
What Inter's Parma fitness report actually tells us
A headline names four fitness cases. The reporting behind it names none — and that gap matters more than the headline.

A headline names four fitness cases. The reporting behind it names none — and that gap matters more than the headline.

Certifications, label tricks and filler red flags, explained plainly — and where the extra money actually goes.

The flaky, cheesy-tasting inactive yeast is a pantry staple for vegan cooks. Here is what it is, what it is not, and where the evidence stands.

Creatine is one of the most-studied supplements in sports nutrition. Here is what the research actually shows about its mechanism, its effects on strength, and where the evidence runs thin.
Large randomized trials have tested whether vitamin D prevents respiratory infections — the answer is a modest effect mostly in people who started deficient, and no demonstrated benefit against colds in the general population.

The fasted-training debate, what carbohydrate before exercise does to performance, and how early risers can time a pre-training meal.

RED-S and low energy availability describe the same core problem: fueling that does not cover training plus basic physiology. Here are the documented markers.

The classic week-long depletion protocol is obsolete. Modern carbohydrate loading takes one to three days, and the trials show who benefits and who does not.


Supplements reach shelves without FDA approval, but they are not unregulated — here is what the FDA and NIH say manufacturers actually have to do, before and after a product goes on sale.

Creatine is one of the few supplements with strong evidence behind it — for short-duration strength and power, in trained and untrained adults alike — and weaker evidence for the newer claims on its label frontier.

Synthetic stimulants and plant-derived beta-2 agonists keep appearing in supplements labeled as natural — and both sport and regulators treat them as prohibited or unlawful.

From a 2004 IOC-lab study finding undeclared prohormones in about 15 percent of samples to modern stimulant adulteration, contamination is documented, category-specific and manageable.

A popular 30-minute deadline for eating protein after a workout does not hold up well against the trial evidence, which points to total daily protein intake as the stronger factor in muscle growth.

Soreness two days after a workout tells you little about how much muscle actually broke down or how ready it is to train again.

Two major meta-analyses agree tart cherry juice helps strength and power bounce back faster, but disagree on whether it eases muscle soreness itself.

Athletes with early training starts reliably sleep less than their peers, Australian monitoring studies show; schedule and light choices matter more than any gadget.

Creatine is proven for strength and power, but its case as a recovery agent — less damage, faster glycogen, fewer missed sessions — rests on a thinner trial record.

The mechanism is well described and the performance evidence is narrow but consistent. The cognitive evidence is thinner, and the label claims are the manufacturers' own.