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by nl
4135 days ago
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It's true it is written to sell a book, but Noakes is a pretty well known sports scientist (perhaps the best known sports scientist in the world?), and a new book by him is likely to gain interest organically. As well as the increasingly popular "central governor" theory in sports science, he also "invented" the Paleo diet[1]. While I think the Paleo diet's benefits are overstated, there is little doubt that it set a trend towards diets that are more focused on choosing foods that have a high satiability index. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Noakes#The_.22Noakes_diet.2... |
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The sports medicine perspective along the same lines with respect to all humans other than rich modern westerners would be interesting. Or primates in general.
There would seem to be an obvious life / reproduction advantage in not a body not suiciding by sweating out all the salt, which makes the doctor's argument intuitively appealing.
Infinite water bottles and infinite sugar and infinite salt might or might not help performance, but they're surely not natural, interesting for all non-creationists to consider that all our ancestors evolved specifically not to consume those commercial products... Even if it does help short term (maybe) the long term effects of poking the bear and informal screwing around with tightly coupled systems by consuming enormous doses of unnatural stuff in stressful situations does need to be looked into.