Improve cognition and physical performance at the same time

Improve cognition and physical performance at the same time

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler
  Adding one thing can sometimes give you more than one benefit. This research was conducted to find out if dietary nitrate supplementation would improve exercise performance and cognitive function during a prolonged intermittent sprint test (Thompson C.,et.al., 2015). 16 male team-sport players received either 140 ml a day of beetroot...
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How do you think stress affects your metabolism?

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Is reducing your salt intake really that healthy?

We don’t need the same amount of salt all the time. Why is that? When it is hot and we perspire more, or when we exercise and perspire more, we lose more salt which needs to be replaced. On days like that, we need to eat more salt. One of...
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Not all exercise burns fat equally.

Not all exercise burns fat equally.

 Have you accepted this truism: that the more physically active you are, the less likely you are to gain weight? Here is the catch: not all exercise is equally effective when it comes to burning fat. The good news is you don’t have to exercise for several hours a...
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High intensity training proven to be superior

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler
Exercise has been documented to have a profound effect on the body in many ways. One of the things exercise can alter is certain hormones. In the reviewed research, the investigators evaluated the hormone adiponectin in response to 2 different training programs (Shing CM, et al. 2013). Body composition, power...
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