Hello young athlete! 🏃‍♂️🏊‍♀️ Prepare to fuel your brain with the essentials about sports nutrition! 🥦🥤

• Purpose: These are quick ways to get fluids and/or macronutrients during workouts when chowing down on a burger isn't the best idea.
• Fact Check: While many claim to be magical performance enhancers, few are backed by solid evidence. Always be a smart consumer! 🧠🔍

Example: Imagine you're running a marathon. You wouldn't want to munch on a pizza mid-run, right? Instead, a sports gel might be just the quick energy fix you need!

• Organs like the stomach, intestines, liver, gall bladder, and pancreas are where the magic happens.
• These organs use enzymes to break down what you eat.

Example: Think of these enzymes as your body's personal kitchen chefs 👩‍🍳, chopping up the big food molecules into smaller bits your body can use!

• Carbohydrates
  • They become absorbable into our bloodstream only when broken down into simple sugars (e.g., glucose, fructose, galactose).
  • Example: Picture carbs as a LEGO tower. Digestion is like taking the tower apart to use the individual bricks!
• Proteins
  • They're ready for the bloodstream after being broken into amino acids or smaller chains.
  • Example: Proteins are like pearl necklaces. Digestion is like breaking them into individual pearls!