The Importance of Astreas and Informed Sports for Everyone

Keeping You Safe From Substances Prohibited in Sport

You don’t need to be a professional athlete to be concerned about what you’re putting into your body.

This is why Astreas chose to be certified by Informed Sport.

They want professional athletes to be able to use it with confidence, but also want all consumers to feel safe when using Astreas for their mental and physical performance needs.

Informed Consumption

Professional athletes are personally responsible for everything they consume, including avoiding substances prohibited by their governing body. Taking a banned Performance Enhancing Drug, or PED, certainly occurs intentionally, but can also happen accidentally. Even the cleanest athlete can unintentionally consume a banned substance, without knowing they have, until it shows up on a drug test.

This can happen when a product is contaminated during production. Some foods and supplements can contain ingredients that are not on their label because of manufacturing processes that can allow unintended ingredients to become mixed in with the end product. Impurities can make their way into the product during manufacturing due to cross contamination within the supply chain, or careless production practices.

A high level of quality control throughout the manufacturing process is necessary to help assure consistency in the end product, and help assure that no ingredient gets into any product that is not intended to be there.

The Process

All Astreas products must pass rigorous testing before going to market. Informed Sport evaluates the manufacturing process, and tests every unique lot number of Astreas. This includes analysis of the production and manufacturing processes, and blind testing of products purchased through retail sales. Informed Sport tests for substances prohibited in sport, while also monitoring for new emerging threats.

Ingredients Matter

What we put into our body matters not only with regards to sporting regulations, but also in terms of our performance and health. As informed consumers we read labels because we want to know what we’re putting into our body, but when ingredients not listed on the label make their way into products we lose control over what we consume. This is why it’s critical to have a globally recognized company like Informed Sport do both an initial testing, and ongoing testing, of any product we consume. Astreas has researched, and chosen, which specific performance ingredients they want in their products. They want to certify that nothing else gets into your Astreas Energy Truffles.

Performance and Your Health Should Coexist

Over the 35 years that I’ve been competing, and coaching, I’ve been firm about a no doping policy. I’ve made my athletes sign an agreement declaring they won’t take any banned substances, and I take care myself to only put clean nutrients into my body. It goes beyond just performance. There is a reason a substance is banned by a sports governing body, and it isn’t always just because of the potential performance gains. It’s a safety issue, and is about what is best for the health of the athletes.

Bottom Line

Health and fitness takes effort and I don’t want to consume anything other than what I know will improve my overall, long-term, human performance. I use Astreas because it provides the focus and energy I seek, from ingredients I trust. I consume Astreas with confidence knowing that the Informed Sport Certification means they are free of substances banned in sport.