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Advice to anyone who wants to use ribose...
As a dietary supplement, ribose is marketed to athletes involved in sports
requiring repeated bouts of high-intensity activity, such as weight lifting,
sprinting, or soccer.
According to Bioenergy, Inc., a company that sells, and also owns
several patents on, ribose, "whether you're just feeling sluggish
and rundown, or suffer from poor cardiovascular health, or you're a high
performance athlete looking for that extra edge, BIOENERGY Ribose is truly
The Absolute Energy Source".
Ribose
Ribose is used to generate ATP (short for adenosine triphosphate). In
theory, supplementing your diet with additional ribose should increase
the rate at which ATP is generated, leading to an improvement in exercise
performance and faster muscle growth.
Before you read on, it's important to understand a little more about
what ATP is, and the role it plays in exercise performance. Just like
every country has its own currency, your body has its own "energy
currency" — known as adenosine triphosphate, or ATP for short.
ATP is constantly being broken down and "recreated". In the
process, it provides energy for every move you make and every chemical
reaction that occurs in your body.
The adenine portion of adenine triphosphate consists of one molecule
of adenine and the five-carbon sugar, ribose. The triphosphate portion
of ATP consists of three phosphate molecules.
Energy is released when one of those phosphates is broken off from ATP.
The compound then becomes adenosine diphosphate (ADP), which consists
of adenosine and two phosphate molecules. ADP becomes adenosine monophosphate
(AMP) when another phosphate molecule is broken off.
ATP
The ratio between ATP, ADP and AMP is critical in regulating the energy
content of a cell. However, during high-intensity exercise, the cell is
unable to "recreate" ATP fast enough. Under these conditions,
the concentrations of ADP and AMP rise, leading to a reduction in the
"energy charge" of the cell.
If ATP use continues to exceed the rate at which it can be generated,
nucleotides are lost from the cell in an attempt to restore the ratio
between ATP, ADP and AMP.
Replacing these lost adenine nucleotides can take several days, reducing
the rate at which muscle fibers are repaired. Supplemental ribose can
increase the speed at which these nucleotides are replaced, both at rest
and during exercise [9]. As such, there has been a great deal of interest
in the potential of ribose supplements to boost muscular performance in
sports...
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