{"id":151308,"date":"2025-11-24T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151308\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:40:19","slug":"can-supplements-boost-my-athletic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151308\/","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.newsbeep.com\/nz\/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":151309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64530,64533,64528,64529,64532,64534,134,54878,8284,64527,64526,64525,64531,64524,111,139,556,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-151308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-harvard-health","9":"tag-harvard-health-letter","10":"tag-harvard-health-publications","11":"tag-harvard-health-publishing","12":"tag-harvard-heart-letter","13":"tag-harvard-women","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-health-information","16":"tag-health-news","17":"tag-health-newsletter","18":"tag-health-newsletters","19":"tag-health-report","20":"tag-health-harvard-edu","21":"tag-medical-information","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nutrition","25":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}