jungle of science

How do we assess our bodily condition? How do we find out whether we are on the edge but safe and not in danger to tip over? How do we know whether we are under-challenged and when do...

The training can be seen as a process of regular stimuli patterns applied to the body. This is at least how I define training and explain lots of phenomena accompanied with it, be they positive or negative. These...

But how are they linked? Everybody who has experienced an infection knows the feeling of being ill. Not feeling well is accompanied with indisposition, fatigue, lassitude, headache, drowsiness, shiver, muscle and limb pain, lack of motivation, loss of...

Wenn wir uns mit unserer Wettkampfernährung befassen, sollten wir das grosse Ganze dabei nicht außer Acht lassen. Jedenfalls bin ich der Ansicht, dass wir unsere Ernährung ganz grundsätzlich betrachten müssen. Unsere Ernährung während des Trainings ebenso wie unsere...

If we consider our race nutrition we should not forget about the bigger picture behind. At least I think that we need to look at our nutrition in general, and at the race and training nutrition in specific...

THE LONG MARCH OF THE ALLERGY The food allergy is frequently the beginning of the long march of the allergy Even if a food allergy frequently disappears with age, it is unfortunately far too often the beginning of...

Nutrition* is called the 4th discipline of triathlon. This may infer a very misleading connotation of the importance of food for all well-being. I consider nutrition as the foundation on which our well-being and our ability to perform...

Antibiotics destroy, they don't cure Just recently I have been confronted with guys suffering from infections with troublesome bacterial strains like Pseudomonas, a microbe usually only afflicting people with a weak immunity, and people in critical care hospital...