Dec 15, 2012

Avid sports fans, as well as professional athletes, love to debate head-to-head rivalries in sports. This is especially true in tennis, where the head-to-head win-loss records of the champions can be directly compared. Unlike sports that depend on a team effort, singles tennis is a one-on-one game, making it impossible for individual players to distribute blame...

Jul 26, 2012

[Athletes please note: Make an online-chat appointment with me to learn how to make a meal out of your competition! Click HERE to check available dates and times.] Researchers are patting themselves on the back for recently discovering that ordinary bananas are equal to the energy-boosting and performance-enhancing effects of the latest scientifically...

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...