Apr 16, 2012

It’s a rookie mistake made by a lot of fitness experts, pro athletes, and exercise enthusiasts: taking  popular antioxidants can hamper exercise recovery by mucking up the body’s own natural antioxidant systems that evolution put in place hundreds of thousands of years ago. For the last 30+ years, weekend and world-class athletes have blindly...

Apr 15, 2012

What Evolution Has Taught Us About ROS [continued from Part 1] Most contemporary sports nutritionists fail to appreciate that exercise-generated ROS play a critical physiological role in the body’s adaptation to exercise. The last 100,000+ years of evolution have equipped our cells with redundant antioxidant defense systems to deal with the normal production...

Apr 14, 2012

[continued from Part 1 and Part 2] The facts reveal that while physical activity and athletic training lead to the natural generation of free radicals, such radicals cause significant cellular damage only when such activity is exhaustive. Most folks committed to a daily regimen of chronic cardio workouts like to think they’re engaged in exhaustive...

Apr 13, 2012

A single helping of spinach contains enough nitrates to boost athletic endurance and performance, according to a study conducted at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The study supports the findings of a previous report that showed nitrates in vegetables could improve running and walking times. Researchers fed healthy people nitrates equivalent to about a salad...

Apr 8, 2012

All food is information. Once you learn how to translate the molecular language of food, you’ll understand  the conversation it has with your genes. The foods you eat connect every cell in your body with the outside world. That organic egg from a cage-free hen fed omega-3-rich feed has something important it would like to say to your DNA.  Everything...