You know that you need vitamins and minerals to keep your body healthy, but what kinds of minerals are the best? What about colloidal minerals? Should you be getting more of those in your diet?

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Did you know that Nature’s Way—which makes the excellent Alive! whole food energizer drinks used by thousands of people who want to maintain a healthy weight while getting all the essential nutrients—also makes an excellent line of supplements as well? If you haven’t tried this line of supplements yet, you’re in for a real treat.

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Long before any nutritionist ever wrote or spoke about probiotics, one world ruler reaped their benefits: Alexander the Great.

After departing from his native country, Macedonia, Alexander took his soldiers south and then east. They eventually came into contact with nomadic tribes in the mountains of what is now Iran. Those nomads had interacted with inhabitants of the Caucusus Mountains, people who made kefir. Read the rest of this entry »

Nature’s Way Alive! Drinks

Alive! Whole Food Energizer drinks by Nature’s Way have become staples for thousands of people who want to maintain a healthy weight while ensuring that their diets include all the essential nutrients. Among the company’s products are two shakes and one effervescent drink mix that meet these requirements.

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Does this scenario sound familiar? You’ve been so good all week about staying on your diet. Only high-protein, low-carbohydrate foods and beverages have passed your pure and virtuous lips. You’re starting to feel so good about yourself that you doubt you’ll ever indulge in greasy, fatty, high-carb foods again!
And then it happens. You’re driving by your favorite burger joint, and the sweet smell of grease simply overpowers you. You decide that “just this once” won’t hurt, so you park, go in, and pork out on a double cheeseburger, fries, and a large chocolate malt. Then you spend the rest of the day feeling physically bloated and emotionally disgusted with yourself.
Get off your back—lapses like this one happen to the best of us. Fortunately, now there’s a product that can help you get through them without gaining back the weight you worked so hard to lose. BSN Cheaters Relief acts to stop your body from digesting the carbohydrates and fats from foods like hamburgers, fries, pizza, and hot-fudge sundaes.

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There’s a good reason more stallions than fillies win horse races: Stallions have bigger muscles and more of the muscle-powering hormone testosterone than fillies do. Knowing that, most racehorse trainers would feed prohormone products to the stallions they train for the track if only they could!
Prohormones are hormone precursors that liver enzymes convert to anabolic hormones in the body. Though earlier versions of prohormone products were banned from the marketplace, luckily for human athletes who want to increase their muscle size, strength, and endurance, a new version called 1-Androsterone is available.
Manufactured by Advanced Muscle Science, a company with more than 20 years of experience in producing cutting-edge bodybuilding supplements and ergogenic aids for the sports-nutrition industry, 1-Androsterone offers many of the same beneficial effects that 1-androstendiol and 1-test did—and because the formulation is 100 percent legal, you can take it knowing your body is protected from dangerous substances. Unlike virtually every “methyl” prohormone on the market, 1-Androsterone is completely nontoxic, an orally active compound that occurs naturally in the human body. Moreover, in addition to being exceedingly powerful, it’s also completely non-aromatizable to estrogen.

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Are you getting the best possible results from your daily workout? Do you find that you struggle to develop your body but fail to maintain optimum muscle strength? Do you feel tired and frustrated after a workout, as if your effort isn’t paying off as well as it could?
Supplements can provide you with an answer, in terms of rounding out your exercise routine, and can spell the difference between being in shape and really defining your body to its maximum level of strength and fitness. Nutrex Research’s NIOX makes use of nitric oxide (NO), a molecule that occurs naturally in your body and is produced by enzymes that break down the amino acid arginine. NO is important to you as a bodybuilder because it helps to improve the blood flow to your muscle cells, allowing these cells to benefit from the nutrients found naturally in your bloodstream. This improvement in blood flow positively affects your muscles, helping them to be healthier and stronger.
Nutrex’s new product NIOX is unusual because it offers NO in a liquid form. This helps you get results faster, since your body naturally digests anything in a liquid form quickly, absorbing it like one big sponge. Giving you optimum results, fast. And who doesn’t want that?

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Affecting more than 20 million Americans, diabetes is characterized by the inability to regulate the body’s blood sugar. Of the different types of diabetes, the most common is type 1 diabetes mellitus. Formerly referred to as noninsulin-dependent diabetes, type 2 diabetes accounts for 90 percent of all cases. Although type 2 diabetes is considered an inherited condition, its development is principally a consequence of lifestyle. That is, in most cases, it can be prevented and treated with diet, exercise, and weight control. People who are unable to control their blood sugar with lifestyle changes are treated with oral blood-sugar-lowering medications. In turn, those who are unable to adequately control their blood sugar with oral medications are treated with insulin.

Dire Consequences
Serious health complications are associated with uncontrolled blood sugar: namely, kidney failure, heart disease, and blindness. Faced with these grave risks, the medical community has focused its efforts on measures to prevent the onset of diabetes in at-risk populations and to prevent the complications associated with diagnosed individuals.
Though a variety of medications are available to treat diabetes, scientists are looking to alternative ways to treat this widespread disease. A nutritional supplement marketed toward the diabetic patient, NutraLab Cinnergen is used to enhance the effects of the body’s natural insulin and to decrease the effect of elevated blood sugar. Cinnergen contains a variety of natural substances (16 active ingredients in all); however, the most widely studied of these are cinnamon bark, blueberry leaf extract, and cranberry extract.

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Did you know that more than 60 percent of our free amino acids are glutamine? Or that for years, glutamine was considered to be just another nonessential amino acid?
Of course, the term “nonessential amino acid” only means that our bodies don’t manufacture glutamine for us. But recent studies reveal that glutamine is much more important for maintaining health than previously believed. Glutamine, which becomes conditionally essential during times of stress or injury, elevates growth hormone levels and restricts the catabolic actions of cortisol as well. In fact, it is now well documented that glutamine is also essential for cell proliferation and that it acts as a respiratory fuel and boosts immune function.

Nonessential but Important
When our bodies’ glutamine reserves are low, we become much more prone to infections and other immune-system-related problems. Many glutamine researchers focus on the fact that depleted glutamine stores make it much more difficult for our bodies to fend off illness and on the fact that illnesses can further deplete glutamine reserves. But glutamine depletion does not only occur through illness; it also happens through stress caused by exercise.

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Both men and women need a certain level of naturally occurring steroids in the body to build muscles and increase bulk. This is even more important for people over the age of 25, since natural levels of testosterone in males and progesterone in females begin to decline after this age. Bodybuilders and other athletes have long used prohormones to encourage muscle growth and repair, but how effective are they? While some formulas claim to encourage healthy muscle growth and a steady supply of the essential hormone, many fail to produce results.
Used as a prohormone to testosterone, 4-androstenediol (4-AD) is designed to increase the natural production of testosterone throughout tissues in the body, making it easier to build muscle naturally. The 4-AD combination is used in many prohormone blends, but Advanced Muscle Science 4-AD is made with a proprietary blend and can be used both as a pre-workout stimulant and for its testosterone-enhancing effects.

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