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NUTRITION - HEALTH

Are your iron stocks enough for 2017 ?

Intensive training draws on iron reserves

Jean-Baptiste WIROTH
Among the whole minerals intervening in the good functioning
of the body, iron plays a particularly important role. In associa-
tion with red cells, it has the hard mission to carry the oxygen
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of the lungs in the cells.

During an endurance effort, such as a triathlon, it is not exag-
Iron plays a main role in our body and is even
gerated to say that performance relies almost exclusively on the
more important when we do endurance sports. capacity of the blood to carry the oxygen in the muscles. The
Understanding its role is essential to prevent level of performance of an athlete will be even higher as his

any deficiency and any risk of anaemia. This capacity to carry and to use the oxygen is more important. We
evaluate this with the maximum consumption of oxygen, the
month, let’s talk about the spinach myth and
famous VO2 max.
the Popeye myth that we loved when we were

young.

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