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...Dave Freedholm, an experienced amateur distance runner, impressed on me the need to vigilantly avoid dehydration. His drink of choice was Accelerade. Like Gatorade, the original sports drink, it's packed with sugars and sodium to provide energy and replace the electrolytes depleted in sweat. But it also contains protein, which he said would help my muscles repair themselves more quickly after the punishing training runs he took...
Sure enough, I never felt much pain until after the marathon itself, and even then I recovered within a couple of days (aside from a foot injury, but that's another story). My anecdotal report isn't scientific, but legitimate research has consistently confirmed the muscle-repairing properties of protein consumed just after exercise...
...studies add some real science to the topic. Unfortunately, they contradict each other. One, appearing in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, compared a Gatorade-like drink with one similar to Accelerade, as well as with an artificially sweetened placebo. The conclusion: added protein might indeed help muscle recovery, but it does nothing to aid athletic performance. The other, appearing in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, looked not at performance but at hydration--how much of what you drink stays in your body. And in that study Accelerade came...
...disease - finding a way to diagnose the condition while the patient is still alive. Now, the only way to definitively diagnose Alzheimer's is with a combination of clinical symptoms and autopsy. It's only after the patient's death that doctors can confirm the existence of the protein plaques that are the hallmark of Alzheimer...
...brain disorder, Alzheimer's earliest sign might be an imbalance in the body's immune system. This shows up as an inflammatory reaction that occurs not just in the brain cells, but throughout the body. The net effect of this imbalance is a build up of the toxic amyloid protein, which is poisonous to brain cells and triggers their progressive death. In fact, argues Alkon, the amyloid accumulates into sticky, fatty plaques because the inflammatory reaction shuts down production of the non-toxic, soluble form of amyloid that normally keeps the toxic form in check. Alkon's group picks...