{"id":4899,"date":"2012-11-20T21:32:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inveske.co.uk\/post-meet-reality-part-1-respiratory-infection\/"},"modified":"2012-11-20T21:32:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:32:40","slug":"post-meet-reality-part-1-respiratory-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/post-meet-reality-part-1-respiratory-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Post meet reality \u2013 part 1: respiratory infection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not the first, not the last.<\/p>\n

The massive immunological stress a competition generates is not exactly new to science or to sports specialists. Powerlifting is somewhat extreme in this sense. I just read Howard Penrose\u2019s article<\/a> about his flu and I bet many of us were\/are exactly in the same condition.<\/p>\n

What I didn\u2019t know was that athletes were more prone to respiratory infections after a heavy stimulus (there can be nothing heavier than a World Championship).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been ill for three days already. I believe that the fact that my sleep, which is always a mess, was even more seriously disrupted by the time zone change has something to do with this. I competed on November the 8th<\/sup>, refereed on the 9th<\/sup> and 11th<\/sup> (6 hours involvement both competing and refereeing), had ridiculous amounts of sleep until we left Las Vegas on the 12th<\/sup> and then rested very little while in Ohio, which we left after a sleepless night on the 16th<\/sup> of November.<\/p>\n

As soon as I got here, in DC, I believe on the 17th<\/sup>, I already had the first symptoms of a viral respiratory infection.<\/p>\n

For some reason, I thought that the fact that I remained happy would protect me from any infection, which makes sense, at least a little bit: post meet depression obviously potentiates the inflammatory effect of the exercise induced stress response. But, hey! No sleep and junk food are tough to counteract with a smile.<\/p>\n

I am not sure if this would be avoidable at all with any measure within my reach given the circumstances, I\u2019ll have to figure this out later.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there\u2019s another meet in 10 days which I must be in shape for. So, time to use all recovery tools available: supplements, rest, lot\u2019s of fluids.<\/p>\n

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Read more:<\/p>\n

Sport, immune system and respiratory infections.<\/a><\/p>\n

Exercise-induced asthma, respiratory and allergic disorders in elite athletes: epidemiology, mechanisms and diagnosis: part I of the report from the Joint Task Force of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) in cooperation with GA2LEN.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Not the first, not the last. The massive immunological stress a competition generates is not exactly new to science or to sports specialists. Powerlifting is somewhat extreme in this sense. I just read Howard Penrose\u2019s article about his flu and I bet many of us were\/are exactly in the same condition. What I didn\u2019t know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20,1225,60,1120],"tags":[1270,1560,15,1561,1562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}