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Cleanse Protocol Part 3: Blood Flow 0
No matter what we do with the other areas of health, if the ability of the body to deliver blood is compromised, it:Leads to a reduction in the effects of all the other actions we are taking towards health.Contributes to degenerative disease such as heart failure, stroke, cardiovascular disease and many more including high blood pressure.Negatively impacts energy levels, slows thinking.- Alex Avocado
ARTICLE: The Missing Fuel For Our Body 0
Hydrogen: The Missing Fuel
Author Avocado Ninja / Category Article / Published: 10th July 2018
The antioxidant power of hydrogen was investigated by Hungarian Albert Szent-Györgyi, who later won the Nobel Prize for discovering the antioxidant activity of vitamin C.
In fact, in his December 11th, 1937, Nobel lecture, Albert Szent-Györgyi declared:
...our body really only knows one fuel: Hydrogen.
...quite an amazing revelation considering free hydrogen is found in the plasma of our very own sun, helping it glow.
So what makes it so powerful?
- It’s been proven to fight the strongest oxidizing chemical of all: the Hydroxyl radical, which is a major villain in DNA damage.
- But more than just sheer power, hydrogen’s health benefits are also quite delicate: It doesn’t react with other oxidizing agents, which are actually beneficial to your body such as Nitric Oxide vital for heart health.
- It also doesn’t disturb necessary metabolic reactions or disrupt cell signaling.
- Because it’s so small, hydrogen can penetrate the important parts of your body that need revitalizing the most, like your mitochondria (the powerhouse of your cells) and nucleus. Without a powerful antioxidant like hydrogen, dangerous free radicals can flourish here.
- Hydrogen is able to pass through the blood-brain barrier, and can improve your brain health with its antioxidant power.
Molecular Hydrogen is present in all Natural Forms of Water
If we were drinking pure healthy water from a spring or mountain stream, molecular hydrogen is present in the water. In fact, recently all the celebrated "healing waters" around the world were analysed, and they all contained high levels of molecular hydrogen. It is what we were meant to drink. But tap and bottled water go through so many processes, this delicate molecule is destroyed.
The good news is, you can turn this around by drinking water that’s truly “alive” and promotes your health and longevity.
IT’S NO WONDER YOU’RE EXHAUSTED!
YOU’VE BEEN MISSING OUT ON THE ENERGY YOUR BODY IS DESIGNED TO HAVE EVERY DAY!
Think about it: Have you ever drunk water that has gone through this unique process before? There’s virtually zero chance. And yet... nothing could be more natural than this alive water.
Think about this... The water in these springs seeps through layers of alkaline magnesium rich rock towards the surface, which create free hydrogen. Human beings were meant to drink this kind of water.
Hard science is beginning to prove this is true.
There are now over 1000 peer-reviewed articles demonstrate hydrogen to have therapeutic potential in essentially every organ of the human body and in 150 different human disease models.
So Instead Of Oxidizing And Aging Your Body, This specific form of energized water literally becomes apowerful antioxidant.
How Do I Get Hydrogen?
There are three ways to get hydrogen into your life. You can either create hydrogen rich water using the Ultrastream straight from your tap, infuse your water with I Love H2 tablets, or generate hydrogen inside the body using AquaRx.
More Information
Molecular Hydrogen Institute: Over 1000 studies proving the medical benefits of Molecular Hydrogen.
Molecular Hydrogen Studies: More studies on the effectiveness of hydrogen.
Author Avocado Ninja / Category Sports / Published: 5th July 2018
- Annalicia Brice
Super Nutrients - 8 Steps To Total Health Transformation 0
We have brought together the exact steps that in combination, give your body everything it needs to heal, rebuild, function at a completely optimum level.nutrients, that in combination, give your body everything it needs to heal, rebuild, function at a completely optimum level.- Avocado Ninja
Boost Sports Performance 0
The Two Secrets To Performance Enhancement (legal) that's taking the World by storm!
Author Avocado Ninja / Category Sports / Published: 5th July 2018
If you are someone that likes to train, run, cycle, swim or just want more fitness and energy, there are two things that can make an incredible difference, and it's all scientifically proven!
Our approach to health is called the Ninja Path, this covers everything you need to massively improve your body and fitness.
In this article, we single out the two most effective supplements that are proven to have a huge effect on performance and recovery. Even if you're not currently training, this is still relevant, as these supplements also improve your body functioning, your mental health and energy.
The combination of the two substances we will cover, have a dramatic impact on performance, co-ordination and recovery. Read on to find out more.
Performance Enhacing Benefits of Alkaline Salts
The first of our performance enhancing super substances are called Alkaline Salts. They are a combination of healthy salts that your body needs to function properly, and are missing in most diets. They have 13 EU Approved Health Benefits and hundreds of scientific articles demonstrating how they work together to support every function in your body.
When it comes to sports and performance, they really stand out though. With incredible enhancements to strength, stamina, performance and power. Read below to find out more.
Delays Fatigue
We’ve all heard about lactic acid, but as new science shows, it’s not the cause of muscle fatigue as originally thought.
The actual cause of muscle fatigue is exercise-induced decrease in pH, which is also known as metabolic acidosis.
(Lactic acid build up is more about recovery times and we will show you how to cut this below!)
According to Food and Nutrition Sciences, a build-up of acid inside the muscle cell is a factor responsible for muscular fatigue. Thus, the total muscular capacity is limited by the progressive increase in acidity within the muscles caused by an accumulation of lactate and acid.
This inhibits energy transfer and the ability of muscles to contract. The body’s defense against this is bicarbonate buffers, which help neutralize the acid produced by intense exercise.
Alkaline salts reduce the acidity of the blood. This draws more of the acid within the muscle cells out into the bloodstream, and thus reduces the level of acidity within the muscle cells.
By taking alkaline salts, you are providing your body with an abundance of bicarbonate buffers! This in turn delays the onset of fatigue.
Improves Co-Ordination
A study conducted by the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition tested alkaline salt supplementation on tennis athletes.
Prolonged tennis matches result in fatigue, which invariably impairs skilled performance. Looking at all ground strokes, the consistency scores showed a trend of decreased co-ordination in the placebo trial, while it increased in the alkaline salt trial. This study shows that alkaline salts supplementation prevents the decline in co-ordination.
Improves Power
A study conducted by the British Journal of Sports Medicine sought to assess the effect of sodium bicarbonate ingestion upon repeated bouts of intense, short-duration exercise. Subjects completed trials of cycle sprints. One group took alkaline salts and the other a placebo.
The ones who took alkaline salts produced higher over all power outputs and higher peak outputs in all ten of the ten-second sprints. The results also revealed that the difference in the average power outputs attained during the bicarbonate and placebo trials increased as the number of sprint repetitions increased.
Improves Performance Times
A study published in the International Journal of Sports Medicine has shown that by increasing the pH of the blood (with alkaline salts) elite swimmers were able to significantly improve their performance times. Dr Folland, who led the study found that over 200m freestyle, the athletes who alkalised their blood with the salts took 1.5 seconds off their time.
In this study, athletes who added alkaline salts to their usual hydration routines during the competition took 26 minutes less to complete a medium-distance triathlon course than those who only used sports drinks.
This is just a sample of the research out there. Alkaline Salts have proven to reduce the onset of fatigue, increase power, co-ordination, reduce acid build up and improve overall performance.
How To Get The Benefits
You can get alkaline salts in a powdered form you add to your drinking water. Find out more here.
Drink this water before and during your training to get all of these benefits!
Performance Enhancing Impact of Molecular Hydrogen
While alkaline salts work brilliantly before and during exercise, hydrogen works during and after. It is the perfect complement.
Overall, molecular hydrogen has far-reaching benefits not restricted to athletic performance. There are now over 1000 scientific articles suggest that H2 has therapeutic potential in over 170 different human disease models, and essentially every organ of the human body. You can read about these articles here and here. Here we will focus on the specific benefits to athletic performance.
Instant Impact on Blood
We recorded this video at Ninja HQ, 5 minutes after taking AquaRx capsules that release Molecular Hydrogen inside the body. It is actual footage of live blood, showing how the blood moves much more quickly and freely. This means that oxygen and nutrients are transported around the body extremely quickly, significantly improving performance and recovery.
Performance
Molecular Hydrogen "significantly improved VO2max" in this study. VO2Max is the maximum or optimum rate at which the heart, lungs, and muscles can effectively use oxygen during exercise. This means hydrogen improves your aerobic capacity or ability to exercise.
Molecular Hydrogen "significantly increased arterial blood pH" making it more able to cope with acid produced during exercise and offset fatigue. "Hydrogen Rich Water administration is safe and may have an alkalizing effect."
Molecular Hydrogen acts as an antioxidant to reduce muscle fatigue: "Adequate hydration with hydrogen-rich water pre-exercise improved exercise-induced decline of muscle function."
The impact of AquaRx Molecular Hydrogen on the blood, 5 minutes after taking. Measured at Ninja HQ!
Recovery
Lactic Acid
Lactic acid forms naturally in the muscles from this vigorous exercise but the body can't always clear lactic acid or lactate quickly enough, which causes the acid levels in your body to build up.
Molecular Hydrogen has been shown to "significantly reduce lactate response during the recovery period". Another study found that lactic acid was significantly lower when drinking hydrogen rich water. In this study "oral intake of HW prevented an elevation of blood lactate during heavy exercise".
This study found that "hydrogen rich water significantly helped post-exercise blood pH and reduced lactic acid as compared to a placebo... being an appropriate and safe hydration strategy that helps athletes become less susceptible to exercise induced acidosis."
By neutralising lactic acid quickly, it not only gets our body back into balance faster and reduces pain, but also cuts recovery time, meaning we can train harder and improve more rapidly.
Inflammation
After studying elite athletes, this study found that that hydrogen prevented oxidative injury during exericse. By acting as a powerful anti-oxidant it neutralises inflammation during exercise. This again increases performance and cuts down on recovery times. There are countless studies showing how molecular hydrogen is one of the most powerful selective anti-oxidants.
Energy
Mitochondria take the electrons, carried by hydrogen, to produce ATP, the energy currency of our cells. Our body needs ATP for growth, repair, and regeneration.
Albert Szent-Györgyi, a Nobel Prize winning physiologist, explained that hydrogen, rather than oxygen, is the fuel of life. It is common knowledge that oxygen is necessary for humans to live. However, hydrogen is the fuel that powers our cells by donating electrons to the electron transport chain and combining with oxygen to form water. Oxygen is simply the receiver of the used electrons during combustion in the mitochondria.
By supplying more hydrogen to the body, we are directly fuelling our cells with energy!
Molecular Hydrogen now has over 1000 studies showing it's profound impact on overall health. For athletic performance it is the "secret weapon" that will give you more energy, more power, offset fatigue and eliminate lactic acid and inflammation of muscles and tendons. It improves performance and cuts recovery times significantly.
How To Get The Benefits
There are three ways to get hydrogen into your life. You can either create hydrogen rich water using the Ultrastream straight from your tap, infuse your water with I Love H2 tablets, or generate hydrogen inside the body using AquaRx.
Drink hydrogen infused water, or take AquaRx during and after exercise to get these incredible benefits. Together with alkaline salts, it will totally transform your enery, co-ordination, performance, endurance and recovery times!
More Information
Molecular Hydrogen Institute: Over 1000 studies proving the medical benefits of Molecular Hydrogen.
Molecular Hydrogen Studies: More studies on the effectiveness of hydrogen.
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Ninja Team Take On The Spartan Race!
Author Avocado Ninja / Category News / Published: 5th July 2018
- Annalicia Brice
G.R.M.S.M. The Five Steps To Transform Your Life 0
When you understand the power behind these five letters, you’ll unlock “The Secret To Transforming Your Life”.- Annalicia Brice
Morning Habit 1: Hydrate With Alkaline Salts 0
The Secret To Supercharged Mornings!
Author Avocado Ninja / Category Habits/ Published: 5th July 2018
How you spend the first 20 minutes of your day sets the tone for the rest of the day. So we want to take concious control over this and ensure we get the best possible start!
When we wake up in the morning, we have already gone around 7 hours without water. If it's hot, you have taken exercise the previous day, or not drank at least 3 litres of water during the day, you will have gone to sleep with a fluid defecit to begin with.
What normally happens when we get up? We wash in water, shower in water, but rarely drink water, even though we are dehydrated. We just grab a cup of coffee.
Unfortunately, waking your body up with coffee will hit your body with caffeine incredibly fast. It will release a flood of stress hormones that your body reacts to with a fight or flight response. This is like being woken up being chased by a predator! Plus the caffeine will dehydrate you further!
Dehydration causes headaches, moodiness, irritability, anxiety and fatigue! Not the best way to start the day!
The antidote!
We are not just dehydrated when we wake up. We lose electrolytes and minerals during sleep too. Minerals are essential in supporting our bodily processes, from muscles, the brain and internal organs. Without the correct minerals our body's functions start to deteriorate.
The answer to all this, to get an instant energy boost, a mood lifter and get your day going right away is so simple....
WE NEED TO REHYDRATE! But to REALLY SUPERCHARGE this, we need to REMINERALISE. To get this morning boost - a calmness, more energy, focus and aliveness. Just do the following:
1. Get really clean filtered water (preferrably alkaline)... our amazing new Ninja Jug does a fantastic job of this.
If you don't have one, try to get some basic filtration in as a minimum.
2. Then add in a teaspoon of alkaline salts (not to be confused with table salts, which are toxic).
This will quickly replenish all of your salts and rehydrate your body.
You will notice an instant effect. Whereas caffeine jolts your body awake and makes you feel wired (followed by a crash), this new start to the day will give you an instant, clean form of energy that lasts for hours!
Start your day this way and you will notice the knock on effect in your mood, your performance and energy levels! You will be amazed at the huge impact doing this one simple thing each morning will have on your life!
You can find out more about the Ninja Jug here and alkaline salts here.
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Boost Sports Performance
Author Avocado Ninja / Category Sports / Published: 5th July 2018
- Annalicia Brice
