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Rugby World Cup 2015 – Size, Height, Weight & Speed
So, if you’re anything like me, watching the Rugby World Cup makes you feel like a little hobbit compared to some of the man-mountains that are on display. However, the Japanese, are the smallest team, and their victory over the Springboks shows what technique, tactics and heart can do against larger and stronger opponents. Enough…
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High Protein ‘Cake’
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Potential Use of Herbs in Sports Nutrition
Interestingly, there appears to be lots of evidence regarding different herbs, and their ability to enhance physical performance. I’m surprised nobody has mustered up an organic recovery formula, or pre-workout that’s actually quite ‘good’ for you. And marketed as such. With lots of beefcakes on the packaging. Ginkgo Biloba Rhodiola combined with Ginkgo, reduced physical markers of overtraining significantly…
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L Carnitine – What Doesn’t it do?
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Kava Kava Tea for Anxiety
As someone who has an interest in herbs, and nutrition in general, and is also one of those left-wing anti pharmaceutical types, I was very interested to read about Kava Kava AKA Piper methysticum. There are shed loads of studies showing that it significantly reduces anxiety; and depression. Safety concerns appear limited to liver toxicity if…
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Kratom Tea Review
Apparently it’s really effective for relaxation, and headaches, but you have to be really responsible with it. It’s supposed to have a similar effect to codeine (I read that codeine is physically addictive after 11 days of continuous use as well, so that’s off the proverbial table). Kratom can apparently make you constipated, and if you…
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How to Get Fit & Lose Weight
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99 Problems and Gut Inflammation
If you suffer from chronic inflammation problems, such as sinusitis, asthma, sore joints, terrible recovery from MMA training sessions; then you may have issues with gut inflammation. I recently increased my calorie intake to 4,000 a day, and wowzers, do I feel bad! Particularly in terms of sinus headaches. I hate air-con (that’s not me…
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Therapeutic Treatments / Interventions For Cognitive Decline/Alzheimer’s disease
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221920/ Really interesting study, looking at non-pharmaceutical interventions and their impact upon cognitive decline: The first 10 patients who have utilized this program include patients with memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), or subjective cognitive impairment (SCI). Nine of the 10 displayed subjective or objective improvement in cognition beginning…
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Sports Nutrition for Soccer / Football pdf