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.

Periods of rest are highly active phases for body build-up You probably urge yourself as often as your coach does to take a rest? You can hardly stand the breaks and tend to carry on training again much too early, and you have a bad conscience when you are not training? How are we supposed to judge our needs of the own period of recovery in a reliable way? Or put it another way: which criteria should you choose in order to make the decision to take a rest both rationally and with a good conscience? Even though science has tried to define parameters or body conditions such as heavy legs syndrome or heart rate the decision to get on is in the end primarily made by feel.

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.

In March a study has been published by Playford at al.* about the the leaky gut syndrome in endurance athletes, and the efficiency of biestmilch/colostrum protecting stomach and gut exposed to strenuous workouts. In medicine the leaky gut is a problem physicians are quite familiar with. In sports in my opinion the problem has been neglected, even though stomach and gut are organs of minor resistance in many athletes. The survey is closed.

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.

Or about the art of finding out what it means to really feel good Just recently I spoke to Chris McCormack about this topic. He puts it like this:” My body is my work place. To release a really great performance, I have to feel really good.” It sounds simple, but is not. All of you who train regularly I am sure, can confirm this statement. It is not easy to find out what it means to feel great. Most of the time you don’t know until afterwards when you can put the delivered performance into relation with the perceived condition you were in.

The muscles' energy supplies are not the bottleneck that's cutting you off from increasing your endurance The Energy Supply– Energy Deficiency Training Model This model is another scientific effort to explain performance limits. In this model the goal of each training is considered to be the adaptation of the energy supplying systems in the body to the demands of the sport. The better our body is trained, the more economically energy is converted into muscle movements, performance is thus optimized. The carbohydrate metabolism which is independent from oxygen and the carbohydrate and fat metabolism that depend on the oxygen, all belong to the metabolic paths which must be trained to increase the yield of high energy phosphate compounds.