There are only 9 weeks left until Kona. The IRONMAN world championship on the Big Island, Hawaii is for many an athlete the highlight of his or her career that one should enjoy. I am not talking about pro athletes, for them it is an obligation and in many ways not a question of joy. But for the many age groupers racing there should be joy. Be it as it may, it is hard work to get to Hawaii and it is hard work to finish there. Many currently linger along this very thin red line between overreaching and overtraining, and try to solve the riddle how to achieve peaking on time.
Don't forget our raffle. If you have a Kona slot, your chances to win are rather good. The new image guiding you to Zurich is online. Here we go ...
Since I am involved with biestmilch/colostrum, the diagnosis of lactose intolerance seems to have spread like an epidemic. Self-diagnosis and the diagnosis made by physicians – sorry to say so – as an easy way out for all kinds of functional gastrointestinal disorders has become so common that one has to develop reservations.
If you take your time and read the latest research done on this topic ...
... or a more closer look on the other side of the coin
Isn't it amazing how science and its view on the body changes over the years, decades and centuries. Just to give you some examples: Neurones and nerve tissue were considered to be without any potential for regeneration, the muscle cell was coined as a cell without abilities to multiply and adapt, and adipose tissue still has got this negative flavor of being a burden (aesthetic view) and health hazard (medicinal view) only. Fashion on the one hand and medicine on the other hand stand for these extreme positions.
This is pre-race week of IRONMAN Germany, European Championship. Four of our biest athletes are racing on Sunday, July 4... this is keeping us very busy the whole week through. Therefore my writing jobs have to wait a little while. I simply cannot manage more substantial topics anymore. I hope you understand that, thanks guys!
Yesterday I ran over the pages of "Trends in Immunology" which I have a subscription of since many many years. It is definitely a journal of scientific reputation, and gives me a good possibility to follow the drifts in upfront immunology. Long before I got involved with biestmilch in 2000 I am interested in the big unsolved health topics of today. In the current issue I found an interesting article* about the consequences of a modern lifestyle.
Since I am working and investigating biestmilch (colostrum) – for me the most complex therapeutic and performance "enhancing" as well as recovery "improving" substance – I am looking much closer at common sense concepts in exercise science and exercise physiology. Understanding biestmilch means to understand the body as an organic machine of well coordinated regulatory processes.
Endurance sports are very trendy and, so is triathlon for example. But how do we all who are busy all day long achieve the training volumes of 12 to 14 hours per week, a minimum that is assumed necessary to race a long distance triathlon race or a marathon? There are different approaches to what is considered efficient training. Some of the elite athletes are convinced that long training cycles are necessary to get into good form, while others favor qualitatively high-intensity training sessions. The proof of concept is still missing, because there are athletes in either group who are successful, as there are those who are not.