[LifeStyle] Can sports be made compatible with beer?

[Dr.Drako]

How the moderate intake of this alcoholic beverage influences after sports practice
Diet, physical exercise and the importance of hydration in sports performance as part of an active lifestyle. These have been the main topics addressed in the conferences "Nutrition, Sport and Lifestyle of the athlete" that are taking place in different universities throughout the Spanish geography. These presentations have been organized by the Beer and Health Information Center (CICS).
 

Sports and nutrition professionals have debated the athlete's diet and lifestyle. In addition, they have also explained the role of moderate beer consumption in recovery after physical activity, or the effects of moderate beer intake in people who undergo high intensity training (HIIT).

Nutrition in sport

Diet directly influences the performance of the athlete, so people who exercise regularly should have a nutritional strategy. In the words of Dr. Jesús Bernardo, medical specialist in Sports Nutrition and Founder and director of the Nutrition, Food and Metabolism Unit (UNAM), "athletes must synchronize nutrition and training to improve their results, since only through a Proper nutrition ensures the proper functioning of all metabolic functions. "
 

One of the strategies recommended by Dr. Bernardo is to plan the feeding before the competition. The previous days, it is recommended to take carbohydrates that provide the optimal amount of glycogen and increase resistance capacity, while he has advised avoiding foods rich in protein or fat because they require more energy to digest them and make gastric emptying difficult. For fans who practice sports weekly, it has been suggested to eat foods rich in carbohydrates.
 

However, Dr. Bernardo recalls that the importance lies in "ordering food intake and not restricting it, so if carbohydrates are recommended before playing sports to increase endurance, beverages with high water content and low alcohol content like beer have a place after exercise to recover from the effort made. "

Post-workout rehydration

The specialists agree on the importance of an adequate recovery of the losses that have occurred during the exercise. These include water and mineral salts that can be lost by sweat in significant amounts. In this sense, Prof. Manuel Castillo, Professor of Medical Physiology at the University of Granada, underlines the need to "recover these losses due to the replacement effect it has and because it determines the correct regeneration of damaged structures, which improves the performance and prevents injury. "
 

In addition to water, following the conclusions of the study 'Suitability of beer in the recovery of the metabolism of athletes', Dr. Castillo explains that "beer, so commonly consumed, could be an option to replace hydro-losses minerals that are produced with sweat and facilitate recovery thanks to the organoleptic characteristics and metabolic substrates that this drink provides, such as antioxidants, B vitamins and amino acids. "
 

Therefore, moderate consumption of beer (between one and two rods a day for women and between two and three for men) could promote rehydration without affecting sports performance.
 

In fact, this specialist has also taken the opportunity to present the main conclusions of his latest study "BEER-HIIT: Beer or Ethanol Effects on the Body Composition Response to High-Intensity Interval Training", the first study in the scientific literature investigating the influence of consumption beer beer in the psycho-physiological response to a high intensity training program (HIIT).
 

Among the main conclusions of the first study, Dr. Castillo highlighted that "the results obtained show that a 10-week HIIT program does not change weight but significantly improves body composition by decreasing fat mass and increasing lean mass in healthy adults These positive effects are not influenced by the intake of beer, or its alcohol equivalent, in moderate amounts, and the intake of beer or its alcohol equivalent during exercise does not affect the distribution of body fat.
 

In addition, the scientific evidence derived from this research shows that the improvement in body composition caused by this form of training, characterized by a decrease in the amount of fat and an increase in the amount of muscle, is not influenced by the regular intake of beer. Nor has it been observed that such ingestion

Edited May 16, 2020 by Dr.Drako
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