Take a deep breath
In my experience, running athletes often assume that breathing through the mouth is superior given it allows greater amount of oxygen,...
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capralab
- 18 déc. 2020
- 5 Min
Beyond the Impossible?
Plant-based meat is no longer a novelty, it’s available pretty much everywhere and the market is growing. Whether for health, ethical or...
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capralab
- 5 déc. 2020
- 6 Min
Get out and shine
Vitamin D is an extremely hot topic at present, it is everywhere: in newspapers, research articles, blogs and tweets from the medical...
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capralab
- 26 oct. 2020
- 4 Min
Let’s get pickled!
Are you regularly consuming fermented foods such as kimchi, kefir, sauerkraut, sourdough bread, cheeses or even cured olives? If they are...
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capralab
- 15 oct. 2020
- 4 Min
Gut feeling
Do you know that our gut microbiome actually changes with each season? How can natural temporal variation in diet can affect the...
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capralab
- 3 oct. 2020
- 6 Min
Could cheese be the answer?
Scientists have long been debating the French Paradox – the biogeographic observation of lower than expected mortality from...
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capralab
- 5 juin 2020
- 5 Min
“Liquid gold” or fool’s gold
In ancient Greece, olive oil was not only used for consumption and cooking, but also in medicine and cosmetics. Homer referred to olive...
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capralab
- 23 mai 2020
- 5 Min
Cocktail of E Numbers
How often do you pay attention to additives and preservatives in foods? I must admit I started digging into this topic when I first...
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capralab
- 16 mai 2020
- 5 Min
Soil-less or soul-less plants?
We are rapidly moving towards a high-tech environment for food production. Whether synthetically produced products or artificially...
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capralab
- 21 avr. 2020
- 4 Min
Procaffeinating
Some of you are probably missing high quality freshly brewed coffee during the lock-down. For many of us coffee drinking is part of our...
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capralab
- 10 avr. 2020
- 3 Min
Spring is in the air!
That’s our fourth week of strict lock-down and although we can still expect another three weeks at least, there is a sense that ” Now...
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capralab
- 26 mars 2020
- 5 Min
To bee or not to bee
My deeper dive in the honey world started when we opened a jar of Corsican honey, mysteriously called “autumn honey”, and immediately...
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capralab
- 15 mars 2020
- 3 Min
What’s one of the best way to learn about yourself and others?
Can’t fool yourself Ultra trail would usually not come to mind as one of the best way to learn about oneself. Love of running/hiking,...
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capralab
- 1 mars 2020
- 5 Min
Should I switch to an all-plant diet & whom can I trust?
That’s a question I have been asked many times over the past 2 months. I’ve also pondered this choice a few years ago after reading Scott...
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capralab
- 24 févr. 2020
- 3 Min
Older but not Wiser
The last long run before race day Yesterday was the last significant training session before entering the two-week tapering period before...
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capralab
- 11 févr. 2020
- 3 Min
Re-visiting Wim Hof to climb Mt Teide
Watching the sun rise from the top of the Teide at 3,718m is an unforgettable experience. To get the summit for sunrise requires either...
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capralab
- 9 févr. 2020
- 3 Min
Can Flow be taught?
One aspect I enjoy while training for an ultra trail is the 6-10 hours run/hike in the mountain necessary to prepare the body and mind...
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capralab
- 12 janv. 2020
- 3 Min
Food for thoughts
One of the advantages moving to a small village in Corsica was to be able to eat fresh pesticide-free local produces, rich in vitamins...
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capralab
- 8 janv. 2020
- 3 Min
What’s a similarity between investing and training?
On the 3rd of January at 7am we drove off the ferry into Ajaccio, where we stopped for an early breakfast and to get some fresh vegetable...
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capralab
- 31 déc. 2019
- 3 Min
Uncommon Beliefs
On our way to Corsica, we stopped in Montpellier, where the family is gathering this year to celebrate Christmas and New Year. Scanning...
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