You could definitely call it “a founder’s meeting” for our ambassador program. We were a small group of people who seemed to be cut from the same cloth. And this was really amazing for me, as I had not focused on this aspect when I was contacting the guys whether they want to join our program. On Friday night we went to our favorite Italian restaurant and had lots of fun with quite some red wine. The dynamics of the group seemed promising for the next day.
Saturday morning we met in our office. We were all in a good mood and highly motivated to fill our empty frame with some essential cues for the program. After a brief self-introduction of all participants intense hours of idea exchange followed.
The Group: Reinhard, Karsten, Wolfi, Harry, Mario, Andreas, myself
First of all we mutually agreed upon that everybody’s own life history is essential for getting things to work. Everybody has got a job, private interests, maybe a family, a life in sports and on top of this to put yet another point on the agenda would simply make the program fail. Therefore we tried to extract from everybody’s everyday schedule where biestmilch could fit in without consuming extra energy. We agreed that it needs a certain time of training to get used to the fact that biestmilch is your new everyday companion.
Wolfi, Harry and Mario, and the edge of our baroque styled frame
After tomorrow our founder’s meeting for our brand ambassador program takes place, a kind of a kick-off event. Thoughts have been tossed and turned already for several weeks. Yesterday we decided to give it a frame, a real one. This makes it a lot easier to observe things how and where to they progress. I hope that after some time of writing notes, drawing sketches, outlining maps, deleting and rethinking an exciting fabric is going to emerge.
To get an insight into the process of recovery it is necessary to go a little bit into the physiology of muscle adaptation by training. There have been days when we were not having microscopes giving us a view on the micro-texture of this marvelous tissue. Back then people thought the muscle is not able adapt or recover. We had a similar idea about the muscle as we had not very long ago about neurones, either proved to be wrong! Why we could not observe muscle changes was because of the fact that the muscle differentiates and proliferates relatively slowly compared for example to the various connective tissues or mucosal linings.
Today we are well aware of the muscle structures, we know that a muscle is build out of bundles of fibers with different sizes whereas on the tiniest level of the filaments the processes of contraction are initiated. Contraction is a perfectly orchestrated course of events where biochemical actions are transferred into biomechanical movements. As a result myosin and actin filaments shrink against each other.
Biestmilch enthält eine Reihe wichtiger Wachstumsfaktoren und eine sehr große Konzentration an Immunfaktoren. Diese Beobachtung hat dazu geführt, Biestmilch/Colostrum bei Menschen einzusetzen, bei denen unterschiedliche im Rahmen von Immunfunktionsstörungen deregulierte Immun-Prozesse vorliegen. Eine große Anzahl an Studienergebnissen belegt einstweilen, dass Biestmilch/Colostrum das Potenzial besitzt, regulierend in vorhandene Störungen der Immunität einzugreifen. Auch die Funtkionsmechanismen, wie das geschieht, werden zunehmend klarer.
Zu den bisher relativ systematisch untersuchten Bereichen zählen die Behandlung von Darminfektionen, die Unterbindung gastrointestinaler Schäden durch nicht-steroidale Antirrheumatika (NSAID) wie beispielsweise Diclofenac und die Reduktion von Infektionen des oberen Respirationstraktes. Dies sind allesamt für Athleten mit hohem Trainingsaufwand relevante Anwendungsbereiche.
In jüngster Zeit wurde Biestmilch/Colostrum zunehmend eingesetzt, um bestehende, wenngleich mit einem konventionellen Immunstatus schwer nachweisbare Störungen der Immunität bei Athleten zu kompensieren. Wichtig ist in diesem Zusammenhang zu wissen, dass eine Stabilisierung der Immunfunktionen in jedem Fall mit einer Leistungssteigerung und einer verbesserten Regeneration einhergeht. Unsere Erfahrung aus den letzten 10 Jahren bestätigt diese wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse eindrücklich. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently, I had a comment on my facebook site where I cited a study by David Nieman that regular sessions of endurance training increasing 90 minutes may hamper your immune capacity. This was doubted, therefore I looked for more scientific evidence. Here I quote famous Michael Gleeson who plublished a whole book on “immune function in sport and exercise”.
Anxiety worsens a frail immunity, by Regina Hofer
In summary he says, that acute bouts of exercise cause a temporary depression of various aspects of immune function. Disturbances of immunity last until 3 to 24 after exercise depending on the intensity and duration of the exercise bout. Postexercise immune function depression is most pronounced when the exercise is continuous, prolonged (>1.5 h), of moderate to high intensity (55–75% maximum O2 uptake), and performed without food intake. Read the rest of this entry »
Currently Ross Tucker is writing about this topic on the Science of Sport blog. I want to pick up this topic very briefly, because as we know even among lean athletes weight is a crucial issue of discussion all the year through. The gossip around training your metabolism to burn more fat is fairly noisy, controversial and not very profoundly based on evidence. This has got to do with the fact that reliably measuring parameters of energy consumption and moreover to measure the kind of energy used is not trivial. While the procedures are very time-consuming and possibly invasive (e.g. muscle biopsies), the results for the individual are volatile, and contribute more to statistics than giving you advise on a very personal level. The data you get on an individual basis depend so much on your training, your diet regimen, the actual time of measuring that results can only give a rough guideline and may vary from individual to individual and intra-individually as well.
Energy use and loss follow the rules of macro-physics, at least we don’t know any better until now. The thought concept behind still seems to be applicable: you only lose weight, if your energy balance is negative regardless of the energy source your body uses. Of course, this does not indicate that you cannot train and optimize your metabolism. It only may say that low-intensity workouts don’t make you lose more weight than high-intensity ones. If you burn fewer calories than your intake may be then weight loss remains a dream, and weighing a shear frustration.
It is known that athletes have more effective fat burning capacities compared to sedentary individuals. This I think is easy to explain. Sedentary people are reaching the point, at which the energy contribution from carbs becomes greater than that from fat a lot earlier than well-trained athletes. This cross-over point (named by George Brooks, a very famous exercise physiologist) is relative to a person’s training condition. The conclusion is straight forward: If your body is well trained, you enter the zone in which mainly carbs are burned later than an untrained person.
Therefore workout and increasing your muscle instead of your adipose tissue brings about burning more calories and more fat. Obese persons are often disappointed, that they don’t lose weight despite reducing the calorie intake. Maybe they don’t have the muscles that help them burn more fat? Therefore one advise among thousand others may be to work more on an intensity program than remaining in the cardio or fat burning zone as many coaches and machines in gyms recommend.
Brand Ambassador kick-off meeting, for Louise, Mark and Pieter in specific ! 
to get used to the fact that biestmilch is your new everyday companion.
