>You can even safely consume a Soda if you're in a glycogen depleted state such as after a marathon You “could” but that will also not help, and actually hurt,

>You can even safely consume a Soda if you're in a glycogen depleted state such as after a marathon You “could” but that will also not help, and actually hurt, with the natural inflammation from running. If you ran the marathon in ketosis, you really wouldn’t be in a “glycogen depleted State” - even though that’s what ketosis generally is - because your body and brain are primarily running on ketones and internally producing all the minimal glucose the body/brain actually require. In either case after a marathon your muscles will be catabolic, so protein is good, and of course water/electrolytes. But really it should be telling your example of using sugar responsibly is after running a marathon.