The Life Health Secrets team is pleased to welcome Tara DiLuca aboard as the newest contributor to the blog. She’ll be blogging under the name ‘fit law girl.’ Tara is one of those high-energy, high-achiever people, to put it mildly – while working as a litigation lawyer, she’s won 1st place in the women’s 55 meter hurdles at the Colgate Women’s Games, Madison Square Gardens, every year since 2007 and just recently placed 1st in the 100 meter hurdle event at the 2009 USATF East Regional Track & Field Outdoor Championships, amongst other achievements.

It’s almost too good to be true – a product that helps build muscle, repair tissue at an accelerated pace, is eight times stronger than whey protein, and helps you recover faster from your workouts! All this plus helping athletes and bodybuilders give their immune systems the boost they need.

To summarize the benefits in bullet point form, the benefits of Protein Extreme Energy include:

* boosts and strengthens the immune system
* gets more amino acids into muscle cells throughout the body
* promotes muscle tissue growth, regeneration, and strengthening
* initiates the transport of nucleic acids into the cell nucleus, where the DNA resides
* provides the raw material needed to repair damage to the DNA and initiate cell division
* supports reduction of Pro-inflammatory cytokines
* helps in post-exercise recovery
* beneficial in repairing extreme muscle rips

Do you feel constantly tired and run down? Do you need caffeine and sugar to get you through the day? Are you under frequent mental or physical stress? Do you have trouble coping with stress? Do you have a decreased sex drive? Are you frequently depressed or angry? Do you engage in frequent extreme exercise? Do you often have an upset stomach? Do you overeat and/or have experienced significant weight gain? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you may be overburdening your adrenals and producing an excess amount of cortisol.

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My training regiment leading up to a competition is intense and I need a lot of energy. For 16 weeks prior to a fitness show, I work out twice a day, 6 days a week in order to look great on stage. I need a protein supplement that won’t leave me lethargic and bloated and won’t upset my stomach.

Nourishing the adrenals alone is not enough, however – stimulating the adrenals without opening the surrounding pathways of the nervous system (or, from the viewpoint of Chinese Medicine, the meridians) is like increasing the output of an electricity generator in a home with faulty wiring. Sooner or later, the whole thing will short circuit, and you may end up burning out your generator (adrenals). This is how an aggressive adrenal stimulant such as caffeine or sugar can eventually drain your entire system.

ealthy cells are the building blocks to a healthy body, and translate into more core energy and better sports performance. When your cells aren’t functioning properly, metabolic wastes accumulate and can cause inflammation, poor nutrient assimilation and other sorts of complications that impact your health.

Immediately after the race I was feeling pretty bad, but after a few hours I went out to eat with my family and then got in my car and drove back to NYC. The next day I worked a full day and was a little rough, but by Tuesday I was feeling great and today [Wednesday – 3 days after the marathon] I went for a bike ride and felt like I was completely recovered from the marathon, I had an amazing amount of energy.

Energy level is pretty high. Normally yesterday would have been the end of the 2nd week in a 3 week cycle (2 weeks of build/1 recovery…”normal” protocol for an athlete my age), but I actually feel well enough to see what it would be like to try a 4 week cycle of 3 weeks of build/1 recovery, just like the good old days. I’ll know more after my tempo run tomorrow, but so far, I’m really impressed with my recovery.