Bruce H. Lipton
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 While the athletes are on hold awaiting the "Go" command, their bodies are straining in anticipation of that task. In a normal race, that strain lasts only a second or two before the starter yells, "Go!" However, in our mythical race, the "Go" command, which would launch the athletes into action, never comes. The athletes are left in the starting blocks, their blood coursing with adrenaline, their bodies fatiguing with the strain of preparing for the race that never comes. No matter how toned their physique, within seconds, these athletes will physically collapse from the strain. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Like most New Yorkers, he was skeptical of anything new, especially when it concerned diet, and his skepticism was particularly high because my book recommended low-carbohydrate diets not only for patients with diabetes and heart disease but also for world-class athletes. After all, Jonny had been training athletes for years using high-carbohydrate diets, and here was some pointy-head scientist telling him that all of his nutritional advice for athletes was wrong. Needless to say, he was ready to rake me over the coals.. .until he heard my lecture. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Besides exhaustion and possible injury, professional athletes are more likely to suffer from a deficient immune system, which makes the body prone to infections and other ailments. For this reason, athletes consume a much larger quantity of prescribed drugs than the average person does. The thymus gland, which activates lymphocytes and controls energy supplies, may actually shrink in size and leave the body weak and debilitated as a direct result of over conditioning the body and stressing the mind. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Androstenedione, a precursor of testosterone that is marketed over the counter as Andro, is promoted as an energy booster but is actually used by many athletes to build muscle mass. Andro can cause a loss of fertility and other side effects similar to those of the other anabolic steroids.
Testosterone and its precursors and derivatives are anabolic steroids that promote the buildup of muscle mass. Testosterone is used to treat decreased libido and to increase muscle mass in athletes. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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| However, in our mythical race, the "Go" command, which would launch the athletes into action, never comes. The athletes are left in the starting blocks, their blood coursing with adrenaline, their bodies fatiguing with the strain of preparing for the race that never comes. No matter how toned their physique, within seconds, these athletes will physically collapse from the strain.
We live in a "Get set" world and an increasing body of research suggests that our hyper-vigilant lifestyle is severely impacting the health of our bodies. |
| Then the starter barks out, "Get set." The athletes' muscles tighten as they prop themselves up on their fingers and toes. When they shift into "Get set" mode, their bodies release the flight-promoting adrenaline hormones that power their muscles for the arduous task ahead. While the athletes are on hold awaiting the "Go" command, their bodies are straining in anticipation of that task. In a normal race, that strain lasts only a second or two before the starter yells, "Go!" However, in our mythical race, the "Go" command, which would launch the athletes into action, never comes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Reports that young athletes, college and high school athletes suddenly drop dead are not uncommon. There was a pro ballplayer, I think a pitcher on the Baltimore Orioles, who had been on supplements that contained ephedrine, which is very similar to the amphetamines. My feeling is that steroid use and amphetamine use is very, very common in athletes at the high school level and up. I think every one of those deaths is conceivably related to psychiatric drugs, most of which have startling coronary cardiac heart consequences. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Amenorrhea usually is not seen in athletes with a high percentage of body fat.49 Since the cause of amenorrhea and other menstrual disturbances is linked to energy deficiency, there is no justification for fears that exercise itself is unhealthy for women.50
As mentioned earlier, amenorrheic athletes show dangerous reductions in mean trabecular bone density as compared to eumenorrheic counterparts (42 percent).51 Exercise may intensify these effects48 as well as low calorie intake itself. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Up to 20% of normal children have hyper-flexible joints, as do many athletes. However, some people develop hyper-mobility in later life if their ligaments become injured, weakened, or overly stretched. Regardless of
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Dr Ron Roberts
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 Deep and intense pressure massage eases the stiffness often experienced by athletes and dancers, by draining waste products which accumulate in muscles after strenuous activity.
Massage is not suitable for people with a fever, blood poisoning, haemorrhaging, vein inflammation or varicose veins, thrombosis, spinal disease, acute inflammation, tumours, skin disease, pregnancy, abscesses, tubercular joints, severe abdominal pain, a heart condition or in the throes of an asthma attack.
A full body massage should take about 50? |
Andreas Moritz
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| The newborn needs them to grow; women take them to be happy; men use them to maintain or increase potency; athletes ingest them to stay fit; and older people take them to become younger or to avoid the flu. Even foods are categorized into good and bad, depending on how many vitamins they contain. Ever since vitamins were produced synthetically, they were made available in every drugstore or health shop around the world. An estimated 80 million to 160 million people take antioxidants in North America and Europe, about 10 to 20 percent of adults. In 2006, Americans spent $2. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Enter the Tabata protocol, a program originally developed to maximize the aerobic and anaerobic conditioning of elite athletes in the shortest time possible.
This innovative approach is named after Izumi Tabata, Ph.D., a former researcher at Tokyo's National Institute of
Health and Nutrition, who helped develop an optimal method of interval training with the head coach of the Japanese speed-skating team. The routine improves your maximum aerobic capacity, which is a measure of the maximal level at which your body is able to take in oxygen and pump oxygenated blood to muscle tissues. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| CREATINE
Creatine, an oral supplement that increases muscle phosphocreatine, a molecule that stores energy in muscle, is commonly used by high school athletes to enhance their athletic performance. The use of supplemental creatine speeds up regeneration of adenosine triphosphate, which increases energy availability during exercise, thereby buffering lactate and reducing muscle pain. The main side effect of chronic use is weight gain. |
| DHEA, since it is a precursor of testosterone, is being used by athletes to build muscle mass, but it is not very effective for this purpose. DHEA is also promoted for the prevention of normal aging. Studies have not shown that DHEA prevents the changes in body mass and chemistry that occur with normal aging. DHEA does not have effects on measures of body composition affected by aging, like muscle strength, insulin sensitivity, and oxygen consumption or on quality of life.22 Studies have shown that DHEA improves feelings of well-being and is useful in the treatment of depression. |
| Testosterone is used to treat decreased libido and to increase muscle mass in athletes. Taking testosterone supplements, however, can actually depress libido, and shuts off sperm production, causing infertility that can take months to recover from. In some cases recovery does not occur. Testosterone also leads to psychiatric side effects, including suicide. Other side effects are hypertension, tendon ruptures, liver tumors, and development of male characteristics in women. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The effect is so powerful that I'm fairly certain as soon as professional athletes figure this out, they're going to start doping with aloe vera gel. They'll cycle farther, swim faster and recover more quickly from any physical exercise. Aloe vera gel turns normal blood into super-oxygenated blood. But you have to eat a lot of it. I blend up an entire leaf (a piece of gel about the size of my forearm) in a smoothie and drink that. You can't expect huge benefits from taking tiny nibbles of aloe vera. You have to make it part of your diet. Eat it like food. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Clotrimazole, which is commonly used for jock itch, ringworm, and athletes foot, should not be used for diaper rash. In general it is less toxic than other antifungals since it is given topically and thus not highly absorbed into the bloodstream.
Antiprotozoans
Malaria, giardiasis, amoebiasis, trichomoniasis, and toxoplasmosis are protozoans, organisms that can cause infection in humans. Malaria is caused by the parasite Plasmodium and is spread by mosquitoes. Plasmodium falciparum infects red blood cells and is fatal in 1 % of cases. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 It is currently available as a supplement and is popular among bodybuilders and athletes. Studies have shown this hormone to increase testosterone levels in women. Studies with men have been mixed, with one showing an increase in estrogen and testosterone, and others showing an increase only in estrogen. Bodybuilders and other athletes also use similar hormones, known as androstenediol and norandrostene-dione, but these have not been well studied.
Indications: It is indicated for menopausal or postmenopausal women with low estrogen or testosterone levels. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| It has been found that if athletes take care to do a thorough warm-up routine before they begin the serious exercise the chances of developing asthma are greatly reduced. Likewise, warm your body down slowly after strenuous activity.
If you do find that you are wheezing and are short of breath you must take care not to trigger an attack, although remember that panting may be the result of the normal exercise and is not necessarily asthma. Correct breathing may avert the asthma but if asthma does develop, take your prescribed medication, remembering that attacks must be avoided. |
| PHYSICAL EXERCISE
At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 20 per cent of the athletes competing had asthma, and this percentage is reflected in many sports. Swimming may even have a higher number of asthmatics than this, as swimming is recommended for children with asthma. Among the many prominent asthmatics who have reached the top in their particular sport are Jackie Joyner-Kersey, the American track star, Adrian Moorhouse, the world-record holding British breaststroke swimmer, and cricket stars Allan Border from Australia and Ian Botham from England. |
| The basic strategy of athletes who wish to take as much oxygen as possible into their bodies is to consciously breathe out when an effort is involved and breathe in when the effort is lessened.
An opera singer breathes out for a long time when singing—long out and short in. Practise singing ... even if you don't have 'a good voice'—that doesn't matter if it helps your asthma. Sing while you are working around the house, especially songs with lots of words,- sing along with the radio. A vocalist or singer 'throws the voice'?breathing out long and in short. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Beloved of athletes, migraine sufferers, and the easily bruised, Tiger
Balm is today marketed in 100 countries, from Hammerfest, Norway to Bluff, New Zealand. Although it is a quintessentialfy 'Oriental' product, the largest single market in which it is sold is actually the United States where 40,000 physical outlets and an undeterminable number of websites stock the product. They range from the predictable (martial arts suppliers, Chinese markets and pharmacies) to the unexpected (supermarket chains and veterinary supply shops). |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Eimer found that when athletes reduced their protein intake from 100 grams of animal protein to 50 grams of vegetable protein, their performance improved.3 Dr. Chittenden, in extensive studies on soldiers and athletes, found that 30-50 grams per day is sufficient for maximum physical performance.4
It is also interesting to note that the average protein concentration in mother's milk is just 1.4 percent, sufficient to supply the human organism with all the essential amino acids and protein needed during the period of most rapid growth and brain development. |
Andreas Moritz
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| For this reason, athletes consume a much larger quantity of prescribed drugs than the average person does. The thymus gland, which activates lymphocytes and controls energy supplies, may actually shrink in size and leave the body weak and debilitated as a direct result of over conditioning the body and stressing the mind.
Exercise According to the Doshas
Exercise is best done according to one's capacity and psycho-physiological body type. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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| Many youne athletes, tor died at age 35 alone in his n 3 1 ° apartment one week before his play example, have hyperflexible joints opened. He died of a ruptured aorta—a and are tall with long extremities— complication of Marfan's, which neither characteristics that help in sports. he nor his doctors were aware he had. . .. .
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When he went to the ER with chest pains, J they were attributed to indigestion, and Marfan's. Sad to say, a number of he was sent home. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Results correlate with an increased physical performance in athletes taking schisandra and Bryonia versus placebo (Panossian, 1999). indications and usage
In Chinese medicine, schisandra is an adaptogen and an astringent used mainly for conditions of the digestive tract such as intestinal inflammation, and also for insomnia, enuresis, urinary frequency, nightly ejaculation, coughs, chronic diarrhea, dyspnea, insomnia, spontaneous outbreaks of sweating, hepatitis, neurasthenia and anxiety states. Efficacy for these indications has not yet been proven. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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| After all, Jonny had been training athletes for years using high-carbohydrate diets, and here was some pointy-head scientist telling him that all of his nutritional advice for athletes was wrong. Needless to say, he was ready to rake me over the coals.. .until he heard my lecture. For the first time, Jonny was introduced to the nuances of hormone control theory using food as a drug. Although there was a lot of endocrinology (the science of hormones) being thrown around in the lecture (after all, I am still a pointy-head scientist), Jonny devoured every bit of information. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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| According to anecdotal evidence, some athletes have been known to habitually yawn before a competition and paratroopers to do so before a jump.
Most of the time, yawning is a benign, if rather boring, activity. Sometimes, however, yawning can forewarn of a type of fainting— medically known as vasovagal syncope—the kind we usually associate with fainting from fear.
And sometimes yawning can be a wake-up call that we may have a serious medical condition. |
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