To understand how to improve athletic performance and recuperate faster and more completely, it helps to know what it is exactly your body needs to recuperate from after you exercise. The five main recuperation issues athletes face are:

• Repairing and limiting the effects of oxidative stress;
• Healing damaged muscles;
• Recovering from inflammation;
• Fortifying the immune system; and,
• Building back up energy.

While they are separated below for simplicity, in truth each of the problems facing an athlete are interrelated: for example, free radicals can cause inflammation and muscle damage, and inflammation is a response to muscle damage.

The Problem: Oxidative Stress

When you exercise, you produce more free radicals – harmful molecules that can damage cell function and muscle tissue, causing muscle loss and inflammation. Furthermore, high free radical levels can continue to damage your muscles even after you’ve stopped exercising, delaying recuperation time.

The Problem: Muscle Damage

When you exercise intensely, tiny tears appear in your muscle cell membranes – this is called cellular microtrauma, and basically means your muscle tissue becomes damaged. If your body doesn’t receive the nourishment it needs to repair your muscles, recuperation is delayed or remains incomplete.

The Problem: Inflammation

Inflammation occurs after intense exercise, and helps cause soreness, central nervous system fatigue, and a delay in the regeneration of muscle.

If inflammation isn’t properly treated and your body is subjected to repeated intense exercise, then you risk developing chronic inflammation, which can put you out of the game for a long period of time.

The Problem: Weakened Immune System

For several hours after you exercise intensely, your immune system is more vulnerable to attack than ever. This means an increased risk of getting sick, which can throw your training schedule out of whack for weeks.

The Problem: Lack of Energy

Recuperation and healing take energy, and as your body diverts its resources to 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.

Your Solutions

Oxidative Stress Relief:

The best way to counter oxidative stress is to take a natural supplement that provides anti-oxidants that will work to neutralize the damaging free radicals produced by exercise. Careful though, not all anti-oxidants are created equal.

For more information on oxidative stress relief.

Boost Your Immune System:

While adequate sleep and good nutrition will help boost your immune system in general, what you need is something to take right after exercising that will give your immune system immediate protection. For athletes, immunoglobulins (also called antibodies) are an ideal choice because they have a triple function: immunoglobulins are bioactive proteins, meaning that they provide both a source of quality amino acids to help repair muscles; are clinically proven to help your body fight against invading bacteria and viruses; and also promote a healthy inflammatory response.

For more information on boosting your immune system.

Promote a Healthy Inflammatory Response:

To reduce recuperation time, you need to fight the inflammatory cytokines that assemble in muscle tissue after exercise. TGF-ß is a potent anti-inflammatory peptide, and surprisingly perhaps, so is turmeric, a spice found in much Indian cooking.

For more information on how to promote a healthy inflammatory response.

Feed and Repair Your Muscles:

Your muscles need nourishment to rebuild and repair. This means finding a high-quality source of essential amino acids such as immunoglobulins which are also proven to increase the transport of amino acids into muscle cells throughout the body, reducing recuperation time. Egg albumin protein is also ideal, as it is a slow-release glycoprotein, providing your muscles with a steady source of highly recognizable essential amino acids. It also serves an important osmotic function, preventing the water in blood from moving into the interstitial fluid. Papain (from the papaya fruit) can also help with recuperation as it is a digestive enzyme that breaks protein down into amino acids that are easily assimilated into muscle tissue.

For more information on muscle repair.

Boost Your Energy Levels:

To get more energy for recuperation and performance, you need to recharge and cleanse your cells of metabolic wastes, allowing them to produce energy more efficiently. Drinking adequate water throughout your day helps to flush out the wastes, but can be insufficient on its own. Calcium D-glucarate helps the liver to detoxify the blood of impurities, including waste products produced during exercise. Cell function can also be enhanced by other means (this should link to article on cellular energy).

For more information on boosting your energy levels.

Other Tips to Speed Post-Workout Recuperation:

Get your sleep: your body repairs itself when you sleep, so get a good night ’s rest.
Drink enough water: water helps your cells cleanse themselves.
Always cool down for at least 10 minutes immediately after exercise, and stretch.
Replace depleted fluid, protein and glycogen stores within ½ an hour of training.

References

1. Dwivedi C, Heck WJ, Downie AA, et al. Effect of calcium glucarate on beta-glucuronidase activity and glucarate content of certain vegetables and fruits. Biochem Med Metab Biol 1990;43:83–92.

2. Tarnopolsky, M.A., Bosman, M., MacDonald, J.R., Vandeputte, D., Martin, J., & Roy, B.D. (1997). Post exercise protein-carbohydrate and carbohydrate supplements increase muscle glycogen in men and women. Journal of Applied Physiology, 83, 1877-1883

3. van Loon, L.J., Saris, W.H., Kruijshoop, M., & Wagenmakers, A.J. (2000).
Maximizing postexercise muscle glycogen synthesis: carbohydrate supplementation and the application of amino acid or protein hydrolysate mixtures. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 72, 106-111.

4. Nieman DC. (2000) Is infection risk linked to exercise workload? Med Sci Sports Exerc 32: S406 –S411, 2000.

Copyright 2010 Elite Sports and Fitness

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.
Copyright 2010 Elite Sports and Fitness

While many athletes take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) before or after training, this has been shown to actually increase inflammation when compared with those athletes who don’t take them. Use of NSAIDS by athletes has also been associated with mild kidney impairment and low-level endotoxemia (where bacteria from the colon leak into the bloodstream).

If taking NSAIDS is potentially harmful, what, then, is the best way to promote a healthy inflammatory response? The answer to a healthy inflammatory response is by working with your body’s natural systems. TGF-ß (transforming growth factor beta) is a naturally occurring anti-inflammatory peptide that stimulates the healing process and helps promote a healthy inflammatory response to muscle inflammation. It can be found in natural supplements such as Protein Extreme Energy, along with other effective and natural anti-inflammatory agents such as papain and turmeric. Still not convinced that the natural route to recovery from inflammation is effective?
Read the stories of these athletes who have managed to cut down their recuperation time using completely natural inflammatory response methods.

References:

1. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2008 Nov-Dec;32(6):656-9.
Inflammation: roles in aging and sarcopenia.
Jensen GL. PMID: 18974248

2. February 15, 1999 The Journal of Physiology, 515, 287-291.
Pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine balance in strenuous exercise in humans Kenneth Ostrowski*†, Thomas Rohde*, Sven Asp*, Peter Schjerling* and Bente Klarlund Pedersen*† doi:10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.287ad.x

3. Brain Behav Immun. 2006 Nov;20(6):578-84. Epub 2006 Mar 22.
Ibuprofen use, endotoxemia, inflammation, and plasma cytokines during ultramarathon competition.
Nieman DC, Henson DA, Dumke CL, Oley K, McAnulty SR, Davis JM, Murphy EA, Utter AC, Lind RH, McAnulty LS, Morrow JD. PMID: 16554145

Copyright 2010 Elite Sports and Fitness

How can you, as a serious athlete, address muscle fatigue, sore muscles and muscles in need of repair?

Bioactive proteins, known as immunoglobulins, are scientifically known to help support muscle repair. These bioactive proteins, as found in Protein Extreme Energy, are fifteen times stronger than whey protein isolate, containing 45% Immunoglobulin G as opposed to whey protein isolate’s 3% level, 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 are far more digestible than those found in whey protein isolate.

But what does all of this mean to muscle repair? All of 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. The more protein retained by and used by your body, the greater the level of muscle repair in your body.

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.

This bioactive proteins have been demonstrated to augment the transport of amino acids into muscle cells throughout the body, regenerating, strengthening, repairing and growing these tissues after working out. 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 this bioactive protein 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.

Transforming Growth factor-beta found in Protein Extreme Energy is anti-inflammatory, helps in post-exercise recovery, and is beneficial in repairing extreme muscle rips.

As a serious athlete you desire the ability to support faster muscle repair to enable faster recovery times.

Copyright 2010 Elite Sports and Fitness

Antioxidants

Free radicals are small oxygenated molecules that possess an unpaired electron. In molecules, electrons generally go around in pairs and if an electron had no buddy then it desperately tries to find one. So desperately, in fact, that as soon as they are born they will steal one from the nearest donor they can find. In some cases that will be a skin cell, in others a low density lipid (LDL) molecule, and in yet others, DNA and proteins such as muscle tissue will be destroyed.

In each case, the molecules robbed of an electron are altered in some way or, as inferred above, even destroyed.  Thus, the membranes of skin cells are ruptured, causing the appearance of premature aging.  LDL molecules are rendered water-insoluble, so that they and the cholesterol they carry are deposited on the walls of your arteries causing atherosclerosis, and muscle cells are destroyed causing weakness and lack of athletic performance.

Free radicals are formed by exposure to pollution such as pesticides, tobacco smoke, industrial and traffic fumes and strong sunlight.  They are also formed during your body’s metabolism, and the more you exercise the more free radicals are generated.

Antioxidants destroy free radicals as soon as they are formed, and so prevent this undesirable oxidative stress taking place. Common antioxidants include Vitamins A, C and E, flavanoids, beta-carotene and many other forms of plant chemicals (phytochemicals). They can be used by athletes to prevent oxidative damage cause by the free radicals that are generated in the body during strenuous exercise.

Anti-Inflammatories

The immune system works in many ways to protect your body from invasion by pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and other foreign intruders. Part of your immune system is known as the inflammatory response, which occurs particularly when parts of your body suffer damage or become infected.

For example, arthritis is an inflammatory condition that occurs as a result of damage to bone tissue or cartilage, and subsequent infection of the synovial fluid. Another is the fever associated with serious bacterial and viral infections. Your body reacts to these situations by producing prostaglandins, opening up the blood vessels to allow the white blood cells to get to the source of the infection, thus causing swelling. They also increase the body temperature to render it less comfortable for bacteria and viruses, and produce chemicals such as cytokines that can call on the larger macrophages of the blood to the infected site.

The increase in the blood vessel size causes painful swelling while the temperature increase can lead to fever.  Some anti-inflammatories work by inhibiting the enzymes, mainly Cox-1 and Cox-2, that are responsible for prostaglandin production.  Inflammation reduces and the pain and swelling are relieved. These are the NSAIDs (non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) such as aspirin and ibuprofen. Others operate in a different way, but with the same end result.

Importance to Athletes

No Pain, No Gain – so they say. The trouble is that with pain you cannot gain. Pain caused through injuries is mainly caused by inflammation. Muscle degradation is caused by free radical oxidation, the free radicals being generated by extreme muscular exercise and metabolic activity.

Athletes and runners, who are particularly prone to free radical-induced oxidative stress and to inflammation of joints and muscles, require treatment that does not involve NSAIDs. It has been reported that some athletes using Advil, or ibuprofen, suffered more inflammation that those that did not1.  NSAIDs block the production of inflammatory prostaglandins, but also block a prostaglandin that protects the lining of the stomach and this can lead to internal bleeding.

They also reduce blood clotting, which results in increased general bleeding and bruising from injuries. For athletes, therefore, natural anti-inflammatories such as turmeric, papain(2), cocoa flavanols(3) (possibly) and trimethyl glycine(4) are preferred.  They work in various ways, including reducing prostaglandin production, although are much kinder to your body.

Reducing Inflammation

It is essential that free radical oxidative stress and inflammation be reduced to a minimum, not only to enable rapid recovery after exercise, and also after injury, but also to allow metabolic rates to increase without a corresponding increase in free radical damage to the cardiovascular system and muscle tissue.

The use of NSAIDs is commonplace, but, as explained, can cause several side effects if taken regularly. The safest method is by means of natural anti-inflammatories and antioxidants, some of which have been mentioned above though this is by no means an exhaustive list.

References

1.  Reported in http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/phys-ed-does-ibuprofen-help-or-hurt-during-exercise/

2.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11589110

3.  J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2006;47 Suppl 2:S163-71; discussion S172-6.

4.  http://www.arthritis-treatment-and-relief.com/supplements-that-help-ease-muscle-and-joint-pain.html

5.  http://arthritis.emedtv.com/diclofenac/diclofenac-risks.html

Copyright 2010 LifeHealthSecrets

During an intensive bout of exercise, your body can use up to 200 or even 250 grams of carbohydrates depleting your full store of glycogen, or stored glucose. Once your exercise is finished, those carbohydrates need to be replenished quickly to keep you at your peak athletic performance. Refueling your body and rebuilding stores of glycogen, or stored glucose, is the last critical step of training.

Replenishing Carbohydrates Post Workout

All athletes following an intense workout should refuel with high carbohydrate snacks and a large meal. This becomes especially important for athletes who will be required to compete again within the week or those who are training heavily daily. In these cases, it’s critical to build up stores of glycogen again before the next bout of activity.

To properly replenish carbohydrates following a workout, you should consume a large high-carbohydrate meal within the first two hours following exercise. Ideally, that meal should occur within the first hour, as this is the “magic window” for muscles to be most receptive to replacing glycogen stores.

Following a heavy workout, your muscles are very receptive to nutrients and glucose and glycogen. This is due to the increased blood flow in the body for the first 15 to 30 minutes following an activity. During these first few minutes, a quick snack of high GI foods such as bananas or dried fruit can help to restore some glycogen with the bulk of the restoration to come later in a full meal.

This first small window of time is also excellent for a high protein food to help build muscles. Eating a high GI food causes the body to release large amounts of insulin to counteract the glucose ingested. The high amounts of insulin stimulate a greater uptake of protein into the muscle cells along with the glucose. The insulin essentially ferries both glucose and protein along to the cells during their most receptive time.

Eating the Right Foods Post Workout

Glucose is blood sugar which translates to energy for the body’s cells. When the glucose is stored in the cells, it becomes glycogen. Eating the right foods before a workout can boost glycogen stores,  but these stores are depleted after 90 minutes of exercise. Longer periods of exercise can require refueling of the body’s glucose stores during exercise, but after training is finished, your cells are essentially empty vessels waiting to be refilled properly. Eating the wrong foods at these times can cause problems with energy stores and prevent proper recovery.

Carbohydrates Within 30 Minutes

The first 30 minutes of training gives you the best opportunity to replenish your stores and deliver protein to the muscle cells as well. During this first half-hour, try to eat at least ½ gram of carbohydrates per pound of body weight. If you weigh 160 pounds, you’ll want to consume 80 grams of carbohydrates in these 30 minutes. While protein is important in this period as well, the proper ratio of carbohydrate to protein is 4:1. For the 160-pound athlete, in 30 minutes you should shoot for 80 grams of carbohydrates and 20 grams of protein.

Carbohydrates Within 2 Hours

Within the first 2 hours following an intense workout, you should eat a large high-carbohydrate meal to restore the rest of the carbohydrates used in exercise. These foods should be mid to high GI foods including items such as fruit, bread, pasta, potatoes, rice and perhaps even some simple sugars such as sports drinks.

Carbohydrates Within 24 Hours

It takes up to 20 hours in the best of circumstances to fully recover from a large scale athletic event. Carbohydrate stores, or glycogen, re-establish during these 20 hours provided you’ve consumed enough carbohydrates to replenish your stores.  It’s important to stay focused on eating the right kinds of carbohydrates during the day following training to fully restore all stores of carbohydrates, especially if you’re performing for hours each day.

Problems with Post Workout Carbohydrates

A common trick among many athletes focuses on a quick pick-up following activity by using recovery drinks and gels that have high glycemic index (GI) carbs. These simple sugars are effective to a point, but can cause problems in the long run. High GI foods immediately following a work-out stimulates insulin activity to deliver glucose and protein to the cells, but those large floods of insulin can also cause bouts of low blood sugar as the body compensates for such a quick release. Opting for medium release carbohydrates and avoiding pure simple sugars such as those in high GI foods can provide a more balanced replacement.

It’s also important to note that the recovery periods following workouts are ideal times for you to consume high amounts of carbohydrates and even protein, but not for fats. Be sure that you’re selected low-fat, high carbohydrate options to allow your body to restore itself most effectively.

Copyright 2010 Life Health Secrets

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.

Copyright 2009 LifeHealthSecrets

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.

Copyright 2009 LifeHealthSecrets

Deal-with-Chronic-Stress

Your adrenal glands sit on top of your kidneys and regulate stress and energy output. Intense exercise can overwhelm the adrenals and eventually burn them out, leading to chronic fatigue, bags under the eyes and reduced performance.

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. Adrenal Re-Boot not only ups the power of your generator – it upgrades your wiring, so that energy can move freely throughout your body.

Adrenal Re-Boot provides the nourishment your adrenals need to function properly while also strengthening the connecting pathways so that you can access the energy you need, when you need it, providing an extra boost to the legs. By promoting healthy cortisol and DHEA levels, Adrenal Re-Boot also helps put your body in an anabolic state, necessary for muscle growth and repair.

Copywrite 2009 LifeHealthSecrets

It’s also 14 minutes faster than I could run 25 years ago.  I still find that part totally amazing.

Even more amazing to me is my recovery thanks to using PXE and Adrenal Reboot. I started to take the adrenal reboot the week prior to my race (I’ve been taking Protein Extreme Energy for about three months now).

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. PXE and Adrenal Reboot are amazing!!! I’m 59 and was willing to give myself a full 2 weeks to recover form the marathon. Though I’m still going to take it easy, I feel like I’d be ready to go and tackle another race by this weekend.