Improve Athletic Performance: Faster and More Complete Recuperation
June 9, 2010 – 2:07 pm | No Comment

Fast and complete recuperation are two of the most important elements of improving your athletic performance – especially if you run a hard training schedule. Faster recuperation means you don’t fall behind: you can fit more training sessions in, and you’re not out of commission for a week or two after a big event. More complete recuperation means your training sessions will be more productive: you’re body is stronger and more fully healed, ready to push harder. And if you can train harder and more often without suffering the negative consequences of over training, your performance will improve, along with your general well-being.

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Boosting Your Energy Levels

Submitted by Bruce on June 9, 2010 – 1:33 pmNo Comment

Boosting Your Energy LevelsRecuperation and healing take energy, and as your body diverts its resources to recovery and repairing itself, you may experience an overall drop in daily energy.  Additionally, cellular wastes can build up and make you feel tired and irritable.  These must be cleansed from your body for full recuperation.

To enhance your energy for recuperation and performance, you need to recharge and cleanse your cells of metabolic wastes, allowing for the boosting of your energy levels more efficiently and naturally.

Your body’s natural energy is produced through a process known as cellular respiration: this is where your cells use the nutrients you’ve ingested through food, along with the air you breathe, and transform them into adenosine triphosphate (ATP) – the fuel for cellular energy.  To enable your body to naturally boost energy levels, your cells need to ‘breathe’ at optimal levels, they require maximum oxygen.

Understanding the oxidative system will provide us the method for increasing your energy levels – to give you that energy boost that your body needs. For cellular respiration to occur, oxygen must be drawn into the cells, where it ’s used to produce energy (if you want to get specific, the mitochondria in our cells use it as a hydrogen acceptor during ATP production to produce water). How is oxygen drawn into the cell? Part of the solution is through the sodium potassium pump, which is what creates a cell’s ‘electrical charge ’. The electrons around the outer membrane and inner nucleus of the cell, going in opposite directions, draw in the oxygen by means of diffusion.  So, a cell’s electrical charge controls the amount of oxygen that can be drawn in, and is in part responsible for how much energy your cells can produce.

This provides us with a means of increasing cellular energy: increase a cell ’s electrical charge. Note that electrical charge is also responsible for the removal of metabolic waste from the cell. If a cell’s charge is low, then metabolic waste accumulates and hinders cellular respiration. If things slow down enough, edema or water retention occurs – the cell’s osmotic pressure become so weak that it loses the ability to expel waste and old body fluids. When a cell’s charge is strengthened, metabolic wastes can be properly disposed of and cellular respiration increased.

Protein Extreme Energy functions to increase cellular electron loads and therefore cellular charge – it adopts the method for increasing cellular energy, naturally. By enhancing cellular respiration, it leads to enhanced energy – it functions as a natural energy booster.
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