Tag: Athlete

  • Low-Salt diets and athletes

    🧂🏃‍♂️ While most athletes don’t intentionally follow low-salt diets, some do so indirectly due to general health messaging, dietary trends, or medical advice. Here’s how it breaks down: 🧘‍♀️ Athletes Most Likely to Follow Low-Salt Diets Athlete Type Why They Might Limit Salt Typical Duration Endurance athletes (runners, cyclists, triathletes) Misguided health advice or fear…

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  • HFE H63D & VO2 max

    SMOKE EM IF YOU GOT EM The HFE H63D is a single-nucleotide polymorphism in the HFE gene (c.187C>G, rs1799945), which results in the substitution of a histidine for an aspartic acid at amino acid position 63 of the HFE protein (p.His63Asp). HFE participates in the regulation of iron absorption. Homozygous H63D variant can occasionally be the cause of hemochromatosis. It is also…

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