already was no answer.
It's a super petrol, a secret agent? The fact is that they already suspect Sky 'something' extra. That is partly due to the toned Chris Froome: put them in rags on a boat on the sea and he gets asylum for humanitarian reasons. Therefore asked the whole peloton in 2013 where cycling skeleton hell had taken away that power, 23 days at a stretch, to win the Tour?