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Is Your Gut Keeping Up With Your Training? Seven Signals to Watch
Energy, workout-load tolerance, fueling capacity, and recovery consistency can tell you when your routine is no longer keeping up with your training.
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More Carbohydrates Can Mean Better Performance. Your Gut Has to Be Ready for It.
Taking in and tolerating enough carbohydrate can improve endurance performance. Your muscles need the fuel, and your gut has to...
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The Long Game: What B. adolescentis May Tell Athletes About Healthy Aging
A new University of Hawaiʻi study found that Bifidobacterium adolescentis was the strongest microbial predictor associated with a slower biological-aging...
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Beyond The Buzz: What A Better Pre-Workout Is Designed To Do
A pre-workout can create a rush, support performance, or both. The difference is whether it is designed around a short-lived...
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Heat, Hydration, And The Athlete Gut: Why Hot Days Can Change The Plan
Heat changes more than pace and sweat rate. For athletes, hard efforts in the heat can also change digestion, fueling...
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Lactate, Lactase, And The Athlete Gut: Why Element Starts With Testing
Lactate is not lactase. One is part of the hard-training story. The other helps explain the dairy question. Their two-word...
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Why Athletes Get Stomach Aches At The End Of Races
A finish-line stomach ache usually is not random. It is often the accumulated cost of intensity, heat, hydration, nerves, fueling,...
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Your Gut Has A Time Limit
Long races and long drives expose the same practical problem: gut reliability when stopping is not simple. Learn why GI...
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Don’t Leave Your Gut Behind
Ever wonder why your stomach rebels during a hard race? A lot of it comes down to blood flow. When...
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