Vitamins
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Vitamin D – Essential For Muscular Growth and Maintenance
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What Is Vitamin D? Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin found naturally in few foods and synthesized in the body upon exposure to sunlight. If that doesn’t rock your world, maybe this will: vitamin D acts like a hormone in the body and there are Vitamin D receptors throughout the body. If you are [...]
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Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Decreased Strength and Muscle Fat
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There’s an epidemic in progress, and it has nothing to do with the flu. A ground-breaking study published in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjects had too little Vitamin D in their blood. Nearly a quarter of the group had serious deficiencies (less [...]
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Top 10 Vitamins for Bodybuilders
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The Metabolic Spark Plugs One of the most confusing issues for any athlete is supplementation. What to take, how much, when to take it, blah, blah, blah. Figuring out a supplementation regimen can be so frustrating at times that it becomes easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees, to forget the purpose [...]
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Top 10 Reasons Fish Oils are Essential
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1. Fish oils, rich in the Omega-3 fatty acids may help prevent depression, stabilize the moods of maniac-depressives, and alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia. University of California’s Johnsson Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA health.com 2. Fish oil is one of the few substances known to lower concentrations of triglycerides (fatty substances) that pose a cardiovascular risk, [...]
