Around a month ago, I was alerted to Jeff Volek's involvement with a company called UCAN that markets sports drinks containing SuperStarch. I blogged on this here. The SS is touted as being made by a "patent pending" heat/moisture process. So a little digging was done by Lerner and then I followed the trail, and lo and behold, Volek himself is not on the patent app for SS -- that is the Scottish company that developed it. No, Volek's patent is (links in comments on that post):
"The present invention is directed to a method of controlling serum insulin levels in an individual, the method comprising the step of administering to the individual a food composition comprising heat and moisture treated starch (HMT starch)."
Now I questioned this in the comments. What would the meaning be of such a permit? Nobody else could administer UCAN to fat-adapted ultra-marathon runners? It makes no sense.
