LIVSTEADY: The Smarter Way to Fuel
LIVSTEADY
UCAN’s proprietary low-glycemic carbohydrate, LIVSTEADY™ (formerly known as SuperStarch) is real food, not just an energy booster. Its complex structure means our body releases its energy slowly, so there's no quick sugar spike like with simple carbs. LIVSTEADY® is only found in UCAN products.
Blood Sugar and Exercise
LIVSTEADY is unlike any other fuel—clinically proven to deliver steady energy, prevent sugar crashes, and enhance fat burn during exercise. While sugary fuels spike blood sugar and trigger insulin, LIVSTEADY keeps your body in balance by maintaining stable blood sugar levels. This allows you to efficiently burn both fat and carbs when needed.
What are the benefits of LIVSTEADY®?
Long-Lasting Energy
Fast-acting carbohydrates leave the system very quickly because of a big insulin surge. LIVSTEADY provides long-lasting and stable energy with no crash, so you don’t have to constantly take in fuel during your exercise.
Easy On The Stomach
LIVSTEADY has a low osmolality, which means your stomach is able to handle its molecules relatively quickly – this results in less “sloshing around” your stomach during exercise or activities.
High-Fat Burning Potential
LIVSTEADY® helps your body burn more fat by keeping blood sugar stable and insulin low. Since fat tissue is sensitive to insulin, lower insulin levels allow your muscles to use fat for fuel instead of relying on the carbohydrates you eat.
Clinical Trials
Multiple peer-reviewed, published clinical trials have proven that LIVSTEADY is a superior fuel source, delivering long-lasting energy, maintaining stable blood sugar, and outperforming the carbohydrates commonly used in sports nutrition. Dive into the science to learn more.
LIVSTEADY™ Endurance Cycling Study
In the first clinical trial on LIVSTEADY™ for athletes, ten highly trained cyclists ingested either LIVSTEADY™ or Maltodextrin while providing blood and expired gas samples every 15 and 30 min, respectively, before, during, and after exercise. The major outcome variables were glucose, insulin, fatty acids, glycerol, and fat oxidation during and after exercise. There was a rapid increase in blood glucose immediately after the ingestion of Maltodextrin pre- and post-exercise, which was significantly attenuated by LIVSTEADY™.
In a similar manner, serum insulin levels were markedly higher after Maltodextrin compared to LIVSTEADY™. Peak insulin levels were more than 8-fold higher after ingestion of Maltodextrin compared to LIVSTEADY™.
LIVSTEADY™ was associated with greater fat breakdown during exercise and recovery as indicated by significantly increased serum non-esterified fatty acids and glycerol levels. There was also a trend for lower respiratory exchange ratios in the LIVSTEADY™ trial compared to Maltodextrin indicating increased oxidation of fat.
In summary, the findings from this carefully controlled experiment confirmed our belief that LIVSTEADY™ would significantly alter metabolic responses to exercise and promote more efficient utilization of fat while maintaining blood glucose levels.
Read MoreLIVSTEADY™ Endurance Running Study
The consumption of a single bolus of CHO beverage prior to a 3hr run elicits significant alterations in energy metabolism compared to just water, with slow CHO (LIVSTEADY™) burning significantly less total carbohydrate and more fat than a rapidly digested (Maltodextrin) carbohydrate. The LIVSTEADY™ CHO provided a more stable and consistent energy metabolism profile, in addition to the most stable glucose concentration during the run. These findings provide evidence that slow absorption CHO (LIVSTEADY™) provides consistent blood glucose and sustained exogenous energy supply during a sustained 3-hr endurance run when given in a single bolus.
Read MoreLIVSTEADY™ Soccer Skills Performance Study
The ingestion of LIVSTEADY™ in comparison with dextrose before and at halftime of a simulated soccer match attenuated the decline seen in soccer skills during the second half of the match and lowered RER throughout most of the match suggesting a possible carbohydrate sparing effect.
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