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SCIENCE PULSE The latest news on the power of key supplements to boost
sports performance and safeguard your health.
BY PHIL HARVEY, PHD, RD, FISSN, FACN
Amla Intake
Enhances Cellular Mushroom Blend May Improve
Energy Production
Researchers from Shiga University of Medical
Exercise Performance
A recent study by researchers from the University of North Carolina,
Sciences in Japan recently studied the effect of Chapel Hill, concluded that supplementation with a mushroom
Amla (an Indian fruit) blend containing Cordyceps militaris may give you that extra push in
intake on cellular ability the gym. Cordyceps militaris is a fungus used in traditional Chinese
to protect itself from Medicine and is used in some workout supplements.
oxidative stress, or In the study, a group of 28 people were assigned either a capsule
cellular damage filled with Peak02, a mushroom blend produced by Compound
caused by normal Solutions, or a placebo of maltodextrin and hemp protein.
metabolism plus Performance factors measured during high intensity exercise were
toxins taken in maximal oxygen consumption, time to exhaustion, and ventilatory
through air, food, threshold (the point during exercise when ventilation increases at
and water. Stressed a faster rate than the volume of oxygen entering and exiting the
cells need more lungs, when youre forced to rely on your anerobic energy system).
energy in the After one week of supplementation, the researchers found no
form of ATP, which significant improvement in any of the exercise
is produced in the performance factors. But after three weeks,
mitochondria. maximal oxygen consumption improved
In the study, significantly in the Peak02 group versus
scientists found that the placebo group. While there was less
Amla treatment of a improvement in time to exhaustion and
stressed mouse cell acted as an antioxidant to ventilatory threshold in those who had
reduce the reactive molecules in the cell (cell- supplemented with Peak02, the authors
damaging molecules occurring with oxidative concluded that longer term supplementation
stress), and also improved the mitochondrial with Cordyceps militaris may help with these
function, activating the ability to produce extra exercise performance gains.
ATP in case of a sudden increase in energy Source: (Hirsch KR, et al. J Diet Supp. 2016
demands. Jul 13:1-13)
Source: (Yamamoto H, et al. Oxid Med Cell Longev.
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