"The best advice for living a healthy, well-adjusted life eat your vegetables, get a good night's sleep, politely decline when the Jagerbombs appear never really changes. Other nuggets, such as how much protein you should be eating or how to maximise workouts, seem to change every year. But as we wonder whether we should really give sauerkraut another go, science marches on, making tiny strides towards improving our understanding of what's helpful."
"Collagen's effects on your skin might be slightly overstated a 2023 review of more than two dozen trials concluded that supplementation has benefits for hydration and elasticity, but the effects aren't huge. However, there's another reason to take it: a 16-week trial on healthy young men, the results of which were published in July, found it can enhance muscle-tendon stiffness, which appears to improve explosive strength."
"Hot baths might be the next best thing to training up a mountain If you want to do altitude training to improve your endurance in the UK, you're out of luck even Ben Nevis, at 1,345 metres (4,413ft) tall, is a bit short of the 2,000 metres or so where oxygen really starts to thin. But there might be another option:"
Basic lifestyle measures such as eating vegetables, prioritising sleep and avoiding excessive alcohol remain foundational for health. Collagen supplementation produces modest skin benefits for hydration and elasticity, and a 16-week trial found 10 g daily can increase muscle-tendon stiffness and potentially improve explosive strength. Heat exposure after high-intensity interval training produced cross-adaptation benefits in a study: participants who soaked in hot water post-session showed markedly longer time to exhaustion under low-oxygen conditions compared with controls. These findings suggest targeted supplementation and post-exercise heat therapy can complement traditional training and lifestyle measures.
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