OUR STORY

For two decades, PacificHealth Laboratories has had a singular mission: develop innovative nutrition products based on cutting-edge research and top notch, natural ingredients.

To achieve this goal, PacificHealth collaborates with many of the world’s top nutritionists, biochemists and sports scientists. We are proud that this collaboration with the scientific community has resulted in discoveries that have reshaped our understanding of sports nutrition.

We also feel that part of our mission is to provide serious athletes the latest information on how to improve exercise performance. This is part of PacificHealth Laboratories continuing commitment to help triathletes, endurance athletes, coaches, and trainers safely raise the level of athletic performance.

Our Founder

Dr Robert Portman is a well-known sports scientist in the United States whose research has focused on the impact of nutrition on athletic performance and muscle recovery. He has been a pioneer in the development of nutritional formulations that combine carbohydrate and protein and is responsible for creating and developing the first sports drink specifically engineered to facilitate muscle recovery following exercise.

Books

The Books That Changed The Science

Dr. Portman has co-authored three books with Dr. John Ivy. Their first book, Nutrient Timing, has been called, “the next important nutrition concept in the 21st Century”. Nutrient Timing dramatically changed the role nutrition plays in performance and its principles have been universally incorporated in the training regimen of athletes at all levels. The second book, The Performance Zone, creates a nutrition action plan so that every athlete can utilize nutrition to enhance endurance and raise athletic performance. The latest book, Hardwired for Fitness, uses the latest science to demolish myths that serve as a barrier to getting fit. Hardwired for Fitness shows how, by resynchronizing your body’s natural biologic rhythms, you unleash a powerful arsenal of metabolic weapons to help you get and stay in shape.

THE INNOVATION TIMELINE

1997

Identified recovery window (45 minute interval post-exercise)

1998

Discovered the effect of a 4:1 carb-protein ratio on muscle recovery

1999

1st Recovery Drink (Endurox R4)

2000

1st of 18 studies showing superiority of Endurox R4 over other recovery drinks

2001

1st Protein-Powered Sports Drink (Accelerade)

2002

Study shows Accelerade increases endurance 29% compared to carb-only drinks

2003

1st Protein-Powered Gel (Accel Gel)

2005

Study shows Accelerade reduces muscle damage by 83% vs. carb sports drinks

2006

Study shows Accelerade more effective in rehydrating than water or carb-only drinks

2007

Study shows Accel Gel increases endurance and reduces muscle damage vs. carb gel

2009

Study shows Endurox R4 activates dual signaling pathway for protein synthesis

2011

1st energy gel for brain and muscle fatigue (2nd Surge)

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