Natural supplements for athletes

Nutrition plays a big role in the training and preparations of our Philippine athletes, the right food or balance diet and the right supplements that should be provided for them are not actually met, not unless they have been catapulted to fame due to winning a certain prestigious tournament, access to this essential necessities are hard and almost impossible some athletes sometimes do it on their own and from their own finances.

“The life of an athlete especially in the National team is hard” said one retired athlete, “during my stint everything is almost personal, training gears, nutritional diet, nutritional supplement, etc. are all of our own resourcefulness, we rely on people’s advice that sometimes or most of the time are unsolicited and are trial and error.”

The human body who undergoes a rigorous activity needs to be backed with the right food and augmentation of needed nutritional supplements that either boosts their energy in training and or recovers lost vigor, training too much without replenishment is actually dangerous that could result dehydration, or physical fatigue due to excessive loss of body nutrient.

The best remedy to this as one sports nutritionist have suggested is to resort to natural supplements, according to him this would not require too much financial requirement because the Philippines is actually rich of this raw materials, it’s just learning about them and how they work, the era or fad of herbal medicine is a thing that could possibly help resolve the problem of nutrition of the athletes, the responsible agency should look into educating the athletes about the essentials and benefits of natural supplements or herbal supplements which could serve as an alternative to the nutritional needs of the athletes which cannot be provided for them for what reason only those who are responsible would know.

The Philippines is rich in herbal plants that are for the longest time neglected because of the suppressing effort of large pharmaceuticals it’s about time that we harness this natural resources to benefit us specially our athletes our unsung heroes.