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- Published on: 11 October 2022Might enteric or intraperitoneal oxygen improve performance?Show More
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Judging from our animal studies, there is an opportunity to improve performance by supplementing hepatic oxygenation from an enteric or even a peritoneal source.
The idea might be especially appealing to the armed forces but might conceivably be applied in a manner conducive to endurance sports. In our study oxygenating just half of the gut eliminated the compensatory increase in cardiac outp...
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