{"id":310687,"date":"2025-11-24T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/310687\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:10:20","slug":"can-supplements-boost-my-athletic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/310687\/","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\/us\/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":310688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[5129,5132,5127,5128,5131,5133,97,5121,5123,5126,5125,5124,5130,5122,269],"class_list":["post-310687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-harvard-health","tag-harvard-health-letter","tag-harvard-health-publications","tag-harvard-health-publishing","tag-harvard-heart-letter","tag-harvard-women","tag-health","tag-health-information","tag-health-news","tag-health-newsletter","tag-health-newsletters","tag-health-report","tag-health-harvard-edu","tag-medical-information","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}