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Ever happened to you? It is rare but may one day have sweated much notice you sweat smells like ammonia. Muscle metabolism produces small amounts of ammonia in the process of deamination of amino acids, but it usually clears the circulatory system and our sense of smell does not notice.
But if we have a diet low in carbohydrates or doing some kind of sports reserves exhausted, there will be greater involvement of the amino acids in energy metabolism, creating more ammonia in the mind and body may not be able to debug completely, becoming more noticeable in sweat.
This is especially true in endurance athletes who have a diet low in carbohydrates and in seasons of extreme heat abundantly sudan. But you can also hit bodybuilders in times of definition, where the carbohydrate in the diet are scarce and in ketogenic dieters.
Normal for an athlete is to eat 5-7 grams of carbohydrate per kilo of weight, thus avoiding a greater involvement of protein metabolism to provide energy, which in turn protects the muscle.