Category: sports nutrition Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Targeted repletion may be the competitive edge every serious athlete needs : From baseball to bodybuilding – targeted repletion may be the competitive edge every serious athlete needs. The key word being “targeted.” We all know athletes, particularly college and professional athletes, will push their bodies and skill to the edges of potential, and beyond. The physical discipline and mental focus in elite athletes can be extreme. Every improvement in physiology can potentially move the athlete into new realms of performance.... Read More Posted by Nichole Herms at Tuesday, August 16, 2022 #micronutrients #micronutrienttesting Choline & Muscle Cramps Choline & Sports Nutrition intracellular micronutrient status micronutrient deficiency micronutrient test micronutrients sports nutrition Sports Performance targetedsupplementation Wednesday, July 6, 2022 Methylation 101 What is methylation? Biochemically speaking, methylation is the process of adding or removing a methyl group – which is a single carbon attached to three hydrogens – to a molecule. It is a simple chemical reaction that can totally alter the biology of a person – for better or worse – depending on where the methylation occurs. Methyl groups are chemically inert, but adding them to a protein (the process of methylation) changes how that protein behaves in major wa... Read More Posted by Nichole Herms at Wednesday, July 6, 2022 #micronutrients Effective weight loss Functional Nutrition holistic nutrition methylation micronutrient deficiency micronutrient testing MTHFR sports nutrition Thursday, June 2, 2022 Want to Maintain a Healthy Weight? What You Need to Know About Micronutrients and Fat Metabolism If you are like most people, you are probably aware of how various diets emphasize different macronutrients. Low fat or low carb? That is a macronutrient question. Only three macronutrients exist – fats, carbohydrates and protein. Some consider water a macronutrient, which is debatable. Spectracell goes deeper. Much deeper. Spectracell’s focus is micronutrients, of which there are dozens. Examples of ... Read More at Thursday, June 2, 2022 #micronutrients diet diet routine Effective weight loss exercise Functional Nutrition holistic nutrition mealprep micronutrient micronutrient deficiency micronutrient testing Micronutrients and Breast Health Nutrition sports nutrition vitamins weight optimization weightloss Monday, June 7, 2021 What is Vitamin B12’s Relationship with Shoulder Injuries? In this prospective study, researchers followed 87 people to determine if their vitamin B12 levels correlated to a higher risk of a rotator cuff tear. The rotator cuff are muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder and maintain joint integrity, and this is one of the first studies to look at this specific injury and its relation to B12. To begin the study, levels of vitamin B12 were measured as well as other nutrients including vitamin D, zinc, calcium, magnesium, and... Read More Posted by Nichole Herms at Monday, June 7, 2021 micronutrients sports nutrition Sports Performance Vitamin B12 Thursday, May 27, 2021 Does Vitamin D Status Affect an Athlete’s Ability to Recover from Knee Surgery? A prospective study on 153 athletes that underwent ACL surgery looked at this very question. Interestingly, the authors concluded that vitamin D status has no effect on outcomes, yet those with the lowest vitamin D status had three times the failure rate than those with higher vitamin D, meaning the authors’ conclusion is not the only conclusion at which one may arrive. Here are the details... The average age of the 153 patients was around 24 years old – young... Read More Posted by Nichole Herms at Thursday, May 27, 2021 exercise physiology micronutrients sports nutrition vitamin d vitamin d and injury recovery
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