Archive for January, 2010
Dealing with Joint Pain? Get Some Relief With Chondro Jointaide
Ever wake up in the morning and experience joint pain getting out of bed. Whether it’s ankles, knees, hips, back or something else joint pain is one of the least fun things to experience and have to deal with. Nutrition Dynamics is a local Minnesota company with a staff of 11 Nutritional Consultants that have over 250 years of nutritional education and experience. They produces a great supplement for joint pain called Chondro Jointaide.
Chondro Jointaide contains 60 convenient packets, each containing two Chondro-Relief Intensive Care capsules, one Chondro-Relief capsule and one Pain Eze tablet. The nice advantage to the Chondro Jointaide is the convenience of daily packets that ensures you don’t forget to take a pill. Another advantage is the combination of the Chondro-Relief formula with the Chondro-Relief Intensive Care formula in the packets.
The Pain Eze tablet contains pain and inflammatory reducing properties that give proven results for pain relief. Together, this product maintains normal joint strength and flexibility, supports cartilage integrity, reduces joint pain, swelling and inflammation and increases joint collagen.
This product has been quite popular with patients so much so that it was back ordered for some time. It’s finally become available again and we’re pleased to carry this product for our customers. Through the end of February take 10% off using the coupon code “Jointaide”. Order by clicking the picture below. Have a great rest of your week.
Nutrition Dynamics Chondro Jointaide
Tired of Choking Down Big Vitamin Pills?
Here at Simply Nutrients we try to be good people and take the vitamins that are right for us but sometimes we question what manufacturer’s were thinking when they made pills so large that even a large farm animal would have trouble swallowing them. If you’ve taken pills like this you know what we mean. When you have that huge pill in your hand you are trying to comprehend how that huge thing can fit down your small throat.
Continue Reading January 20, 2010 at 11:31 pm Leave a comment
Fish Oil, Fish Oil and Fish Oil, Oh my….
The topic of todays blog is fish oil. It seems that there is a fish oil manufacturer on every corner these days and it can be so confusing as to which fish oil is right for you and your family. Although we don’t have time within the confines of this blog to get into all the scientific comparisons behind many brands I wanted to tell you about one brand that we believe is doing it right and our customers are affirming this with their orders.
Continue Reading January 18, 2010 at 10:26 pm Leave a comment
Optimizing Muscle Health in Aging Adults (Part 3)
For those of you that were wondering where the third part of this series was and if we were math challenged not to fear, Glutamine is here. Pardon the bad rhyme and without further ado here we are:
Glutamine - Progressive Labs
Glutamine is required for countless functions in the human body including maintaining muscle tissue and supporting immune system function. Glutamine is a conditionally essential amino acid, meaning that the body requircs dietary or supplemental glutamine during stressful circumstances such as prolonged exercise, surgery, or Infectious disease. Compelling evidence suggests that glutamine may be especially important for adults seeking to preserve lean tissue mass.
Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in the body, and is highly concentrated in the skeletal muscles that make movement possible. Maintaining healthy skeletal muscle is essential to overall good health and mobility. Important research shows that glutamine can help maintain healthy muscle mass in people who are susceptible to loss of lean body mass, such as those undergoing surgery. One study showed that supplementing individuals who had major surgery with glutamine prevented the decline in muscle glutamine levels and muscle protein synthesis that can occur following such a procedure. These findings strongly suggest that glutamine can prevent the loss of muscle tissue during recovery from surgery and have important implications for all those seeking to preserve lean muscle mass.
Glutamine may offer benefits for muscle health by increasing growth hormone levels. Since youthful levels of growth hormone are associated with tissue building and repair, nutritional scientists have long sought methods of naturally enhancing growth hormone levels. In one study, scientists administered 2.000 mg of glutamine dissolved in a beverage to nine healthy adult subjects, Eight out olfthe nine subjects responded lo the oral glutamine intake with a four-fold increase in growth hormone output. These results bode well for athletes and active aging populations seeking to optimize their growth hormone levels.
Glutamine may hold important benefits for individuals who participate-in exercise training programs. Evidence suggests that glutamine may help replenish muscle glycogen stores after intense exercise.” Glycogen serves as a readily available form of fuel to power muscle action and as most athletes know, optimizing glycogen levels is important when you want to perform well.
Scientists administered glutamine to six healthy volunteers who bad just completed 90 minutes of intense exercise. Such vigorous activity depletes muscle glycogen stores. Glutamine administration increased muscle glutamine stores and increased glycogen storage alter the intense bout of exercise. While scientists are continuing to explore glutamine’s mechanism of action in increasing glycogen stores, this might just be one more benefit of this amino acid for athletes and aging populations who wish to remain active and healthy.
In addition to its benefits for muscle wellness, glutamine is also crucial for immune health, and may be especially crucial in those who exercise vigorously. Intense exercise is known to reduce glutamine stores. making less glutamine available for supporting healthy immune system Function and leaving individuals susceptible to infections. Scientists have proposed that supplementing with glutamine may help prevent the depression of immune function that can occur in those who participate in vigorous exercise programs.
Glutamine thus holds important benefits for preserving muscle mass with aging, supporting healthy growth hormone levels, optimizing muscle glycogen levels, and preventing exercise-induced immune suppression. These effects have important applications for athletes and aging populations who realize muscle is essential for healthy living and long-term functionality with advancing age.
Conclusion
The combination of whey, creatine, and glutamine powerfully supports aging muscles. Functional strength, and the aging immune system, all of which are critical factors for an active, independent life. Utilizing whey protein as a meal replacement provides critical proteins without the carbohydrates and kits that may contribute to unwanted weight gain.
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Are You Getting Enough Sun?……. Probably Not So You Should Read This.
If you’re anything like me you don’t have time to get a lot of sun. It may be work, family or you may live in a place where sun is sparse during seasons of the year. Even if you live in a very sunny climate unless you get out and absorb enough sun to generate the vitamin D that you need your body is likely deficient in Vitamin D and that can have health repercussions.
The issue of Vitamin D deficiency as a major causal factor in immune system related illnesses ranging from seasonal cold and flu, to heart disease, to cancer, to atopic and autoimmune disorders has received a lot of attention in the last few years. Clinical journals as well as the mainstream media have been reporting evidence that modern industrialized humans are severely deficient in Vitamin D and that this deficiency is a major contributing factor to illness and lack of health and vitality.
Take a look at some great facts provided by the medical professionals at Innate Choice:
FACT: Vitamin D is essential for wellness and prevention for people of all ages. From birth onward humans require sufficient vitamin D for health and vitality and for protection against vitamin D deficiency related illnesses.
FACT: Unless you are getting your required amount of sunlight every day you will almost certainly be deficient in vitamin D.
FACT: Research is clear that the vast majority of people living in industrialized society are deficient in Vitamin D.
FACT: Your serum 25(OH)D level should be between 40 and 60 ng/ml. The only way to be sure of your vitamin D levels are to measure your serum level of 25(OH)D.
FACT: You cannot get adequate amounts of vitamin D from your diet. Humans are genetically designed to get vitamin D from sun exposure not our diets.
FACT: Vitamin D deficiency can have severe consequences and is linked to very serious illness in people of all ages. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to seasonal colds and flu, cancer, heart disease, asthma, allergies, autism, autoimmune diabetes, and a plethora of other serious illnesses.
FACT: The best source of naturally occurring vitamin A and D with all the required cofactors and in the proper matrix of fats is cod liver oil with the naturally occurring vitamin A and D in the proper 10:1 ratio.
FACT: Most available cod liver oils have had the naturally occurring vitamins removed and have added synthetic vitamin A and D which research shows have a greater risk of toxicity.
FACT: Innate Choice™ Natural A & D Sufficiency™ genuine Norwegian cod liver oil contains 100% naturally occurring vitamin A and D in the proper 10:1 ratio and is 100% free of synthetic vitamins.
FACT: Studies on naturally occurring cod liver oils like Innate Choice™ Natural Vit A and D Sufficiency™ have shown great benefit and no evidence of toxicity.
FACT: Innate Choice™ Natural A & D Sufficiency™ genuine Norwegian cod liver oil is also rich in Omega-3 essential fatty acids.
FACT: There is no better choice for vitamin A and D than Innate Choice™ Natural A & D Sufficiency™ genuine Norwegian cod liver oil.
FACT: If you choose to utilize an isolated vitamin D supplement clearly the BEST OPTION is to ensure you are ALSO getting naturally occurring vitamin A and D with the full spectrum of cofactors and proper fats as found in Innate Choice™ Natural A & D Sufficiency™ genuine Norwegian cod liver oil.
FACT: If you choose to utilize an isolated vitamin D supplement there is no better solution than adding Innate Choice™ D-Sufficiency™ vitamin D3 Drops to Innate Choice™ Natural A & D Sufficiency™ genuine Norwegian cod liver oil.
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Optimizing Muscle Health in Aging Adults (Part 2)
Creatine Complements Whey’s Effects
The scientific and medical communities have recently been devoting Significant attention to creatine, and they are discovering that it not only offers benefits for active and athletic populations—but it may be particularly helpful for preserving muscle mass and strength in aging populations.
Creatine monohydrate has longed been used by athletes for its ability to increase muscular force and power, reduce fatigue, and help increase muscle mass.” Creatine supplementation works by increasing intramuscular and intracerebral stores of creatine and phosphocreatinc. which helps prevent ATP depletion, stimulate protein synthesis, and reduce protein breakdown.
Research suggests that whey and creatine may offer synergistic benefits for enhancing the effects of resistance training. One study compared the ellects of whey alone with whey plus creatine or placebo (malto-dextrin) in combination with a resistance exercise training program. Men who supplemented with whey and creatine demonstrated greater gains in lean tissue mass and bench press strength, compared with men who supplemented with whey alone or with placebo.
As adults grow older they become increasingly susceptible lo muscular atrophy and loss of strength, a condition known as sarcopenia. This devastating decline in muscle mass and function can slowly rob aging individuals of the ability to perform tasks of daily living, while placing them at risk of falls and other potentially dangerous injuries. Creatine supplementation may hold important applications in preserving muscle mass and strength in aging adults.
The muscle atrophy that commonly occurs in older adults comes predominantly from a loss of fast-twitch muscle fibers that are recruited during high-intensity movements like weight-lilting and sprinting. These are the muscle fibers most dramatically affected bv creatine supplementation.
Numerous studies have demonstrated that creatine supplementation increases strength and lean body mass in older adults who are participating in resistance exercise training. One group concluded, “creatine supplementation may be a useful therapeutic strategy for older adults to attenuate loss in muscle strength and performance of functional living tasks.”‘ This may have important implications for helping aging adults maintain functionality in performing everyday tasks.
One recent study found creatine may improve the functional strength of older women. Thirty women between 58 and 71 years old women performed a variety of tests to assess their baseline strength and endurance. The participants then received either placebo or creatine monohydrate (300 mg/kilogram of body mass) and were retested seven days later. The group receiving the creatine monohydrate had significant improvements over the placebo group in measures of strength, lower body functional tests, and fat-free body mass, leading the researchers to conclude, “short-term creatine supplementation resulted in an increase in strength, power, and lower-body motor functional performance in older women without any adverse side effects.
A growing body of research has shown creatine (in the form of creatine monohydrate) may benefit individuals with conditions affecting the neuromuscular system, such as Parkinson’s disease. Huntington’s disease, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Other conditions that may benefit from creatine supplementation include chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. Additionally, creatine supplementation may enhance the release of growth hormone following exercise, helping individuals capture the benefits of youthful growth hormone levels.
Creatine monohydrate thus has a wide range of potential benefits to aging populations, athletes, and those with various medical conditions. Its benefits may be enhanced by combination with whey protein as well as another nutrient the amino acid glutamine.
Researchers discovered that while creatine monohydrate is nice and stable and pure in its powder form, as soon as you add it to a liquid. it is no longer stable and rapidly converts to the by-product toxin creatinine. What they discovered was. the speed of conversion was directly proportional to the pH of the liquid it was being added to. Merely having it added to a strong alkaline drink did not solve the problem due to the digestion issue of it having to pass through the highly acidic stomach. They discovered if they buffered it with an alkaline greater than pHI2 then it remained completely stable in any liquid for long periods of time (now opening the way to completely stable Kre-Alkalyn drinks. It also ensured the new buffered creatine would pass through the stomach and at full strength into the blood stream.
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Optimizing Muscle Health in Aging Adults Part 1
Happy New Year to each of you. We’re starting off the year focusing on muscle health in a three part series on “Optimizing Muscle Health with Whey, Creatine and Glutamine”. Thank you to Will Brink and the folks at Nutrition Dynamics for some good research in this area. Let’s dive in:
Many people associate protein supplementation with bodybuilders or professional athletes seeking rapid gains in muscle mass and strength. As we age however, remaining active and independent also requires strong, healthy muscles, especially since aging increases susceptibility to loss of muscle mass and muscle atrophy.
Fortunately, health-conscious adults are discovering the benefits of a combination of nutrients that can help them get the most from an active lifestyle as they get older. In order to help offset the age-related loss in muscle, whey protein offers a rich source of essential amino acids that are rapidly absorbed and utilized, helping to maintain healthy muscle. Utilizing whey protein as a meal replacement provides critical proteins without the carbohydrates and fats that may contribute to unwanted weight gain.
Two other nutrients complement the muscle-building effects of whey: creatine supports muscle strength and prevents muscle wasting with aging, while the amino acid glutamine helps preserve lean tissue mass and supports immune system health.
Together, these nutrients in combination powerfully support aging muscles, functional strength, and the aging immune system, all of which are critical factors for an active, independent life.
Whey Protein
Whey is a protein complex derived from milk with a diverse range of health benefits. Whey protein has long been a staple supplement for athletes, and is now gaining popularity among a wider population of health-conscious adults, and for good reason. It is a great protein with a wide variety of benefits, ranging from promoting muscle health to immune modulation to protection against cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Whey protein is a rich source of the essential amino acids in higher concentrations compared with vegetable sources such as soy. Compared with other protein sources, whey contains a high concentration of branched-chain amino acids, which are important for tissue growth and repair. Additionally, whey is rich in the sulfur-containing amino acids, which enhance the body’s antioxidant protection through intracellular conversion to glutathione. Other constituents of whey include beta-lacto-globulin, lactoferrin, and immunoglobulins, which hold important benefits for immune support.
Whey’s amino acids are rapidly absorbed and utilized. Quickly elevating plasma amino acids and thus contributing to the preservation of muscle mass. Studies show that whey protein helps augment the effects of resistance exercise training, particularly when it is consumed shortly before or after exercise training. In one study, 36 men followed a weight-training program for 12 weeks while supplementing with whey protein, a multi-ingredient whey protein supplement, or maltodextrin placebo. At the study’s end, men who supplemented with whev in combination with resistance training showed improvements in one or more measures of muscle strength as well as lean tissue mass, compared to placebo recipients.
Whey’s benefits for skeletal muscle go beyond those provided by its essential ammo acid content, promoting greater muscle accrual than that which occurs from ingesting the essential amino acids alone. As a rule. higher biological value proteins such as whey are superior for maintaining muscle mass compared with lower -Quality proteins, which may be of particular importance to older individuals. In fact, data suggest “fast” digesting proteins such as whey may be superior to other proteins for preserving lean body mass in older individuals. This suggests that whey holds practical applications in supporting muscle anabolism (tissue-building) in older individuals.
One of whey’s major effects is its ability to raise levels of glutathione, a powerful intracellular antioxidant. The importance of glutathione for good health cannot be overstated. Glutathione is arguably the most important water-soluble antioxidant found in the body, participating in crucial detoxification reactions in the liver. Glutathione is known to be essential to immunity, body antioxidative capacity, and general well-being, and decreased levels of glutathione arc associated with a long list of ailments such as neurodegenerative disease, cirrhosis, and the aging process itself. Boosting glutathione levels through whey supplementation may thus be beneficial for aging populations looking to avert disease and stay healthy and active.
A growing body of research suggests that whey protein may offer protection against some of the most prevalent diseases afflicting older adults. In animal and human studies, whey protein shows promise in the prevention and management of cancer. Whey may offer benefits for cardiovascular health by modulating blood pressure and promoting healthy blood lipid profiles. Supplementing with whey protein may be particularly important for those with immune health concerns as studies point to its ability to help light numerous bacterial infections as well as provide support for individuals fighting hepatitis C and HIV infections. Finally, human research has found that whey protein improves cognitive ability and helps improve coping ability in highly stressed individuals, possibly by providing tryptophan, the precursor to serotonin.
Whey’s benefits thus extend far beyond healthy muscles to overall effects in promoting a healthy body and mind. Pickup some today from our convenient online store:
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