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Pregnancy Nutrition for Active Women: What Prenatal Advice Misses

Prenatal vitamins cover folate and iron. They don't cover the full picture of what an active pregnant woman needs — and the gaps in choline, DHA, and iodine have documented consequences for foetal neurodevelopment.

5 分鐘閱讀 · 2026-10-20

Paleo Diet and Athletic Performance: What Paleolithic Athletes Really Ate

The paleo diet's evolutionary logic is genuinely interesting. Its application to trained athletes — who have carbohydrate demands that hunter-gatherers matched through entirely different food sources — is more complex than the popular framing suggests.

5 分鐘閱讀 · 2026-10-06

Melatonin for Jet Lag: The Timing Protocol That Actually Works

Melatonin timing is everything. A 1mg dose taken at the right circadian phase outperforms 10mg at the wrong time. For travelling athletes and shift workers, the difference is measurable in performance.

4 分鐘閱讀 · 2026-09-29

Iron Deficiency in Runners: Check This Before Blaming Overtraining

Iron deficiency without anaemia is missed by standard blood panels and accounts for a significant proportion of unexplained endurance fatigue. Here's what the research says and what to measure.

5 分鐘閱讀 · 2026-09-15

Compound Interest in Athletic Development: Why 1% Gains Beat Overhauls

The mathematics of compound growth applies to training adaptation the same way it applies to financial returns. A 1% daily improvement compounds to 37× improvement over a year. The athletes who understand this build differently — and retain their gains longer.

5 分鐘閱讀 · 2026-07-28

Collagen for Joint Health: Dosing, Timing and the Evidence Base

Collagen supplements are often dismissed as wellness marketing. But the specific protocol with evidence — gelatin + vitamin C, taken 60 minutes before exercise — is mechanistically distinct from general collagen powder use.

4 分鐘閱讀 · 2026-07-21

BMR Prediction Equations: Why They Are Wrong for 20% of People

Every TDEE calculator uses a prediction equation for basal metabolic rate. Every prediction equation has a population-level error of ±10–15%. For an athlete consuming 3,500 kcal/day, that's a potential daily error of 350–525 kcal — the equivalent of a full meal disappearing from the calculation.

5 分鐘閱讀 · 2026-06-30

Athlete Retirement Planning: Why Peak Earning Years Get Wasted

Studies consistently show 60–80% of professional athletes face significant financial difficulties within five years of retirement. The cause is not spending. It is the mismatch between athletic career economics and conventional financial planning timelines.

5 分鐘閱讀 · 2026-06-23

Alcohol Has 7 Calories Per Gram. That's Not Even the Worst Part for Body Composition.

Alcohol's caloric density is the entry point. The bigger issue for athletes is how ethanol disrupts substrate oxidation, fat storage, and recovery — effects that persist well beyond the BAC returning to zero.

5 分鐘閱讀 · 2026-06-16

Alcohol and Athletic Performance: What a Few Drinks Do to Recovery

Most athletes know alcohol isn't ideal for recovery. Few understand the specific mechanisms — or how little it takes to measurably impair the adaptations from a hard training session.

5 分鐘閱讀 · 2026-06-16