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Supplement Use For Athletes Everywhere

Supplement Use For Athletes Everywhere. By: John Applegate. What are Supplements?. Something you eat or drink to enhance abilities Dietary or performance enhancing. History of Supplements. Started in Ancient Greece times Athletes were convinced to drink wine and eat plenty of meat

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Supplement Use For Athletes Everywhere

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  1. Supplement UseFor Athletes Everywhere By: John Applegate

  2. What are Supplements? • Something you eat or drink to enhance abilities • Dietary or performance enhancing

  3. History of Supplements • Started in Ancient Greece times • Athletes were convinced to drink wine and eat plenty of meat • In 1994 DSHEA was signed into law • Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act

  4. Types of Supplements • Protein • Amino-Acids • Creatine • Testosterone Boosters • No steroids

  5. Protein • Taken before or after working out • Different Types • Whey, Casein, Soy, Hemp, Rice and Pea • Most common body building supplement

  6. Glutamine, most abundant of the proteins.

  7. Amino Acids • Building blocks of protein • Body breaks down consumed protein into stomach • Three types of Amino Acids • Leucine, Isoleucine, and Valine • Amount to 33% of muscle protein

  8. Amino Acids ISOLEUCINE LEUCINE VALINE

  9. Picture describing what an amino acids chemical compound would look like.

  10. Creatine • Supplies energy to muscle cells • creatine improves strength, energy and muscle mass • found in natural foods like tuna, beef and salmon • Increases cell volumization Brings water into muscles

  11. CAUSES Creatine BEFORE AFTER

  12. Testosterone Boosters • Dietary supplement • Maximizes body to produce more testosterone • Mix up of names • Not the same as steroids

  13. Vitamins & Minerals • Vitamins and minerals make people's bodies work properly. • vitamins and minerals come from the foods you eat every day some foods contain more vitamins and minerals.

  14. Negative Effects • Taking unnecessary supplements can upset the body's nutrient balance and may even interfere with the absorption of other nutrients. • For Example, supplements with extremely high calcium can interfere with the body's absorption of iron, zinc, and manganese. • Taking too much zinc can interfere with iron and copper absorption. • Excess of vitamins A, D, E, & K, can build up in the body's tissues and cause illness when they are taken in high amounts.

  15. Vitamin B3 deficiency

  16. Vitamin D deficiency

  17. Vitamin K prevents blood clotting

  18. Creatine can cause Kidney disease

  19. Why steroids should not be used! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8IGA3O_pDg

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