Still relatively new to the sports world, immunoglobulins are bioactive proteins that provide a wide range of benefits that traditional proteins don ’t. Not only do they help to build muscle, they also repair tissue at an accelerated pace, promote a healthy inflammatory response, and boost the immune system – all vital to successful athletic recuperation.

What are Immunoglobulins?

Immunoglobulins are also known as antibodies. They are plasma proteins used by our immune systems to seek out, identify and neutralize invading viruses and bacteria. They do this either by marking the offending invader, so other cells can come and destroy it, or by binding directly to it, effectively preventing it from causing infection. In other words, immunoglobulins are immune system boosters.

How Immunoglobulins Boost Our Immune System

Immunoglobulins are also a component of human breast-milk, helping to protect babies from illness and build a strong immune system for life. Clinical studies have shown immunoglobulin supplementation to help the body retain the protein it needs to build muscle, increase lean muscle mass, reduce the levels of inflammatory cytokines in the gut, reduce the number of sick days and even lower cholesterol. Immunoglobulins boost our immune systems and help strengthen an athlete’s body.

How to Boost Your Immune System

The main reason immunoglobulins have not been used as a protein supplement and as a supplement to boost our immune system until recently has been due to high cost and limited quality supply. Our favorite high-quality immunoglobulin-based protein that includes several other natural recovery-enhancing agents and is used by elite athletes is Protein Extreme Energy.

The benefits of immunoglobulins 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

Feel the difference as to how a bioactive protein can help your performance and boost your immune system.

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• promote longevity
• protect the body from heart disease
• prevent diabetes
• neutralize arthritis
• help to treat asthma and bronchitis
• reduce the effects of psoriasis
• reduce chronic fatigue syndrome and lupus
• boost the immune system

There are over 80,000 medical articles discussing glutathione.  Glutathione is your body’s master regulator of each cell.

Glutathione is produced naturally in your body and is a combination three building blocks of amino acids – cysteine, glutamine, and glycine.

Why You Need Glutathione

Glutathione is absolutely necessary for everyone to maintain a healthy immune system. Every major system in the body is affected by glutathione as it circulates through the body removing waste products and toxins while also giving energy a boost. When your body has high amounts of glutathione, it’s able to fight off minor illnesses quickly while keeping up your energy and alertness.

Glutathione is the primary antioxidant in your body. As free radicals and other dangers get passed from one place to another, they eventually wind up with the glutathione which helps to break the free radicals down and recycle them. Troubles begin to mount when the number of toxins is greater than the amount of glutathione in your system.

Without high amounts of glutathione, the body is hugely susceptible to the dangerous toxins and illness pervades. The lowest levels of glutathione have been found in the sickest members of our oldest generation. Time, exposure to the elements and natural aging effects decrease these levels, and if this continues unchecked, it can have a devastating impact on overall health.

Where Do These Toxins Come From?

For the first few thousands of years humans existed, the primitive glutathione system was able to handle any of the dangerous substances that found their way into the body. In just the last few decades, humans have begun a diet of processed, unhealthy foods and live in an area polluted with any number of toxins in the water we drink and the air we breathe. Many of us have been exposed to heavy metals and might have mercury fillings in our teeth. Thanks to our current diet and living conditions, it’s estimated that half of the population is lacking sufficient glutathione levels. They can’t fight off these toxins.

What Happens to Your Glutathione Levels

Glutathione levels can drop as much as 35% thanks to aging, physical stress and exercise. As glutathione is so closely linked to the body’s energy, this decrease in glutathione causes an energy decrease as well as the remaining glutathione is used for more critical jobs. The remaining glutathione is needed to fight off free radicals to prevent waste from building up, preventing the body’s cells from working properly, and the body’s cells don’t absorb vital nutrients. In this catabolic state, the body begins to break down.

Glutathione in Your Diet

It’s important to support the glutathione levels in the body, but it’s not obvious how to build up stores. Glutathione is produced by the body’s cells. To raise levels of glutathione, you must stimulate the body to produce it. This is done by consuming the building blocks of glutathione through some vitamins and nutritional supplements.  The best way to ensure the body has sufficient glutathione levels is through the consumption of direct glutathione supplements, such as GSH Ignite .

Supplements that lead to increases in glutathione are beneficial for everyone. Even individuals in good health can prevent future diseases and health concerns by raising glutathione levels. Young people especially can benefit by taking glutathione supplements as there will be greater health benefits over time as free radicals are constantly prevented from causing harm over years. However, while healthy adults benefit from glutathione supplements, those who are suffering from a medical condition have a more dramatic reaction to the antioxidant. Glutathione has created impressive results in regard to AIDS, Parkinson’s disease and cancer. High glutathione levels actually allow the body to heal itself.

The body produces glutathione, so taking a glutathione supplement to lead to this production does not create side effects or any dangers. Even healthy individuals lose glutathione stores as the body works to fight off the mercury, cigarette smoke and countless other toxins in the air. Supplements at any level of health are beneficial as you might be actively working to prevent diseases thought to be caused by aging, but truly caused by expose to free radicals over time.

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To summarize the benefits in bullet point form, the benefits of bioactive proteins found in 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

From these points you can see why serious athletes and body builders nationwide have been incorporating Protein Extreme Energy into their daily regime.

How will Protein Extreme Energy help me build muscle?

Protein Extreme Energy offers a supply of high quality bioactive protein, and helps to maintain a positive nitrogen balance, essential for the retention of dietary protein. Combined with weight training, Protein Extreme Energy allows you to build muscle quickly and easily.

Why not just use whey powder?

In addition to being fifteen times stronger than whey protein isolate, containing 45% Immunoglobulin G as opposed to whey protein isolate’s 3% level, Protein Extreme Energy is far more bio-available because it is the only protein source that does not require high temperatures for raw material to be made. This means the un-altered amino acid sequences found in Protein Extreme Energy are far more digestible than those found in whey protein isolate, not to mention far stronger with eight times more IGF-1 and other immunoglobulin. This leads to a significant increase in your level of protein synthesis and nitrogen retention that allows your body to use more of the protein you eat and allows it to remain usable for a longer period of time.

This puts your body in the most anabolic state it has ever been in.

The only two times in your life that your body has had elevated levels of immunoglobulin was if you were breast fed as an infant and when your body transitioned from adolescence to adulthood. It takes a healthy adult approximately one full day for their body to produce the amount of immunoglobulin that is made available within just six hours of having a scoop of Protein Extreme Energy.

What is a positive nitrogen balance in the body?

This simply means that less protein is excreted from the body than is consumed. Protein loss occurs primarily through urine, though it can be lost through all other bodily fluids, including sweat, fecal matter, saliva, menstruation and ejaculation. A positive nitrogen balance allows the body to retain the protein inputted through diet and utilize it in synthesizing new tissue – building up your muscles.

I am an athlete/bodybuilder, why should I be worried about my immune system?

It has long been known that during intensive physical activity and training, the immune system is suppressed, thus rendering the athlete more vulnerable to infection. This immuno-suppressant effect lingers for hours after a workout, causing further exposure to harmful bacteria and viruses abundant in our environment, with few defenses to prevent them from wreaking havoc.

How does Protein Extreme Energy boost my immune system?

Protein Extreme Energy is a unique product designed to boost the immune system in a way that no other supplement can. It is a source of natural antibodies and also provides a supply of both immunomodulatory and growth-promoting peptides, essential components of any serious athlete or body builder’s regime. These include Immunoglobulins (IgG), Insulin Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1), and Transforming Growth factor-beta (TGFB).

So which component does what, exactly?

IgG, a type of Immunoglobulin, is proven to protect against pathogens, thus relieving strain on the immune system.

IGF-1, or Insulin Growth Factor-1, has been demonstrated to augment the transport of amino acids into muscle cells throughout the body, regenerating, strengthening, and growing these tissues after workout. It is produced primarily in the liver through the conversion of Human Growth Hormone (HGH). HGH, secreted by the pituitary gland, is essential for growth and optimal immune system performance. European researchers have established that IGF-1 is responsible for initiating the transport of nucleic acids into the cell nucleus, where the DNA resides, thus providing the raw material needed to repair damage to the DNA and initiating cell division.

In a recent study (unpublished) it has been observed through laboratory analysis that the concentration of IGF-I in Protein Extreme Energy is not different from the concentration of IGF-I already present in human serum.  A similar concentration of IGF-I in the product compared to normal human serum has these advantages: 1) No expected change in the way the product would influence normal, healthy cells than would normal serum;  and, 2) For damaged tissue, IGF-I at normal levels in serum has been shown to have a positive effect on the repair process.   The study completed on this topic by measuring IGF-I concentrations in healthy adults in a clinical trial and observed no change in circulating IGF-I levels.

TGFB, or Transforming Growth factor-beta is anti-inflammatory, helps in post-exercise recovery, and is beneficial in repairing extreme muscle rips.

How much Protein Extreme Energy should I take?

For best results, drink one scoop of Protein Extreme Energy mixed with 8-12 oz. of  cold water upon waking and one scoop of Protein Extreme Energy as a post workout drink.  In addition, drink approximately sixteen ounces of water within thirty minutes and one ounce for every two pounds of body weight throughout the rest of your day.

Why do I need to drink water?

All protein pulls water from your system, which can cause dehydration and further lead to gas, fever, nausea and diarrhea. The protein in Protein Extreme Energy has a very high rate of absorption and adequate water intake is crucial for ensuring the best results are obtained.

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Immune-Boosting

Immunoglobulins are antibodies – proteins that your immune system uses to fight against intruding viruses and bacteria. Over 60 clinical studies have been published on the therapeutic effects of Immunoglobulins. The hormone-free immunoglobulin concentrate in Protein Extreme Energy is similar to the colostrum found in breast milk, serving both as a supply of high-quality, absorptive protein and as an immune booster. It delivers antibodies to your gut where they fight against disease-causing organisms and inflammation, allowing your body more energy for other tasks. Unlike antibiotics, which destroy both good and bad bacteria, immunoglobulins only work against the bad bacteria, for optimal immune health.

Our immunoglobulin concentrate provides two and one-half times the Immunglobulin G (IgG) found in colostrum, and fifteen times that found in whey isolate. IgG responds against pro-inflammatory cytokines, binding to pathogens and protecting the body from their effects. It has been shown to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines by up to 95%, resulting in significant improvement in colon health and a systemic reduction of whole body inflammation.

Immunoglobulins have also been shown to help improve liver function, leading to a reduction in LDL (bad) cholesterol. A recent study found that men and women with moderately high cholesterol, 210 to 270 total count, had a 6% drop in total cholesterol after just three weeks of taking an immunoglobulin supplement. More importantly, LDL cholesterol, or the “bad” cholesterol most closely associated with heart disease, decreased by 7% while HDL, the “good” cholesterol, remained constant.

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