Authored by Dominick Mastrangelo via The Washington Examiner, Big take away For people younger than 45, the infection fatality rate is almost 0%. For 45 to 70, it is probably about 0.05-0.3%. For those above 70, it escalates substantially, to 1% or higher for those over 85. Stanford University’s disease prevention chairman slammed using statewide […]
Category: Wrestling Nutrition
Wrestlers Looking for an Edge? It isn’t Sugar!
Americans unconsciously consume more sugar year after year – why don’t we think more about it? Until this century humans didn’t really have much access to sugar. Athletes interested in enhancing performance sometimes think that simple sugars will work. I’m not sure that real science backs that claim up but that is an untruth for […]
The Last Undiscovered Edge: Diet and Performance
How you prepare for a workout can either enhance or take away from the exercise benefits. If you are a serious athlete or just want to improve yourself you want to make sure that you’re maximizing your workout effects, not detracting from them. Choosing the proper fuel is important, but so is the timing of […]
4 Reasons to Avoid Sports Drinks:
Americans are constantly under the influence from media advertisements to the point that many people now just believe them. I’ll lay out the case for water being the best sports drink regardless of what many marketing departments want us to believe. 1. WATER WORKS: First, drinking enough pure clean water is vital to achieving optimal […]
Optimizing Diet for Performance
How you prepare for a workout can either enhance or take away from the exercise benefits. If you are a serious athlete or just want to improve yourself you want to make sure that you’re maximizing your workout effects, not detracting from them. Choosing the proper fuel is important, but so is the timing of […]
Why fasting bolsters brain power: Mark Mattson at TEDxJohns HopkinsUniversity
Nobel Prize Winner Scientifically Proves Fasting is Good For Health
This helps explain some of the health benefits of wrestling. Translated by Dmitry Lapa Yoshinori Ohsumi, a cellular biologist from Japan, became a Nobel Prize winner in physiology and medicine “for discovering the mechanisms of autophagy.” The Japanese scientist has scientifically substantiated that fasting is good for one’s health, reports the Komsomolskaya Pravda Russian newspaper. […]
Our Food Supply Has Been Radically Altered Since the Mid-’90s
I posted numerous times about food and athletic performance. You want you child to be at their best on and off the mat? A large part of that is nutrition. Between 1997 and 2002 the number of peanut allergies doubled, and the number of hospitalizations related to allergic reactions to food increased by 265 percent.2 […]