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Dehydration Myths, By Dr. Sandra Fowkes Godek

August 28, 2014 by Russell Berger

The following article was submitted to us by Dr. Sandra Fowkes Godek. Dr. Godek is the director of the HEAT Institute and a professor of sports medicine at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She is an expert in thermoregulation, hydration, exercise-associated hyponatremia and exertional heat stroke, and has conducted research in these areas with NFL, NHL, NBA & collegiate sports teams. Tim Noakes also cites her research in his history of hyponatremia, Waterlogged. Fluid and electrolyte balance logically and by the numbers. When high school […]

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ACSM on Hydration: Protecting Athletes or Corporate Sponsors?

August 25, 2014 by Russell Berger

In 2007, the ACSM updated its position stand on “exercise and fluid replacement” under lead author Michael Sawka. In the decade prior, documented cases of athletes dying from exercise-associated hyponatremic encephalopathy (EAHE) were linked to the ACSM’s 1996 position stand which encouraged athletes to drink “as much as tolerable” as well as to Gatorade advertisements like this one, which encouraged drinking potentially fatal quantities of fluid. Yet the ACSM and Gatorade Sports Science Institute’s current hydration guidelines do not encourage […]

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The National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Moral and Academic Failure

August 22, 2014 by Russell Berger

We recently published this article on the death of Zyrees Oliver, presumably from exercise-associated hyponatremic encephalopathy, induced by overhydration. In that post, we questioned the motives of The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA), which continues to support erroneous hydration recommendations, the likes of which seem to have lead to Zyrees’ death. The connection between NATA’s dangerous hydration stance and it’s financial founding by Gatorade is even more suspicious. This suspicion was shared by one of our readers, Sandra Fowkes Godek, Professor in the Department of […]

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Gatorade, Over-Hydration, and Death

August 21, 2014 by Russ Greene

On August 6th Zyrees Oliver, a 17-year old with a 3.8 GPA, attended high school football practice in the 90-degree Georgia summer heat. Five days later, he died in the hospital. But it wasn’t the heat that got him. During practice, Zyrees complained of cramps. His aunt Dr. Tammy Chavis reports that he drank approximately 2 gallons of water, and two gallons of Gatorade. It’s not clear if his excessive drinking preceded or followed the cramps. I am not sure if […]

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Giordano Calculates a CrossFit Injury Rate

August 15, 2014 by Russ Greene

A Rate without Time? Twice before (Part 1, Part 2) we have covered Dr. Brian Giordano’s study, Injury Rate and Patterns Among CrossFit Athletes, on our blog. To recap, the study used an online survey in an effort to find the injury rate in CrossFit. They found, “75 participants (19.4%) had experienced at least 1 injury resulting from a CrossFit workout in the 6 months prior to filling out the survey that met the defined injury criteria. Of this population, 63 participants […]

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Russell Berger vs. Mark Rippetoe on ESPN

August 4, 2014 by Russell Berger

“You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you’re criticizing …” – Mark Rippetoe, 2008. I recently appeared on ESPN’s Outside the Lines to “react” to Mark Fainaru-Wada’s theatrical and inaccurate critique of CrossFit. I appeared opposite Mark Rippetoe, a former CrossFit […]

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