At Scala Precision Health, we’ve developed programs for athletes of all levels in a variety of sports, including basketball, baseball, football, tennis and golf. Russ Scala personally tested and created protocols for athletes from the Celtics and Yankees, along with professional endurance athletes.
In 1984, it was groundbreaking to test for hormonal and nutritional deficiencies in athletes. Everyone was looking for an edge in performance and recovery–and the next new supplement to take. With his background in physiology, Russ knew to look at treating multiple metabolic systems as a whole.
In 1995, Russ began examining athletes on the cellular level to determine mitochondrial function and investigate intestinal flora. Your mitochondria create energy at the cellular level–every move you make involves the mitochondria–they are the cornerstone of athletic performance.
Traditional research has typically ignored the microbiome as an area to enhance performance. You are not what you eat, you are what you absorb. The gut-brain connection also influences hormone production and other metabolic processes.
We know today that enhancing performance is multi-factorial and must be personalized to each athlete’s biomarkers. Modern testing has become more specific in the area of biochemical individuality (i.e., personalized performance).
Scala Precision Health has always understood that each athlete is biochemically unique and there is no one diet, supplement or training program for everyone.