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Mens corpora e mens sano
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Interested in a Faustian bargain? Some recent research tells us how to improve brain performance, feel better and live for 500 years while doing some healthy exercise to boot. Mind you there is a downside—you have to give up most foods, exercise like an Olympian, take supplements, and put up with bad breath and flatulence. Oh, and you have to get neutered as well. I knew there was a catch somewhere!
Although many athletes seem overly keen to take creatine as an ergogenic supplement, it may surprise you to learn that it also improves short term memory and reasoning ability.1 Strangely enough this effect is only seen in vegetarians. Meat eaters clearly have already optimised their cognitive performance by their choice of diet. The downside of such enthusiastic creatine supplementation is halitosis, flatulence and water retention. Many of these valuable side effects are thought to improve football performance
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