Many of you have been receiving experiment packages during the last months. Therefore we once again want to outline what the BOOSTER actually is and how you can take it to get the optimum out of it. 

Hard to believe but true, the BIEST BOOSTER is a high-tech product even though it is also a truly natural product. Biestmilch is natural through and through and so are the 100 mg of caffeine contained in the Booster and the sweetener Stevia. They originate from the natural caffeine extract of the guarana fruit and the stevia plant form North and South Amercia. The BOOSTER's matrix is composed of a dextrose derivative called Emdex®. So in the end, what makes the Booster a high-tech product, is the art of combining 4 grams of Biestmilch with 500 mg of Guarana extract into an edible small shape.

Spring is in full swing on the Northern hemisphere, and so is allergy. From LA to Frankfurt thousands of people suffer from the various symptoms connected with allergies. For this reason I would like to say a few words about the relation between allergies, the immune system and stress. In many ways I got the impression over the years that there are lots of misleading views about the cause and effect relation of allergies out there. The condition of your immune system determines the course of your allergy What about the scientific thought model, that it is not the pollen that causes the allergy, but that it is the immune system that's not able to deal with the pollen?

Im März wurde von Playford at al.* eine interessante Studie zum Thema "Durchlässigkeit der Magen- Darmschleimhaut" (Fachterminus: Leaky gut Syndrom) publiziert. Die Studie fokussierte Ausdauerathleten und untersuchte das Potenzial von Biestmilch/Colostrum, die Magen-Darm-Schleimhaut zu schützen. Die Arbeitsgruppe um Playford konnte eindrücklich zeigen, dass Biestmilch die Magen-Darmschleimhaut stabilisiert und ihre Durchklässigkeit positiv beeinflusst. In der Medizin ist das Phänomen "Leaky Gut"hinreichend bekannt. Bei Athleten wurde ihm meiner Ansicht nach bisher zu wenig Beachtung geschenkt, obwohl der Großteil aller Ausdauerathleten an Problemen im Bereich des Magen-Darmtraktes leiden. Die Umfrage ist geschlossen.

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 lining of the stomach and the gut. This makes me very happy, as I have been stressing the respective effects to athletes many times.
The gastro-intestinal tract's role is not only digestion, its mucosal lining also acts as a selective communicator between the external and internal micro-environments. In endurance performance you are walking the line between absorbing nutrients and keeping compounds on the outside that may jeopardizing your body's balance.

Right at the beginning I want to underline, that I am not taking the position of a psychologist but more of a biologist. »The word motivation comes from the Latin word for moving=movere and motus= movement. It describes the state of an organism that influences the direction and the energy load of the current behavior. By direction especially the focus on goals is meant. The energy load means the physical forces which drive the behavior.« Source: wikipedia Is motivation grounded in biology or psychology? Or both? "The significance of the immune system for motivation", was the headline of an article I was going to write about a few months ago, when I sent my topic list to an editorial office where I use to publicise. Back then I had a rather vague idea, on how I was going to tackle this interesting subject. When the date of publication came closer and I finally began to think about this topic in greater detail, I quickly realized that I was to going move towards an intersection of different sciences and thought models connected with the most controversial and antagonizing viewpoints. In the following article I don't intend to explain the different methods of motivational training but want to elucidate in greater depth the biological background and coherences that characterize a state of motivation.