Commonwealth Sports Medicine

Good, but it Needs A Little Salt “Low salt”… “Salt free”… “Low sodium”… these products are all over the shelves of your Whole Foods and HEB. Is this what we should eat? What is Hyponatremia? (hi-PO-na-tree-mee-uh) Table salt, sodium chloride, is lost in sweat and urine and replaced by food. The sodium part (of sodium [...]

Citius, Altius, Fortius: Faster, Higher, Stronger It’s the Olympic motto. In a world where athletic events are won by hundredths of a second and competitors do almost anything to win, athletes of all levels explore ergogenic aids (substances that improve athletic performance). The Tour riders and Richmond runners are no exception. Legality is a concern. [...]