Why use sports drinks? These nifty inventions, besides making their inventors and distributors a handsome profit, do actually help athletes of all levels perform well in their chosen event. So how do they work? Sports drinks, as their marketers trumpet in their advertising, provide replacement fluids and nutrients that are depleted in endurance events. What…
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Good Skin That Comes From Within
Bewildered by the competing claims on skincare products? Each promising miraculous results but not really delivering when you lay down the bucks? There is an easy and affordable solution: Work from the inside out. Here’s how.
Atrial Fibrillation and the Endurance Athlete
As a 58 year old competitive cyclist, Dr. Alan Bragman was out for a training ride when he didn’t feel well, so decided to call it a day and pedal easy on home. Then came the shortness of breath and chest pains that got him off of the bike and eventually into the hospital. The…
5 Sure-Fire Ways to Beat Dehydration This Summer
Body hydration, the amount of water we have in storage in our tissues, is a condition that can make or break your workouts. Especially during the summer months, a moderate level of dehydration can turn a typical workout routine into a true struggle for survival. Going back a few years, we remember what dehydration looks…
Dementia Prevention: Some Easy Things You Can Do
Dementia. A word that gives pause to even the most confident amongst us. So many of us have been touched (or one day will be touched) by this diagnosis that the condition does not call for an explanation. Yet bringing into the open a group of conditions which are classified under dementias is so vitally…
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