Utah vacation: second choice

We’ve been planning for a few weeks to take a week’s vacation, and our desire was to head to Bend, Oregon. However, the weather didn’t cooperate (cloudy and sprinkles) and the high country roads were still closed due to snow. So, we headed to southern Utah. That’s quite a difference in environments, but still the […]

Caffeine and exercise

As reported in the Science Daily News, former competitive cyclist and University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Robert Motl has investigated for a few years the effect caffeine has on athletes. In a recent study published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, he shows that coffee (2 to 3 […]

Energy drinks work in a funny way

According to Science Daily Journal, Ed Chambers et al. show that energy drinks (glucose or maltodextrin) can significantly boost performance in an endurance event, even if the drink is only rinsed in your mouth and not swallowed. Performance gains of 2 – 3% were measured.

Apparently, there is direct signaling from receptors in the […]