{"id":197521,"date":"2025-11-24T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/197521\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:45:40","slug":"can-supplements-boost-my-athletic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/197521\/","title":{"rendered":"Can supplements boost my athletic performance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration of a man standing on a medicine bottle, with his shadow projected behind him looking much larger and more muscular.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/p2-supplementsathlete-ml1225-gi2165335846.jpg\" style=\"height:400px; width:580px\" class=\"ucr-content-image\" data-cr-imageid=\"7d195bc6-3ae8-41a7-a66f-5970a4a16a64\"\/> There seem to be so many opinions about boosting athletic performance with dietary supplements. What do you suggest?<\/p>\n<p>These supplements often contain high amounts of specific vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, but there is little evidence that they do more for athletic performance than following a well-balanced diet. According to the American College of Sports Medicine, an athlete regularly consuming a diet that provides sufficient protein and calories with plenty of fruits and vegetables should not need extra vitamins and minerals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There seem to be so many opinions about boosting athletic performance with dietary supplements. What do you suggest?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[18,2747,2750,2745,2746,2749,2751,135,2739,2741,2744,2743,2742,2748,19,17,2740,508],"class_list":{"0":"post-197521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-harvard-health","10":"tag-harvard-health-letter","11":"tag-harvard-health-publications","12":"tag-harvard-health-publishing","13":"tag-harvard-heart-letter","14":"tag-harvard-women","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-health-information","17":"tag-health-news","18":"tag-health-newsletter","19":"tag-health-newsletters","20":"tag-health-report","21":"tag-health-harvard-edu","22":"tag-ie","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-medical-information","25":"tag-nutrition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115604509643971471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}