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In short: it is possibly a good idea to eat and drink (at least some teas with goji berries etc.) only after exercise, if you are trying to maximize its health
by contingencies 6y ago
In short: it is possibly a good idea to eat and drink (at least some teas with goji berries etc.) only after exercise, if you are trying to maximize its health effects.
- ehnto 6y agoI just wanted to point out that another comment came to the opposite conclusion, it's unclear to me who is right.
- contingencies 6y agoYeah, not immediately after. The phrase they used is better, "outside of the recovery window". It's all hearsay handwavey stuff anyway until replicated. What I like is that it sort of concurs with the default wisdom of pre scientific/quantified self era paranoia about best practices, which was "don't eat right before exercise". People take this stuff way to seriously IMHO. If you need a scientist to tell you when to eat, you've got bigger problems.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoWell, the problem that exercise supplement marketing has created is that they try to convince you that their products, like pre- and during-exercise drinks, are helping you. Otherwise your default state would have likely stayed at bringing just a water bottle and empty stomach to the gym.
- ehnto 6y agoHaving been in the supplement industry before software, even I ended up confused about what the right approach was. It was clearly awash with psuedoscience, but there are also countless points of anectodal evidence in the community confusing things further. I no longer take supplements, but creatine and whey protein are the two mainstays in the community. Pure and plain, and with lots of old and new studies backing them up.