Pg 2. What You Put into Your Body

page 2, the rest of the story…The influence of proper sleep is now being extensively researched and talked about. Most of us do not get enough sleep or quality sleep. Americans are the most sleep deprived people in the world. Even college students need nine to ten hours of sleep every night. Check your phones, tablets, computers, t.v.’s, at the door or your bedroom–outside. No electronics in the bedroom. The bed room must be dark, quiet and cool-in temperature. The body heals while sleeping, muscles repair, the brain scrubs itself, the liver rejuvenates, and so on.
All the ergogenic aids in the world are not going to improve your efforts if you are sleep deprived. Adequate sleep will benefit your recovery efforts, reduce stress, improve cognitive ability, and increase productivity. If you are traveling across time zones to get to a practice venue or event there are special considerations, especially West to East, East to West.
Preventing dehydration during exercise is one of the most effective ways to maintain exercise capacity. More events have been lost because of poor hydration than any other factor. There is no acclimatization to dehydration, other than slowing down or falling. Your brain goes down too.
“Nuff” said. pg 3 tomorrow. I am relating most of this to sports needs and outcomes. Athletes are expensive and a lot of research is done on and with them. These advances take many years to filter down to the non athletes. Same as NASA research or critical care, or warfare survival and research. The outcome is that the findings relate to critical thinking in the business world, learning and education, prenatal and the first 1000 days of baby, and forever in our life and health span. Do you think there may be an association with the Female Triad and menarche, prenatal and fertility nutrition, etc? There are many crossovers if we are paying attention. I hope you have questions to ask, and ask them…