Is there a way past the Bielsa/Pochettino wall?

[StartingPrice]

Mrs BC talks a similar language to you (she's qualified in nutrition and herbal witch doctory), always talking about gut bacteria, the beneficial properties in banana skins and trying to rub magnesium juice on my tennis elbow and wotnot.

Just hope she's not a urine drinker...

@Lemon - I'm not an expert and haven't gone into it in the detail that you have. But I think Poch said in a recent interview that him and his team have been working hard to arrive at a good condition (seems to be an idiomatic thang) specifically for this part of the season. So maybe he's has become aware of the issue with late season fatigue and been working at a solution.

After all, the only players who seem to be in seriuos danger of burn-out are the two that everyone knows we are lacking suitable cover for - Dier and Kane. And given the number of games they have played, I suspect that they would be feeling it no matter what methods were used. He appears to be more aware, and systematically compensating for, the demands put on full-backs in his system than he did at Southampton.

He seems like a pretty smart guy and his assistants do too. So I can only go back to this comment and hope that it indicates an awareness of the problem and an attempt at a solution.

 

[Lemon]

Mrs BC talks a similar language to you (she's qualified in nutrition and herbal witch doctory), always talking about gut bacteria, the beneficial properties in banana skins and trying to rub magnesium juice on my tennis elbow and wotnot.

Good stuff.

Magnesium may be of great help, however the Magnesium in the topical is usually Magnesium Chloride, but I like Magnesium Sulphate (well hydroxide internally is the most pleasing but sticking to topical), you see that if you use Mag Chloride the bond is quite weak, so if you use too much your body may absorb the Mag but the chlorides may be left, which will create chlorine gas, now what do we kill bacteria with at the swimming pool? Chlorine! (unless it's ozone or uv etc) If you use Mag Sulphate you have no such concerns, rather the sulphate may be of great use to the body and somewhat replace the need for the Glucosmine that is added to the joint Mag Chloride, plus it costs a pittance (you can get 20kg bags for around £25 delivered, it's insanely cheap).

Though this may enhance the need for a good complexed source of iodine (Kelp for me) as the Sulphur may antagonise thyroid iodine in some (however so may the lower atomic weighted halides, bromide, floride, chloride, very often Bromine from baking as a proving agent for example, Chlorine if you swim regularly, fluoride if you are drinking fluoridated water).

IMO our team baths/showers should be cleaned of chlorides etc and rich doses of Mag Sulphate added (would have tri head showers = Hot, Hot+MgSO4, Very Cool). The players would be expected to either bath or Shower in the MgSO4 for 15mins+ before finishing on cold until the skin is cool.

This cheapness, yet sophistication, is what I expect from Spurs, but don't feel we are progressive enough yet.

 

[Lemon]

It staggered me that when in SCBU they wanted to give my daughter sucralose after bloods each time, this is a halide bomb for the thyroid, I immediately objected, then was confronted the next day by the lead consultant and 5 other medical staff to relay their nurses had problems with this. When I broke down sucralose chemically and relayed it was an adjunct that I did not want for my daughter theirs mouths were agog! After that the entire tone of our interactions dramatically changed.

To understand this you may peruse the results of 'Sucralose Thyroid'
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=floridated water&ie=&oe=#q=sucralose thyroid

Some times I can't understand the Hippocratic Oath, or how Physicians interpret it. As to my mind this is clearly placing someone at risk of harm for something which has no impact on the efficacy of the procedure being followed. Effectively,