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ACT FAST TO AID RECOVERY

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THE BODY is inflamed, damaged and fatigued at the full-time whistle, writes nutritionist James Morehen. This places the body in a highly sensitive state in the first three to four hours after a match. The following day too.

Recent research from ex-Gloucester captain James Hudson’s PhD shows how resting metabolic rate changes in the days after a match. In the study he assessed 22 Premiership players’

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