jungle of science
categoryShort note on why Biestmilch helps to speed up recovery
To get an insight into the process of recovery it is necessary to shed some light on the physiology of muscle adaptation as a reaction to regular patterns of training stimuli. You won't imagine how we saw the...
BIESTMILCH: The proof of concept “modulation of inflammation” is there
In 2015 Ronnie Schildknecht asked me the questions he had about Biestmilch. One was the question about the evidence and the data. The 17 years I am now acting as a Biestmilch advocate have been marked by the...
The brain needs energy and off times
We should not forget that our brain demands energy and recovery. Proper brain function consumes 20% of all available energy. That's quite a lot. At the end of a long season we hear many athletes say: "My head...
Stomach and gut belong to the most stressed organs of an endurance athlete
Stomach and gut issues are common among high-end performance athletes and endurance athletes in general. A few weeks ago a very interesting study has been published* that underscores the properties of Biestmilch as a substance stabilizing the mucosal...
Being sick or just feeling depleted?
In this text I want to look behind the symptoms of depletion that can so easily be misinterpreted as virus infection. To underscore it right from the beginning both conditions need first of all rest and recovery. Anyhow,...
Stress is a part of our lives – who doesn’t know the feeling?
Stress is a transitional state on the edge where border physiology and pathophysiology turns into a fuzzy line, in other words it's distinction between well-being and illness becomes blurred, a familiar condition to all of us. There is...
The response to stress is a tightly coordinated biological process
What is happening, what is going wrong? A short reflection on stress from a biological point of view. Influences on our body that threaten its balance are stress factors activating a stress response. Stress factors can be physical...
Immune cells repair muscles
This is a short very comment on an exciting but neglected topic. The title of this paragraph I copied from the German triathlon magazine, edition "Training". I am again and again surprised how long it takes until such...