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Sports Nutrition: The Role of Arginine Supplementation

Sports Nutrition: The Role of Arginine Supplementation
Diet has a profound effect on human health. Nutrients can have both positive and negative effects, depending on the quantity we ingest, the quality of the diet, and what other foods they react with in digestion. In addition to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, contents of the diet before and after exercise are of paramount importance...
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Dangers of Supplementation for the Athlete: Human Growth Hormone

The use of dietary supplements is common. The 1999 to 2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that well over 52 percent of athletes in the United States take at least one dietary supplement daily. Although, in my opinion, supplementation can play a beneficial role in improving performance, it can also compromise an athlete's...
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Short Term Creatine Supplementation and Competitive Female Swimmers

Growing up I had the pleasure of swimming with some of the best age group swimmers in Australia. During a training session it was not uncommon for swimmers to consume various ergogenic aids in the form of a sports drink or supplement. In fact many swimmers used a supplement called creatine to maximise their training performance....
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Adrenal Exhaustion and Sports Performance

Always tired? Finding it difficult to train? Perhaps your adrenal glands are in need of some TLC. Adrenal exhaustion or burnout is characterised by three core dimensions: emotional exhaustion, feelings of depersonalisation, and reduced professional competence-along with mental weariness. In regard to sport, it is observed as; reduced accomplishment, sport devaluation and physical and emotional exhaustion. It is a real...
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Melatonin, Sports Performance, Sleep and Jet Lag

Melatonin is a pineal gland (small gland in the brain) hormone that helps regulate circadian rhythms (our natural daily cycle that regulates patterns of rest and activity), and influences sleep onset (how quickly we transition into sleep) and reproductive systems. Blood levels of melatonin are often undetectable during daylight, but rise sharply during darkness. It is also understood that as the body ages,...
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