ATP energy is also required on occasion, such as for the contraction of muscle cells during exercise and athletic performance, and each of these activities, conscious or not, requires adenosine triphosphate to enable muscular contraction.  As will be discussed, ATP is the source of all of that energy and so the more that can be produced during athletic performance, then the better you will perform.

ATP, and thus energy from ATP, can be produced in a number of ways within your body, such as how it uses its emergency energy store of creatine phosphate to add a phosphate group to adenosine diphosphate to generate the triphosphate. However, that is only useful for a few seconds, and the two major ATP energy creating routes involve cellular respiration of glucose to pyruvate followed either by the aerobic or anaerobic breakdown of that to adenosine triphosphate.

Here is each of these explained in slightly more detail:

Aerobic Respiration

Aerobic respiration proceeds from cellular respiration by using oxygen and an ignition source to burn the fuel:  glycolysis initially converts glucose to pyruvate as the fuel, and then aerobic exercise provides oxygen, with cellular charge as the ignition source. Very similar to a regular fire:  fuel, oxygen and ignition source.  GSH Ignite promotes this ignition of oxygen and pyruvate to generate ATP energy under aerobic conditions.

The aerobic exercise you use to promote this includes jogging,  floor exercises, step-ups and circuit training:  anything that makes you breathe hard. You take in oxygen and use it to ignite the oxidation reaction of pyruvate to ATP, CO2 and water, using up ADP (adenosine diphosphate) in the process. The greater the cellular charge, then the more efficient is the cellular respiration, in the same way that the newer a lighter flint, the faster and for longer it will ignite the gas.

Aerobic respiration is the source of ATP energy for your everyday living and for non-explosive athletic events. It is the phosphate bonds in the unstable ATP molecule that generate energy when they are broken back down to ADP.  If you remove one of the three phosphate groups, then the molecule is much more stable, and in doing that you also liberate 7.3 Kcal/mol of energy¹.

GSH Ignite provides the ignition source that makes best use of the cellular electrical charge that enables your cellular respiration system to operate at maximum efficiency.  Protein Extreme Energy also helps by maximizing that cellular charge on each cell in your body.

Anaerobic Respiration

Anaerobic respiration is respiration without oxygen, and enables adenosine triphosphate to be generated without oxygen being present.  It is not as efficient a means of generating adenosine triphosphate as aerobic respiration, but it can enable rapid short-term ATP energy production for immediate explosive power.

In the absence of oxygen, the pyruvate mentioned above undergoes a form of fermentation that creates lactic acid and adenosine triphosphate. This is sufficient to offer you maximum athletic performance for a period of 2 -3 minutes, after which the lactic acid builds up and you can no longer function without anaerobic respiration. Sprinters use anaerobic conditions, and Usain Bolt can break a work 100m record with just one deep breath. That provides all the ATP needed before lactic acid kicks in.

The more you train, the more you are able to expend energy under low oxygen conditions, and that is why those that train more can run farther at higher speeds than those that train less:  their cellular respiration is more efficient at producing ATP energy from the available oxygen before anaerobic respiration has to make up the balance. Likewise, their muscles can work longer under anaerobic conditions before lactic acid seizes up their muscles, and more oxygen is needed.

GSH Ignite supports cellular respiration, and also destroys the free radicals that are by-products of respiration. Free radical damage results from small oxygenated molecules  that can destroy the membranes of the cells that generate adenosine triphosphate, and GSH Ignite offers the free radical killer glutathione and the enzyme superoxide dismutase that help maintain efficient cellular respiration  through preventing these free radicals from destroying the cells that provide your ATP energy source.

Normal ATP Requirement

Around 160Kg of adenosine triphosphate can be created and used in the human body each day²; although at any one time you will have no more than around 250 grams available for use. In other words, your body can turn over its own weight of this amazing ATP molecule every day and athletes turn over even more ATP.

In summary, cellular respiration is responsible for the production of ATP in the mitochondria of your body cells, and the more effective your cellular respiration in oxidizing glucose ultimately to adenosine triphosphate, then the more ATP energy will be available to you to enable maximum athletic performance.  It is therefore essential that your biochemistry is tuned to producing as much ATP as possible, and that is dependent on many factors, of which cellular respiration is the most important.

By maximizing your cellular charge and reducing the damaging effects of the free radicals that are a natural by-product of the process, you will maximize the production of adenosine triphosphate.

Protein Extreme Energy increases the cellular electrical charge that enables effective oxidation of glucose, and also enables more effective hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate to energy plus ADP, whereas GSH Ignite negates the effects of free radicals and enables maximum efficiency in the conversion of ATP to energy.

1.  Campbell, Neil. Biology, Third Edition. Benjamin Cummings, 1993: 97-101.

2. Törnroth-Horsefield S, Neutze R (December 2008). Opening and closing the metabolite gate. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.
105 (50): 19565–6.

Other reading:

Karp, Gerald (2008). Cell and Molecular Biology (5th edition). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.pp. 194.

ISBN 10-0-470-04217-6.

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Understanding the oxidative system will provide us with the first method for increasing our body’s energy level through cellular respiration. For cellular respiration to occur, oxygen must be drawn into our body’s 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 adenosine triphosphate production to produce water). How is oxygen drawn into the cell? Partly 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 the first method of increasing our body’s energy levels through cellular respiration: 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.

The second method for increasing cellular respiration and the level of our body’s energy can be understood through the reductive system. While oxygen is vital to cellular respiration, it also ‘oxidizes’ the cells, producing harmful free radicals that can damage cell respiration, function and DNA.  Reductive enzymes – with glutathione being the main SOD reductive enzyme – are what protect the cell from these free radicals. When a cell doesn’t have enough glutathione, it attempts to decrease adenosine triphosphate production so as to minimize the free radical damage. Therefore, increasing glutathione & SOD provides us with the second method to increase cellular respiration and our body’s energy. By increasing glutathione and SOD, you balance oxidation with reduction, and allow adenosine triphosphate to increase, thereby increasing your cellular respiration and your body’s energy.

A thorough understanding of these two approaches to increasing the levels of our body’s energy and cellular respiration leads to understanding how two of Life Health Secrets’ supplements work. Protein Extreme Energy functions to increase cellular electron loads and therefore cellular charge – it adopts the first method for increasing cellular respiration. GSH-Ignite adopts the second method – by encouraging healthy glutathione levels it allows adenosine triphosphate production to increase. As such, Protein Extreme Energy and GSH-Ignite take complementary routes to achieving the same goal – enhanced cellular respiration, leading to enhanced body energy in turn leading to enhanced performance.

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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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In some cases, the glucose arriving in the body’s cells are stored for later use. This is particularly true of the liver and muscle cells. In these cells, excess glucose is stored as glycogen for later use. As discussed previously in regard to the best pre-workout meals, eating carbohydrates before exercising is a great way to prepare for a bout of exercise.

Glucose and Glycogen

When you eat a medium to high GI rich food prior to working out, your glucose levels will be affected. The high amounts of insulin released to handle the carbohydrates you just ate will cause blood sugar levels and energy to drop. This condition is temporary, however. Within 15 minutes of beginning an exercise program, the body has effectively processed the bulk of the the carbohydrates and glucose levels return to normal levels while insulin levels fall off.

To avoid the ups and downs of eating carbohydrates directly before exercising, plan to give your body time to properly digest and normalize the food you’ve eaten. Consuming high GI foods within an hour of a competition or intense workout can lower glucose levels and energy as well. Giving your body a bit more than an hour to properly digest foods you eat before a workout will result in a more even distribution of glucose and result in more stable energy supplies.

Glucose and Exercise

Your best option to normalize glucose levels is to eat a low to medium GI food a bit more than an hour before working out. This tops off supplies of glucose and glycogen giving your body the maximum amount of burn time while exercising. Carbohydrates before exercising are likely exactly what you need to perform at your best.

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When you eat carbohydrates with a low glycemic index your body stores the carbohydrates as glycogen in the liver and muscle, and as glucose in the blood. Once stored, your body has a glycogen reserve of roughly 1,800 to 2,000 calories. This is enough to sustain you through 90 to 120 minutes of exercise. Failing to build this critical reserve of stored carbohydrates pre-workout can have significant effects on your performance.

Building Stores of Glycogen

To maximize your workout, it’s important to replenish your glycogen levels (stored carbohydrates) at least two or three hours before starting a moderate or intense work-out routine. Proper timing is required for a simple reason. Your body needs time to digest and store the food as energy.

Hours before exercising, begin storing up glycogen and glucose by eating a meal rich in polysaccharides. Otherwise known as complex carbohydrates, polysaccharides are starchy sugars contained in foods such as breads, pasta, rice and potatoes. Eating a combination of these foods pre-workout will give your body and brain adequate reserves to perform well for up to two hours. After the first 90 to 120 minutes of your workout, you’ll need to replenish your stores by consuming additional carbohydrates while exercising. Eating properly before, during and after your workout can have a dramatic effect on your athletic performance.

Before the workout, avoid simple sugars including mono saccharides and disaccharides. These are best for a quick boost of energy but don’t have the staying power of the complex carbohydrates. Simple sugars, including most fruits, are best following a work-out rather than before. Eating properly before a long workout can also help to stabilize the nausea that can occur with marathons, for example, and prevent low blood sugar which can cause fatigue and light-headedness.

Eating the Right Carbohydrates Pre-Workout

Properly fueling your body with carbohydrates before a workout gives you up to two hours of stored energy in the form of glycogen. If you’re engaging in an activity less than moderate exercise for a minimum of ninety minutes at a time, high glycemic index carbohydrates aren’t especially relevant. Your goal should be to consume enough complex carbohydrates ahead of time to give your body the proper fuel necessary.

Finding the right complex carbohydrates to eat before a workout is as simple as opening the pantry door, but determining how much to eat and when is a bit more complicated.

A moderately active person should be consuming 3 grams of carbohydrates for every pound of body weight per day. This is true if you’re training for 1 hour per day. If you’re exercising for 2 hours daily, you need 4 grams of carbohydrates per day. However, you don’t want to consume your full daily amount of carbohydrates before exercising.

Instead, plan to eat between .45 and 1 gram of carbohydrates per pound of body weight at least 2 hours before training. Ideally, you should be eating these carbohydrates 3 to 5 hours to give your body time to digest the meal and store the energy properly. The carbohydrates consumed pre-workout are part of your daily total.

For example, a 150 pound athlete should consume 68-150 grams of complex carbohydrates at least two hours before exercising. This translates to 2-4 cups of brown rice or beans.

Benefits of Pre-Workout Carbohydrates

Outside of your daily workout regime, fueling your body with the proper amounts of complex carbohydrates has additional long-term benefits. The brain is fueled almost entirely with glucose derived from the carbohydrates in your diet. Keeping a reserve of glucose and glycogen fuels the brain as well as the body.

Foods with a low glycemic index (GI) may also help lower the risk of heart disease and diabetes. Eating vegetables, whole grains and rice provides the necessary energy for your body, but also lowers your risk of diseases such as diabetes, controls your appetite more effectively and helps you avoid adding body fat.

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WHAT TYPE OF CARBOHYDRATES ARE BEST?

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.

Aside from fruits, the other type of carbs you want in your diet are complex carbohydrates. Most complex carbs, or polysaccharides, have a lower glycemic index and so take longer to be broken down in the body, offering sustained energy over a longer time period without causing you to crash. They also provide your body with vital nutrients that tend to be more absorbable than the kind you get from vitamin supplements.

While it’s true there are a few exceptions – for example, white rice and potatoes both have an extremely high glycemic index – in general it’s better not to stress the details too much; glycemic index is only a small part of the story. For example, fructose (as in high fructose corn syrup) and ice cream both have a low glycemic index, and neither is exactly renowned for its health benefits. As long as it’s a healthy meal, our internal body chemistry usually balances things out. White rice eaten with beans, for example will have a lower glycemic index than white rice alone. Fats also lower glycemic index. The main point is to consume whole foods prepared in a healthy manner.

In general, complex carbohydrates should be part of your meals at least 3-5 hours before training or an event. Because they release their energy more slowly and evenly in the body, this ensures that you’ll have the energy you need to perform, and that you won’t be in the process of digesting at game-time. Great sources of complex carbs include brown rice, spelt or kamut bread, lentils, beans, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, brown rice pasta, quinoa, and more.

When Does The Glycemic Index Matter?

If you are training less than 90 to 120 minutes at a moderate level of intensity, high glycemic indexed carbs are noted not to help your body’s energy needs.

If you’re an endurance athlete, then glycemic index matters. High Glycemic carbs are recommended to athletes during prolonged exercise that require quick access to the glucose. Endurance athletes typically need to replenish their carbohydrate levels once they’ve moved beyond the 90 to 120 minute mark. If you’re an endurance athlete, you should be reloading your carbs every 15 to 30 minutes from the time of starting your activity as your core glycogen stores will deplete within 90 to 120 minutes depending on the level of intensity.

What’s the optimal carbohydrate to use? While athletes typically use sports drinks and gels, these sorts of products can have adverse affects on your body in the long term, and have been shown to damage athletes’ teeth. However, they’re currently the best products we’ve got, and are reasonably effective.

SUMMARY: POINTS TO REMEMBER

• Eat 60% carbohydrates at every meal, along with 20% protein and 20% healthy fat.

• Eat complex carbs at least 3-5 hours before training or competition.

• If you are training past 90-120 minutes, then you will need to reload using a source of high glycemic carbohydrates every 15-30 minutes once you have begun your activity.   It is suggested that you will need to replenish ½ gram of carbs every ½ hour.

• It takes 20 hours to replenish your body’s glycogen from carbohydrates after daily training.

• Calculate your daily carbohydrate needs (see above for chart and formula).

• Carbohydrates come from grains, legumes, fruits and starchy vegetables.

• Great sources include brown rice, spelt or kamut bread, lentils, beans, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, brown rice pasta, quinoa, and pretty much any fruit.

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Carbs are stored as glycogen in the liver and muscle, and in the blood as glucose. Glycogen stores provide about 1,800 to 2,000 calories worth of energy, or enough fuel for approximately 90 to 120 minutes of continuous vigorous activity. If you don’t replenish your supply of carbs pre and post workout, then your body can’t replenish its own supply of glycogen. This means that the fuel you need isn’t there when your body needs it, and performance suffers. Also, your brain is fueled by glucose, which comes from breaking down carbohydrates. Considering your entire body depends on your brain for coordination, you want to keep it running well.

Are you getting enough carbs?

Making sure you have enough carbs isn’t just about eating a bowl of pasta the night before the big game. As an athlete, your daily diet should consist of 60% carbohydrates (the other 40% is divided equally between protein and fat, but we’ll get to that later) in order to ensure that you consistently have enough glycogen stored for training. If your glycogen stores are depleted, then you’ll have less energy, and your training won’t be as productive, so don’t skimp on the carbs. How much you need depends on your body weight, level of activity, and whether you’re male or female.

Here’s a quick formula for approximately how much you should be getting daily:

Your body weight in kilograms x carbs in grams per kg of bodyweight (see chart below)

= your daily carbohydrate needs

Daily carbs in grams per kg of bodyweight            Training Level

3g                                                                                      no training

4-5g                                                                                  3-5 hrs/wk of moderate exercise

5-7g                                                                                  6-10hr/wk training

7-9g                                                                                  10-15hrs/wk training

more than 10g                                                               15+hrs week

The first number corresponds to females, the second to males, though you can adjust it to what feels right for you.

So, for example, a male weighing 177lb or 80.29kg (to convert to kg, multiply by 0.4536) who trains 6-10 hours a week will require

80.29 x 7  = 562.03 grams of carbohydrates per day, maximum

A female weighing 135lbs, or 61.234 kg, who trains 3-5 hours a week will require

61.234 x 4 = 244.94 grams of carbohydrates per day, minimum

To give you a rough idea of what this translates into, 1 cup of pasta translates into 40g of carbohydrates, 1 cup of brown rice 45g, 1 cup of pinto beans, 44g.

To continue to Part II:  Part II Carbohydrates: The Body’s Core Fuel For Energy

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Building Strength & Explosive are Critical to Peak Athletic Performance

Compare two athletes of the exact same body size and build, who have followed the same training regimen – they don’t necessarily have the same power, speed or explosive capacity. Why? Once athletes attain a certain level of strength and stamina, the difference in their capabilities comes down to their bodies’ bio-electric current flow. The stronger the current flow, the stronger the body, and the more explosive power and strength you have access to.

Bio-electric current, also known as cellular zeta-potential, is the movement of electrons through your cells and consequently, through your body. The moving electron is literally the catalyst for the chemistry of life – a body completely stripped of moving electrons is a dead body. Current is especially important to athletes because it feeds the nerves which then feed the muscles. More current = more explosive power, when all else is equal. However, the rigorous training athletes undergo tends to deplete current, and if they allow a deficit to build over time, eventually their bodies become depleted and their explosive power diminishes. The younger athletes with the stronger current win because they haven’t yet exhausted their systems.

A strong electron transfer system, along with an abundant supply of electron donors, is important to the athlete because it strengthens cellular respiration and cellular charge (membrane potential) – both of which are essential to explosive power and strength.

First, let’s look at why cellular respiration is important. Just like you have the lungs, you have 60-100 trillion small lungs in your body – your cells. If those cells are ‘breathing’ at their optimum capacity, then they can increase ATP production, providing you with more energy for explosive power, to move your muscles. The best way to increase cellular respiration? By increasing current, or the supply and transfer of electrons.

If you’ve taken the time to do a bit of research, then you know there’s a dilemma all athletes face when they’re training: the harder you work out and the more ATP you produce, the more electron-robbing free radicals your body produces, and the faster your cells and DNA become damaged by oxidative stress. Taking a supplement like creatine to increase cellular respiration just makes the problem worse – your body ramps up ATP production without any means of defending its cells against the increased free radical load. Not only does a high free radical load decrease your performance in the medium and long term, it also leads to premature aging.

This is why glutathione supplementation is so important. Glutathione solves the athlete’s dilemma by allowing cellular respiration to increase while protecting cells against free radicals. Glutathione is one of your body’s most powerful electron donors –so powerful, in fact, that we literally can’t survive without it. That’s why our bodies produce it internally. However, as we get older, from as early as 20 years old, our internal glutathione levels begin to drop by as much as 35%. That means that your body slows ATP production as well, to protect against increased free radicals. Remember, ATP is the energy your muscles need for power and explosive strength. By dealing with the free radicals from within the cell, glutathione permits ATP to increase naturally. Greater cellular respiration = more explosive power and maximum strength for athletes.

So is the answer just to take a glutathione supplement? Not so fast. Remember, there are two aspects to the body’s bio-electrical current: cellular respiration and cellular charge (the sodium potassium pump). Cell charge is the second element you need for explosive power and strength. When cellular charge is low, metabolic waste accumulates and cellular respiration is impeded. If this isn’t dealt with, then the cell’s osmotic pressure become so weak that it can no longer expel its own waste and old body fluids, and edema or water retention occurs. The cell has trouble pulling in nutrients and becomes congested. If you don’t increase cell charge, then glutathione supplementation is ineffective, or minimally effective at best, because the cell can’t even pull in the nutrients it needs to function. By strengthening cellular charge, metabolic wastes are efficiently removed and cellular respiration can increase.

So how can an athlete increase current, and by extension increase both cellular respiration and charge?

GSH-Ignite was formulated specifically to address these issues. By providing the body with an ample supply of bio-recognizable electrons, and using proprietary means to transfer and move those electrons throughout the body, GSH-Ignite allows athletes to achieve greater levels of explosive power and strength than they could through training alone. GSH-Ignite strengthens the body’s current and promotes healthy glutathione levels while also increasing cellular charge. The effect? Maximum strength and more explosive power.

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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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Understanding the oxidative system will provide us with the first method for increasing cellular energy. 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? One means 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 the first method 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.

The second method for increasing cellular energy can be understood through the reductive system. While oxygen is vital to cellular respiration, it also ‘oxidizes’ the cells, producing harmful free radicals that can damage cell function, respiration and DNA.  Reductive enzymes – with glutathione being the main SOD reductive enzyme – are what protect the cell from these free radicals. When a cell doesn’t have enough glutathione, it attempts to decrease ATP production so as to minimize the free radical damage. Therefore, increasing glutathione provides us with the second method to increase cellular energy. By increasing glutathione, you balance oxidation with reduction, and allow ATP to increase creating ATP energy, thereby increasing your body’s cellular energy.

A thorough understanding of these two approaches to increasing cellular energy leads to understanding how two of Life Health Secrets’ supplements work. Protein Extreme Energy functions to increase cellular electron loads and therefore cellular charge – it adopts the first method for increasing cellular energy. GSH-Ignite adopts the second method – by encouraging healthy glutathione levels it allows ATP production to increase. As such, Protein Extreme Energy and GSH-Ignite take complementary routes to achieving the same goal – enhanced cellular respiration, leading to enhanced whole body energy for life.

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