Football Performance Director Warns Against Pseudoscience

Dr Claire-Marie Roberts receives up to 50 LinkedIn messages weekly offering unproven performance-enhancing products. She cites cryotherapy chambers and oxygen in cans as examples of practices with little scientific evidence behind them.

'It is bordering on exploitation,' Roberts said of the pseudoscience being marketed to football clubs. She noted some sales pitches involve basic scientific misunderstandings, such as claiming to offer more oxygen than the 21% already in the atmosphere. beltedkingfisher.blog