📅 25. 8. 2026
Autophagy is one of the fundamental mechanisms through which the cell continuously maintains its internal environment in order. The name comes from the Greek words autos (self) and phagein (to eat) and can be loosely translated as "self-digestion." In this...
📅 3. 9. 2024
Metabolic Flexibility Anyone who embarks on changing their dietary system and wishes the organism's behavior to move in the desired direction while maintaining good health must respect one absolutely essential characteristic of human metabolism – metabolic flexibility. Even though this...
📅 3. 9. 2024
Humans, as omnivores, differ from other animals in terms of diet with one undeniable advantage: Their metabolism shows considerable flexibility in utilizing energy sources, which allows them to adapt to great extremes. This feature, called “metabolic flexibility” nowadays, is increasingly...
📅 3. 9. 2024
Fatigue fractures are injuries that predominantly affect athletes. The main cause of their occurrence is excessive physical stress, within which the bone tissue is unable to regenerate. Micro-cracks occur, which, due to chronic overload, are most commonly found on the...
📅 3. 9. 2024
Nutrition for athletes is a big and important topic. The increasing professionalization of sports pushes its participants to pay attention to practically every detail, including nutrition. The fact is that diet has a fundamental impact on athletic performance, and the...
📅 20. 2. 2023
When working with fats on your plate, it is important to do so judiciously. Because they are a concentrated source of energy, it can easily happen that their poorly estimated or measured amount can interfere with the resulting values of...
📅 10. 2. 2023
Anyone who is somewhat involved in nutrition knows that the attempt to precisely calculate the energy balance - the difference between energy intake and expenditure - doesn't work well in practice. The reason is that the behavior of living systems...