Diet and food supplements can make a difference when you are doing regular physical activity, but you have to choose carefully and it is not easy to find your own way around the many proposals on the market. This book helps athletes in managing nutrition and choosing supplements that improve athletic performance, based on strong scientific evidence and in complete safety. It covers all the main types of physical activity, from the gym to cycling, from running to crossfit, considering also the needs of special categories of sportsmen, such as senior athletes, diabetics, vegans and paying particular attention to women. Specific nutritional approaches, such as the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting, are also described. 86 data sheets report the features and properties supplements that allow an optimal performance. Each supplement is assigned a score, to allow the reader to evaluate its effectiveness in improving the parameters that influence athletic performance (strength, resistant strength, mass, endurance, weight loss, concentration, recovery).

Authors

Massimo Spattini MD, Specialist in Sports Medicine, Specialist in Nutrition and Dietetics Science. AMIA (Associazione Medici Italiani Antiaging) Vice President - A4M Certification (American Academy of Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine, USA) - AFMCP Certification (Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice, IFM USA). Lecturer at the "Integrated Medicine: Clinical Nutrition, Phytotherapy, Nutraceuticals and Lifestyles in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases " II level Master, San Raffaele University, Rome Lecturer at the AMIA School of Anti- aging Medicine on "Formulations and nutraceuticals adjuvant to motor activity: clinical efficacy, dosage, clinical protocols ". 

Strengths 

• The need to improve the quality of life through proper nutrition, physical activity and dietary supplementation is increasingly felt by the general public and in particular by athletes.
• Former champion of Italian bodybuilding heavyweights
• Scientific director of the magazine Accademia del Fitness, Wellness and Anti-aging