Whereas the thermic effect of carbohydrates is only between 5 and 15%, and even lower for fat, the thermic effect of protein is between 20-35% of energy consumed.¹ This means that your body burns extra calories just by maintaining a high-protein diet. You lose weight with protein. How many extra calories? One recent study found …

Okay, but what type of carbs should the athlete be eating? The reason carbs have a bad reputation is because there are lots of low-quality sources out there, in the form of junk foods and other convenience foods that don’t offer any real nutrition – people fill up on them and pack on the pounds, but are still starving for nutrients. Over consumption of simple sugars (mono and disaccharides), like those found in candy and soda, has also been linked to the onset of type 2 diabetes and obesity. These types of carbs have a high glycemic index, which means they cause your blood sugar to rise rapidly and then eventually crash. The exception to the rule is the simple sugar found in fruits. Because fruits contain fiber, vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants and other goodies, they generally prevent the sugars from being absorbed so rapidly in your system, so you don’t get that crash.

Contrary to what some fad diets would have us believe, carbohydrates are not the enemy. In fact, they are pretty much the athlete’s best friend. Carbs provide the foundation for any serious athlete’s diet. Why? Because anytime you engage in moderate to intense exercise, your body is using glycogen (stored carbohydrates) as its primary fuel source.

Shaun McDaniel is on his way to becoming an international champion. Last week, the twenty four year old New Yorker famous for training in a thrift-store basement (link to original article) unofficially broke the world record that his longtime hero, Paddy Doyle, established in 2008. With a forty-pound weight strapped to his back, Shaun managed to pump out 719 back-handed pushups in an hour, topping Doyle’s previous record of 663. “I didn’t know I could do it,” said Shaun, “I thought it would just be a practice session.”

People ask me all the time how they can get the glow.  Well, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, a vital energy called qi (pronounced chi) circulates throughout our entire body. Qi is the …

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

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.

Healthy 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.

Well known as a spice used in Eastern cooking, turmeric possesses cleansing and anti-inflammatory properties. During and after most workouts, your body has a higher than normal free radical load, and both your electron supply and electron transfer systems become depleted, creating pro-inflammatory conditions. The combination of immunoglobulin concentrate and turmeric found in Protein Extreme Energy very quickly supports the correction of the pro-inflammatory electron depletion.

Organic cocoa does much more than just improve the taste of the product. It supplies more antioxidants than red wine or green tea, helping to fight cancer-causing free radicals in the body.