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Sport is healthy. It reduces the risk of disease and helps you on the correct weight. But all good things often poses a slight disadvantage.
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Through sports because you use more oxygen (because you're breathing more) and therefore are more radicals in the body. If these free radicals in abundance, they can damage the cells of the body. One of the first symptom is pain.

Our body tries the number of free radicals in two ways within the limits. First, there are antioxidant enzymes that can deactivate free radicals. Minerals such as selenium, copper and zinc are needed. Our second protection against free radicals the antioxidant vitamins that we ingest through our food, such as vitamins C and E. These vitamins can also deactivate free radicals. Completion of these antioxidants through a supplement would be beneficial for athletes, according to research. Especially for people who regularly heavy sports like cycling and running.

We have by antioxidant vitamins may have less muscle pain, but our sporting performance is no better. Unless someone really advance a shortage of vitamins or minerals. In such cases, a supplement is indeed the sporting performance.

Athletes consume by the effort they make not only oxygen but also more energy. So they have more food and related more vitamins and minerals. Who with a varied diet that provides increased energy automatically given more vitamins and minerals.
Supplements for athletes

It is shown that athletes with a vitamin and / or mineral deficiency a multivitamin supplement for better performance provides. This applies mainly to a shortage of certain B vitamins and vitamin C. A vitamin deficiency can have many causes, including insufficient food, lack of a varied diet or over-cook vegetables. It is important to first causes of such deficiency to address.

The increased energy demand due to exercise, often during or after exercise "resolved" through the consumption of carbohydrate snacks. These snacks are not always as rich in vitamins and minerals. Some sports, such as ballet, gymnastics or bodybuilding, weight is also important. With a combination of strenuous exercise and lines, the supply of vitamins and minerals in jeopardy. A supplement can ensure a good supply.

There have been no indications that a healthy diet and a normal vitamin status, vitamin supplements improve the performance, strength or endurance, or muscle building.
Vitamin Supplements and Doping?

In the past it has occasionally happened that athletes were found positive in doping tests, which was thought to intake of these substances through food supplements. These are not the vitamins and minerals themselves, but for other substances in the supplements. Therefore, the dietary supplements, the Dutch Security System Food Supplements Top Sport, a list of supplements with their respective batch numbers which are entirely free of doping substances as indicated. This - still incomplete - list can be viewed via the website http://antidoping.nl/nzvt.

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