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When Working Out Makes You Sick to Your Stomach: What to Know about Exercise-Induced Nausea
The Conversation
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Publication Date
12-29-2020
Abstract
You’re doing it! You’re working out, reaping all those benefits of exercise that have been drilled into your head.
So you’re pedaling your heart out or running like you’re escaping a zombie horde. You’re feeling accomplished, on cloud nine, until … your stomach starts to churn. You may even feel dizzy. Your feelings of accomplishment have turned to agony as you deal with a bout of nausea.
Exercise-induced nausea is quite common, as are exercise-induced gastrointestinal (GI) problems in general, affecting perhaps up to 90% of endurance athletes.
So why does this happen and, more important, how can you prevent it?
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Copyright © 2020, Anne R. Crecelius
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Citation Information
Anne R. Crecelius. "When Working Out Makes You Sick to Your Stomach: What to Know about Exercise-Induced Nausea" The Conversation (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/anne_crecelius/36/
This article is republished under a Creative Commons license. It was originally published on The Conversation, Dec. 29, 2020.