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Electrolytes: Essential Functions for Optimal Health

Designs for Health

Sweat, particularly during physical exercise and exposure to hot weather, is the largest source of electrolyte and water loss. Even a loss of 1% body mass can potentially impact psychological functioning and activities like driving. Immune Function Certain electrolytes can directly support the immune system.

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How to Sleep Like a Champion: The Science of Sleep and Athletic Performance

The Sporting

It allows your heart to rest, your cells and tissue to repair, and your immune system to fight infections. Impaired Recovery and Adaptation Poor sleeping habits can interfere with the processes that help the body heal and grow after exercise, such as muscle repair, tissue growth and hormone secretion.

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Invisible Disabilities

Teen Health 101

Many of these conditions are psychological, and are so unacknowledged in society to a point where they are dismissed and left for individuals to handle on their own. Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy is a form of exercise-based physical treatment that can improve balance and posture to alleviate symptoms of dizziness. Conclusion.

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COVID-19’s Impact on Youth Physical Activity

Spark PE

All in-person recreation was closed, including youth sports, dance, martial arts, and exercise classes. On the positive side, in the US, exercise was generally considered an “essential activity” so people could use streets and sidewalks for walking, running, and biking. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. Sports Medicine.