Consuming carbohydrates during or before exercise attenuates the rise in stress hormones like cortisol and limits exercise-induced immunosuppression.

“consuming carbohydrate but not glutamine or other amino acids during exercise attenuated the rise which mean it put a ceiling on the rise in stress hormones such as cortisol and it appears to limit the degree of exercise induced immunosuppression at least for non-fatiguing bouts of exercise”

“having more carbohydrates in your diet especially consuming them during exercise resulted in a improvement in stress hormones after exercise i think it's hard for anyone to argue that carbohydrates don't have a benefit in situations like this these are the benefits of carbohydrates you don't want post-exercise immune suppression you don't want post-exercise huge spikes in cortisol this will limit your progress long term having carbohydrates helps with this”

“consuming carbohydrate but not glutamine or other amino acids during exercise attenuates the rise in stress hormones such as cortisol appears to limit the degree of exercise-induced immune suppression at least for non-fatiguing bouts of exercise”

“consuming carbohydrates during exercise attenuates rise in stress hormones such as cortisol appears to limit the degree of exercise-induced immunosuppression”

“consuming carbohydrate but not glutamine or other amino acids during exercise attenuates the rise in stress hormones meaning that the stress hormones went up less such as cortisol and appears to limit the degree of exercised induced imuno supression at least for non-fatiguing bouts of exercise”