Disorded Eating + Dietary Nitrate

Question 1

What is Nitrous oxide?

Answer 1

Nitric oxide is produced by nearly every type of cell in the human body

It’s a vasodilator, meaning it relaxes the inner muscles of your blood vessels, causing the vessels to widen.

Versions of nitrate to micro oxide occurs when decreases in O2

Question 2

What are the side effects of Nitrous oxide?

Answer 2

Pink urine
Saliva
Increase link to gastric cancer

Question 3

Failure to increase energy levels when EE increases what?

Answer 3

Short-term restrictive diet <30kcals / kg / FFM / day

Intentional but mismanaged efforts to reduce body size fat

Question 4

Critical eating disorders create?

Answer 4

Abnormal eating behaviours

Distorted body image

Weight fluctuations

Medical complications

Variable athletic performance

Question 5

Optimum EA

Answer 5

45 kcal/KG/FFM/day

Bodily functions substantially affected at <30 kcal/KG/FFM/day

Question 6

Health implications of low energy availability

Answer 6

Immunological

Menstrual malfunction

Bone health

Metabolic

Question 7

Affects of LEA on males and females

Answer 7

Male:
Reduced tesosterone
Reduced leptin
Reduced insulin

Female:
Alters thyroid function
Alters appropriate hormones
Reduced insulin and increased growth hormone