Trial reportJournal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition2017
The influence of D-ribose ingestion and fitness level on performance and recovery.
Trial report in Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Eight weeks of aerobic exercise, but not four, improves insulin sensitivity and cardiovascular performance in young women.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Effect of D-ribose supplementation on delayed onset muscle soreness induced by plyometric exercise in college students.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2020Trial
- Dietary supplementation with D-ribose enhances growth performance, improves serum antioxidant capacity, and inhibits rumen microbial LuxS/AI-2 quorum sensing of Hu sheep.Animal bioscience · 2026Article
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- Residues of the ribose binding site are required for human ribokinase activity.Journal of structural biology: X · 2025Article
- Oral ribose supplementation in dystroglycanopathy: A single case study.JIMD reports · 2024Article
- D-ribose metabolic disorder and diabetes mellitus.Molecular biology reports · 2024Review
- Oleic acid as potential immunostimulant in metabolism pathways of hybrid grouper fingerlings (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus × Epinephelus lanceolatus) infected with Vibrio vulnificus.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Ribose Intake as Food Integrator: Is It a Really Convenient Practice?Biomolecules · 2022Review
- Mitochondrial bioenergetics and D-ribose in HFpEF: a brief narrative review.Annals of translational medicine · 2021Review
- D-ribose: Potential clinical applications in congestive heart failure and diabetes, and its complications (Review).Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2021Review
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- Potential use of ubiquinol and d-ribose in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2020Review
- The combination of ribose and adenine promotes adenosine release and attenuates the intensity and frequency of epileptiform activity in hippocampal slices: Evidence for the rapid depletion of cellular ATP during electrographic seizures.Journal of neurochemistry · 2018Article
- ISSN exercise & sports nutrition review update: research & recommendations.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundSkeletal muscle adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels are severely depleted during and following prolonged high intensity exercise. Recovery from these lower ATP levels can take days, which can affect performance on subsequent days of exercise. Untrained individuals often suffer the stress and consequences of acute, repeated bouts of exercise by not having the ability to perform or recovery sufficiently to exercise on subsequent days. Conversely, trained individuals may be able to recover more quickly due to their enhanced metabolic systems. D-Ribose (DR) has been shown to enhance the recovery in ATP; however, it is not known if recovery and performance can be benefitted with DR ingestion. Therefore, this study was designed to determine what influence DR might have on muscular performance, recovery, and metabolism during and following a multi-day exercise regimen.
methodsThe study was a double blind, crossover study in 26 healthy subjects compared 10 g/day of DR to 10 g/day of dextrose (DEX, control). All subjects completed 2 days of loading with either DR or DEX, followed by 3 additional days of supplementation and during these 3 days of supplementation, each subject underwent 60 min of high intensity interval exercise in separate daily sessions, which involved cycling (8 min of exercise at 60% and 2 min at 80% VO
resultsMean and peak PO increased significantly from day 1 to day 3 for the DR trial compared to DEX in the LVO
conclusionDR supplementation in the lower VO
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