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The NRG Guard: The Modified Mouth Guard that Allows the User to Install a Sport Solution into a Pocket on the Mouth Guard, Slowly Releasing the Solution

Student Cian Rafferty
School Patrician High School, Rockdaniel Road, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan
Teacher Linda Healy
Venue Dundalk IT
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Abstract

The NRG Guard project aims to aid athletes who encounter issues with digesting highly- concentrated sport solutions, as well as promoting the use of mouth guards in contact sports.

Dietary supplements are becoming increasingly popular among athletes. These solutions are highly concentrated and are consumed very quickly before carrying out exercise. As the athlete’s system is being exposed to high additive content in a short space of time, it leads many athletes to suffer from cramping and nausea.

With the modern game advancing, and players adapting to reach higher performance and fitness levels, sport solutions and supplements have become highly sought after. The NRG Guard aims to eradicate both of the problems highlighted above, leading to a safer environment for the athlete, while allowing them to perform to the best of their ability.

I have investigated various solution makeups, and the temperature range that these tablets dissolve at in saliva when performing exercise. This temperature range was found to be between 38-41 degrees Celsius. The average time taken to dissolve a tablet at this temperature was roughly 23 minutes.

Using this data we can predict that the solution would dissolve at an appropriate rate, where the NRG Guard would provide benefit to the athlete for the given 30-40 minutes per half. The purpose of this investigation is to make a mouth guard that would enable a supplement to dissolve in this time frame. I have investigated different designs for the mouth guard for it to be at its most optimal form.

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