ShroomTech Sport and China’s five gold medals in track and field at the 1993 Olympics have something very important in common. How did a track and field team with dismal success in the past dominate the Olympics? Cordyceps sinensis.
It was the 1993 Summer Olympics, the world’s gaze turned towards Beijing, China. Chinese athletes Wang Junxia, Qu Yunxia and Zhang Linli produced five world records from track and field events. Everyone assumed it was due to performance enhancing drugs, but after extensive blood testing and analysis by multiple regulatory agencies, no known performance enhancing drugs were discovered. They asked their coach, Coach Ma, what was different about his athletes’ training regimen and when cornered he told the world his secret. Cordyceps sinensis and turtle blood. Coach Ma, quoted in Track & Field News in 1993 said: “This is what I tell my trainees to drink. This is all natural and Chinese people have been taking it for hundreds of years.”
This was the moment that Cordyceps emerged into the athletic competitor’s radar, never to be forgotten again. Later clinical studies have provided evidence that cordyceps helps the body improve both oxygen utilization and ATP production, two critical aspects for the endurance athlete, and in comes ShroomTech Sport.
ShroomTech™ Sport combines a host of all-natural, competition safe nutrients, led by the traditionally revered Chinese ‘caterpillar mushroom’ cordyceps sinensis. Cordyceps, at one time because of its effectiveness in top athlete performance, was the world’s most expensive nutritional supplement for much of the 20th century. Recent advances in cultivation combined with the publicity from the success at the 1993 Beijing national games have increasingly brought it into scientific interest.
Cordyceps and its extracts are assumed to work by increasing oxygen utilization, increased cellular ATP production and the stabilization of blood sugar metabolism. The presence of adenosine, cordycepin, and cordycepic acid; polysaccharides; vitamins; and trace elements may be, at least partially, the cause for such effects, according to a 2008 article in the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms.
Here’s where ShroomTech Sport differs from products claiming increased energy with high doses of caffeine: an increase in cellular ATP results in a boost of useful energy which contrasts to the perceived increase in energy that occurs from the use of CNS stimulants, such as caffeine, ephedrine, and amphetamines, which ultimately results in an energy deficiency. This is major difference that Shroom Tech™ Sport has over other ‘pre workout’ stimulant based formulas.
ShroomTech™ Sport provides clean energy, a proven track record, and general health benefits. Their exclusive combination of cordyceps mushroom, adaptogens, antioxidants and methyl b12 battles fatigue effectively by providing cellular energy through the production of ATP rather than stimulant based energy. Onnit Labs’ ShroomTech Sport is designed to assist in endurance, quick recovery, and helping you set a new personal best.
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