Are you an outdoor sporter and always covered in mosquito bites? There is an explanation for this! The body of an athlete is like a five-star restaurant for a mosquito. It’s like this: mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide – and athletes produce it in abundance. Because your metabolism increases significantly during exercise, much more carbon dioxide is produced than when you are at rest. So, unfortunately, as an athlete, you are the perfect prey for these blood-sucking critters…
Another factor is that a warmed-up body has a higher lactic acid production, making you even more attractive to mosquitoes. The mosquitoes do this for a reason. These creatures are looking for protein. Otherwise, they cannot reproduce. The male mosquitoes will never sting you, but it is the females who will catch you.
Do you want to know what you can do best against your mosquito bite(s)? Then read the next page!
