Sports Recovery & Performance Elite athletes typically retire as a result of unresolved injury. The physical and mental toll of competing at the high-end level of sports culminates with the never-ending list of chronic injuries. Instead of enjoying their success, manyathletes are invariably confronted with managing potentially serious health related challenges off the field of glory. End of a long career Performance, recovery, performance, recovery an endless cycle. Many elite athletes are in a chronic `cytokine storm` -a prolonged phase of burn-out. International athletes areconfronted with a range of metabolic challenges due to constant flights at altitude (reduced pressure and oxygen), time differences, chronic hypoxia, fatigue, lactic acid overload and sheer exhaustion. As tissue oxygenation diminishes (hypoxia) the secondaryinflammatory changes and range of injuries increases dramatically. Tissues chronically exposed to hypoxia over express pro-inflammatory cytokine expressions. Over-expression of inflammatory cytokine gene clusters spread, potentiating autoimmune disorders.
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