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Foods That Athletes Use to Gain Strength and Endurance

Posted Sunday, February 08, 2009 (290 days 2 hours ago.) Viewed 425 times.

The pressure to win and be the best in amateur and professional sports drives many athletes, at times with the urging of their coaches, to turn to dangerous, illegal steroids and other physical enhancing drugs. At the other end, the associations who control these athletes look for more ways to detect the use of these drugs and punish the athlete for using them.

There is another way of getting similar results without endangering your health or breaking the law. In nature there are strength and endurance enhancing foods that can get the same results. Here is a partial list of natural enhancing foods; Bee Pollen, Codonopsis, Ginger, Hawthorne Berry , Schisandra Berry , Siberian Ginseng, Tribulus and Wild Yam are a few of many. These foods are totally legal because they are foods and there is nothing dangerous about them physically or mentally.

But, if they are foods can they enhance athletic performance on the field? Can they deliver more strength, endurance and overall performance for the athlete? One of these foods was tested by the British Sports Council who recorded increases in strength as high as 40 to 50 percent in those taking this food regularly. What is the food that could cause such positive changes in strength? The Finnish track team that swept the Olympics in 1972, revealed, "Most of their athletes had used this food that year as a supplement with no negative results reported."

Here is another astounding physical feat that we hear little about involving bee pollen and the running powers of the American Indians. American Indian runners of the South West wore pouches containing bee pollen and chia seed around their necks to eat on long running journeys to sustain a high energy level. Sometimes they ran from 200 to 240 miles without stop as they carried news between San Gabriel , Mexico , Tucson , and San Diego . In the late spring of 1680 the Pueblo and Zuni Indians under the leadership of a Pueblo Indian religious leader named Poway; defeated the Spanish. Indian runners were instrumental in the overthrow of this abusive Spanish Franciscan monk rule. Spanish control of the Indians was crippled forever. The church and the kiva have coexisted to this day. The revolt remains a victory though few Americans know that it even happened (see my blog "Native American Thompsonian Herbalism" about the debt Naturopaths and modern medicine owe the American Indian People).

The food that could cause such astounding results is bee pollen. Here is what the renowned German naturalist Francis Huber, who was a great proponent of this miraculous food from the hive, called bee pollen, "the greatest body builder on Earth." Read the results below to see for yourself why this food product has had such a positive effect on athletes and could benefit anyone who just wants to gain an edge and feel better.

Noel Johnson, a marathon runner in his nineties has written two autobiographies. One is called "A Dud at 70 - A Stud at 80" and the other "The Living Proof". He says, "I derive special nutrients from bee pollen. It gives me the energy I need to engage in marathons... and other physical activities!"

Historical Background of Bee Pollen

All through history bee pollen has been referred to as a complete food and tonic by all the great societies including the Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, European, Inca, and North American Indians. Hypocrites and Pythagoras both prescribed bee pollen for its powerful healing and rejuvenating properties. In these ancient cultures, bee pollen was surrounded by mystique; offering long life, improved sexual prowess and prolonged wellness. Scientists have studied pollen in modern times and have confirmed that it is a perfect food containing all 22 elements that our body needs and will confirm its many benefits when taken regularly.

The Human consumption of bee products is praised in the Bible. Where Honey is frequently mentioned; it was referred to as a wholesome food, a helpful medicine, an ingredient of delicious drinks. Psalms 81:16 "He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey."

What Makes Bee Pollen the Perfect Food?

Chemical analysis from research labs all over the world show that bee pollen is the most complete and perfect food on Earth. Bee pollen contains the following nutrients [the location and source of bee pollen can cause variability in the vitamin and mineral content of bee pollen]

All essential amino acids, minerals, including phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, calcium, copper, manganese, iron and zinc, some trace minerals, all B vitamins, including B-12 [one of the few vegetarian sources of B-12], Folic Acid, Panthothenic Acid, Rutin, Lecithin, RNA, DNA and enzymes. It also contains anti-oxidants, including flavonoids, beta-carotene, Vitamins C and E, and Lycopene.

Research has shown that bee pollen contains a substance which inhibits the development of numerous harmful bacteria, including E. coli. Clinical studies have shown that bee pollen has a regulatory effect on intestinal function, relieving even the most stubborn constipation.

Studies also show that bee pollen is high in enzymes and co-enzymes. Enzymes are necessary in the body for digestive and immune functions. The enzymes present in bee pollen are especially important for a balanced chemical metabolism. This balancing or regulating function may be the key factor in bee pollen's ability to assist in weight regulation.

Bee pollen is approximately 25% complete protein containing at least 18 amino acids, more than 12 vitamins, 28 minerals, 11 enzymes and co-enzymes, 14 beneficial fatty acids, and 11 carbohydrates. Bee pollen is low in calories at 90 calories per oz. (approx. 2 tsps.). It contains Lecithin which helps dissolve and flush fat out of the body, which in turn lowers low density lipoproteins (LDL) and raises high-density lipoproteins (HDL). Bee pollen stimulates metabolism and curbs the appetite due to its Phenylalanine content [one of the essential amino acids]. It is also a powerful antioxidant (one of the highest) and has a high polyphenol content -- a super bioflavonoid.

Once science understood the above ingredients in bee pollen they tried to copy it ingredient by ingredient and synthesize bee pollen. Why would science want to do this? That is easy, because bee pollen is considered to be the most perfect food on earth. To prove that theirs was virtually the same, they deprived some bees of their own pollen-filled comb and substituted the synthesized version. The scientist then fed the bees manmade pollen. The results; the bees died even though all the known nutrients were present in the lab-produced synthesized food. These scientists conducted many thousands of chemical analyses of bee pollen with the very latest diagnostic equipment, but there are still some elements present in bee pollen that science cannot identify. The bees add some mysterious "extra" of their own. These unidentifiable elements may very well be the reason bee pollen has worked so spectacularly throughout history for so many athletes.

Honey and pollen combination was used to treat burns and other skin injuries in India and South America . Bee pollen mixed with honey and warm milk has traditionally been used for sore throats and laryngitis in Europe . Honey and pollen poultices were used for treatment of respiratory ailments including bronchitis and asthma. Bee pollen was also an ingredient used for an Oriental anti-aging formulation along with honey, ginseng and orange peel.

Bee Pollen, is the Perfect Food the Perfect Protein?

The tiniest pollen contains more amino acids that make up protein than any other food and drink of the same weight available in the world? Bee pollen from the bee hive is enriched with essential and non-essential amino acids (contains all the 20 amino acids) that make up the proteins that form our body. These proteins together with a lot of other essential nutrients and enzymes are needed for living by the human body.

Bee pollen contains all the essential building block components of life. The percentage of rejuvenating elements in bee pollen remarkably exceeds those present in brewer's yeast and wheat germ. Bee pollen corrects the deficient or unbalanced nutrition, in the commonly accepted incomplete foods found in our present day civilization. Bee pollen also offsets those added chemical ingredients, which expose us to physiological and psychological problems as various as they are numerous and dangerous.

The benefit of bee pollen for building muscle is even more valuable as we age to keep and maintain the body's overall proper muscular movement and activity.

What Will Bee Pollen Do for Me?

Physical Energy: When you first start taking bee pollen you may feel a significant increase in your energy right away, definitely within a week or so. Over time, the consistent use of bee pollen will improve your energy, strength, stamina, and endurance.

Mental Energy: Where previously you may have felt stress, anxiety, slight depression or a lack of mental alertness. Now, over a short period of time you notice a greater feeling of general mental well-being and high mental alertness. Over the long-term with regular use of bee pollen you will notice that the alleviation of other mental energy drainers is permanent.

Skin Texture Changes: Notice how your skin feels you may notice problem areas changing fairly quickly as the bee pollen moves throughout your body. Where you had dryness, inflammation, eczema, or wounds slow to heal, you may now notice the relief of symptoms and now you have smooth, toned and healthy skin in place of the old.

One of the most important bee pollen facts is that it is rich in antioxidants

The antioxidants in bee pollen are compounds chemists call flavonoids. Bee pollen packs the punch of myricetin, quercetin, rutin, and trans-cinnamic acid. You don't need to remember their names, but take a look at what they can do for you.

Myricetin, a naturally occurring phytochemical, has potent skin anticancer-promoting activity. Quercetin is a natural antihistamine - the right kind of pollen can be beneficial for your allergies! Rutin is best known as the remedy for varicose veins. Rutin protects veins throughout the body and may help prevent cancer as well. Your body uses trans-cinnamic acid to make its own antibiotics, and this potent nutrient also powers the detoxifying processes of the liver.

Before You Go, Let Me Give You a Few More Good Reasons to Take Bee Pollen

Over the long-term, regular consumption of bee pollen will help alleviate many different health problems, slow down the aging process, and improve your quality of life. The benefits of bee pollen are vast. It has been scientifically researched and proven to be an immune booster, a reliable source of acquiring vitamins and minerals in the body, and has a wide array of essential proteins.

Bee pollen has been shown to increase sexual functions in men, as well as increase libido in women. Bee pollen actually stimulates each and every organ in the body as well as the glands. The pollen that comes from the bee has been linked to a longer life span and increased longevity.

It is said in general to rejuvenate the body including the skin. Another common finding in studies involving bee pollen is that it can be used as a weight loss alternative as well as showing some appetite suppressant properties.

Dosage

When taking Bee Pollen as part of a health program, always start out with small doses as some have reported allergy symptoms connected with its use.

Note: If you have ever suffered from anaphylactic shock you are in danger taking even a small amount of bee pollen. You are someone who should consider a complete deep tissue cleansing.

Paul Blake is a doctor of herbal medicine and a master herbalist. He used naturopathic medicine to treat his own case of cancer eighteen years ago. Visit Paul's website on Herbal Remedies, Natural Healing Herbs for more interesting info rmation on improving your health, or Paul's Health Blog .

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Acid Alkaline Balance is the Ailment, the Disease is Cancer and all Chronic Afflictions.

Posted Sunday, February 08, 2009 (290 days 2 hours ago.) Viewed 160 times.

The Nasty Blunt Truth about Modern Medicine and Cancer! "Modern Medicine's Secret Ph Cure"

Any American who was ever treated for cancer by modern medicine has been ripped off, are you one of them? There are many someones right now screaming their lungs out because they are dying of a cancerous disease and there is no pain killer strong enough to help them. But guess what; not only are they dying a horrible death, they are being deceived by the institutions that are supposed to help them? Those institutions who found the cure for cancer are withholding it from those who need it. That is right; they would rather see you die than apply the cure that they have known about for years.

Here are a couple of direct hits between the eyes of those institutions. The real search for a cancer cure has been over for years. Anyone who asks for money to help find the cure for cancer is a fool, a charlatan or a liar. Modern medicine long ago cured cancer but told no one what they did. You heard me right, modern medicine found the cure for all cancers years ago. And any doctor who says that statement is wrong is either a total fool who should not hold a doctorate degree or a complete liar.

Read this next paragraph and you will see why I would make so many bold statements about one of the biggest most respected institutions in the world. This next paragraph says it all and cannot be denied, it is the absolute smoking gun.

Dr. Otto Warburg (doctorate degrees in both chemistry and medicine) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1931 for the discovery that, unlike healthy cells in the human body, cancer cells do not "breathe" oxygen (and except for Adolf Hitler would have been awarded a second Nobel Prize for more work in the same area of research). Cancer cells are anaerobic. In other words, they function with no oxygen present. In fact, cancer cells cannot survive in the presence of high levels of oxygen.

Dr. Warburg, in his Nobel Prize winning study, illustrated the environment of the cancer cell. A normal healthy cell undergoes an adverse change when it can no longer receive oxygen to convert glucose into energy. In the absence of oxygen, the cell reverts to a primal nutritional program to nourish itself by converting glucose through the process of fermentation. The lactic acid produced by fermentation lowers the cell pH (acid/alkaline balance) and destroys the ability of DNA and RNA to control cell division. The cancer cells then begin to multiply. The lactic acid simultaneously causes severe local pain as it destroys cell enzymes. Cancer appears as a rapidly growing external cell covering, with a core of dead cells.

Simply put, Dr. Warburg won the Nobel Prize for showing that cancer thrives in an anaerobic (without oxygen), or acidic condition. In other words, the main cause for cancer is acidity of the human body caused by the individual eating too many acid foods. This acid environment restricts the oxygen to cells and leads to cancer.

This discovery of Dr. Warburg's leads us directly to the cure for cancer. The cure for cancer is to undo this acidic environment by removing the source of the problem. Remove the acid environment (too many acid foods and acidic toxic waste) that the cancer thrives in. This new environment with its balance between acid and alkali brings in oxygen destroying the cancer cells.

Sounds too simple, you might say. That's what I said as I fought prostate cancer. I had some doubts, but it worked. The cleaner I got my body through detoxing, cleansing and lifestyle changes, the faster my acid and alkali balanced. My symptoms were gone in 3 months and I got my health back. A year later I was cancer free.

I had doubts like you, because like you I was fed large doses of misleading info rmation from people and institutions I entrusted with my health. Many doctors and scientists in modern medicine are totally sincere in their belief that it works. While there are others who have another agenda and it has nothing to do with helping me or anyone else by curing cancer. They do not want a cure because cures mean low profits. They have lead the fight to cure cancer with your money for decades and decades. But the cure will never be found by poisoning, cutting or burning with radiation and laser beams. That is the direction where the money driven industry wants research to go but there is no cure in that direction.

You might also be suspicious because this discovery was made in 1931. Well the guidelines were just as tough then to get past the Nobel committee as they are now. The experiments that lead Dr. Warburg to his discovery were tested and retested by other scientists who came up with the same conclusions. Those same conclusions still stand today ready to be tested if someone wants to disprove his findings but no one comes forward because his findings are the truth.

Many experts in the health field see this Nobel Prize work of Dr. Warburg's as the greatest medical discovery of all time. First, by curing cancer it will save millions upon millions of lives across the world. But, that is only the beginning because if you adjust your diet this way you also cure all the autoimmune diseases of which there are over 60 at this point. You can also add in total immunity to all germs and viruses because they, like cancer, cannot live in an environment where there is plenty of oxygen and a strong immune system.

I have even seen some deride and belittle Dr. Warburg for living the lifestyle that he found would keep a person cancer free. These are the same small minds that would keep you on their path of disease and treatment for the rest of your life. When Dr. Warburg came up against small minds like these he was known to quote an aphorism he attributed to physicist Max Planck "that science doesn't progress because scientists change their minds, but rather because scientists attached to erroneous views die, and are replaced with a new generation that is familiar with the truth". Dr. Warburg finished one of his most famous speeches with the following statement:"... nobody today can say that one does not know what cancer and its prime cause is. On the contrary, there is no disease whose prime cause is better known, so that today ignorance is no longer an excuse that one cannot do more about prevention."

How to Balance Your Ph to Kill Cancer and Stay Healthy

Some of the following info rmation was extracted from my article titled "I Am An Omnivore, We Are All Omnivores"

Why isn't our ph balanced by what we eat, what is wrong with the American diet? In America , as in most countries, we eat typically for entertainment not for nutrition. We do not eat the food that our body is designed to thrive on. We eat like someone who buys a car, puts regular unleaded gas in the tank when the owner's manual says premium only. This is a guarantee that over time you will get ill and find yourself on prescription medication. By the time you are middle-aged you will have a chronic debilitating disease and be on the slippery slope to a hospital, and then a rest home.

There is one very essential ingredient missing from the American diet that can balance our ph. We do not eat enough raw produce which is a basic fundamental law of human nutrition. Produce is where we get the alkaline that neutralizes the acid foods that we eat. Acid foods are meat, dairy, beans and grains and their products such as bread. These acid foods must be neutralized by the alkaline foods. The failure to do so leads to disease. Well we do not do that in America and you can see the disastrous results of breaking this fundamental law everywhere. America is sick because we have gotten too far away from the human body's basic nutritional root, raw produce, and it is killing us.

As humans evolved, we adapted to a certain style of eating because of environmental pressures. For thousands upon thousands of years our main pressure was finding enough food to keep ourselves and our family mates alive. If you visualize yourself in their position, the grocery store was the environment they lived in. To survive you must know every source of food available, every eatable plant, fruit, seed, and animal to keep yourself and family fed. We learned to take advantage of nature by being opportunists to increase our chances to find the nutrition we needed. We studied nature via the great teacher, survival.

If you put yourself in their position, where hunting did not evolve for thousands of years in the future, the pressure of hunger drives you to gather those things that cannot get away from you. Plants are everywhere and it does not take long to figure out which are edible and which are not. One clue is to watch other animals eat and you soon discover that there is a storehouse of food right in front of you.

There was no specific amount of this meat and that seed, vegetable or fruit that we turned to. We gathered what we could, but I think it's easy to say that we always turned to those green plants growing and available in so many places. If we could find nothing else, we could always find something green to fill at least some of that empty place in our gut.

You might be saying right now that this does not sound very nutritious. Well guess what, nutritional science has proven that the most densely nutritious food on the planet is not meat or dairy. The most densely nutritious food on planet earth are the green foods.

Our digestion evolved around this style of eating, lots of greens, grains, seeds and raw things with meat when the opportunity arose. So we are what is called an omnivore by some scientists, but we are a specialized type of omnivore. We eat meat, but that is not a strong side for us. Even our stomach acid matches an herbivore, 4 to 5 ph (true omnivores and carnivores have a ph of 1, very acidic). A bear is an omnivore, but unlike us has the built-in weapons to kill other animals and eat them. Here are other omnivores: possums, pigs, chimpanzees, rats, chickens, crows, piranhas and turtles.

If you read carefully what I just said, you will notice that we are an animal who is not a true meat eater. We can, but our body is built to only tolerate a small amount daily. If we were an omnivore who eats more meat than other foods we would have those weapons to kill animals and stomach acid to digest them, and we would sweat through our tongue not our skin. We would also eat them raw, skin, hair, bones, guts and all, like all other omnivores. Let me know if you ever see a bear bring down a deer, gut it, skin it and cook it over a fire. Eating that way would make any omnivore sick in a short amount of time.

If you are like most Americans you do not eat much raw, alkali foods, in one day. Let's just say that for breakfast today you had 2 eggs, 3 pieces of bacon, 2 slices of toast, with coffee. You could call this a very typical breakfast for many Americans. At lunch you stopped for a hamburger, fries and a coke. For supper that night at home, you had 2 pork chops, cooked green beans, mashed potatoes with gravy and a salad with dressing plus a slice of apple pie for desert.

Now, let's add up this days food to discover why it is so poor and will make you fat and sick. Out of all of that food the raw, alkali containing food was the smallest amount. None at breakfast, some at lunch, the onion, tomato and lettuce in the burger qualified. The salad with dinner was raw and qualified but we cannot count green beans and mashed potatoes because they were cooked, and so were the apples in the pie. Cooking food destroys almost all nutritional value. So, out of all of that food, there was only a small amount with any food value. The rest of the food that day was cooked acidic food which is pretty much worthless. Here is how worthless. If you have ever owned a composter they will tell you on the directions never put cooked food in the composter it is worthless.

So if you want to get your ph balanced and you want to get the most from nutrition and avoid disease, move to lots of live produce with each meal. My suggestion is to eat nothing but fruit at breakfast like a fruit smoothie. At lunch and dinner what I do is measure at least one pound of raw vegetables as a salad to go with each meal like lettuce, cucumber, broccoli, squash, tomato, spinach, avocado etc. You may think this is a lot of produce, that you could never eat that much. You can easily eat that much and more. My friend Jackie, who is 5 1, ate a pound for lunch and a pound and a half for supper every day and lost 40 pounds of excess weight over a 3 month period. She told me she will never go back to her old style of eating that she feels and looks to good. Eat meat if you like; do not eat any refined foods, of course, such as sugar, white rice, white bread etc.

Adding lots of produce to your lifestyle this way will bring positive changes in your health. One thing I noticed when I ate this way is my stomach always feels very comfortable. Even if I overeat it feels good.

To assist you in balancing your ph bring in a high quality super green food. They have the produce in a concentrated alkali form. Add them to your foods such as entrees, salads and drinks to enhance the nutrition and increase digestion and assimilation of all your food. Also take them with you when you are eating out or traveling. They can also replace your multi-vitamin because they are loaded with real food vitamins your body can absorb naturally.

Almost everyone is taking vitamin supplements or some kind of fortified drink or another. Most Vitamins on the market are a sham they do not come from food and so cannot be assimilated by humans. The law of nature that we cannot break is "that if it has not come to us through a living plant we cannot get any nutrition from it". No matter what the manufacturer says you can only assimilate food grown or whole food vitamins. These whole food vitamins can also help you balance your body's ph.

How Can I Check My Ph to See If the Changes I Made Are Working?

The most accurate method I have found for checking your ph is First AM, Last PM urine method. Buy yourself some ph litmus testing strips that you can find in almost any drug or health food store. The litmus paper strips change color when they are dipped in liquid. Compare the color the paper turns to the test color chart that comes with the test kit. The technique for finding your ph is very simple, when you first get up in the morning test you urine the first time you urinate. The last time you urinate before you go to bed test your urine then. Do this for a full seven days keeping a list of the numbers you found. At the end of seven days total up the numbers and divide by 7 to get your average ph for the seven days.

How would you like to be treated in the hospital of a country that was ranked number 24 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Well guess what, you are living in that country, as the USA is ranked number 24 by the W.H.O. Isn't that interesting that for years and years we were always number 1 and lead the word when it came to medicine. I'll give you another surprise. As we all know heart disease is the number one killer of Americans, and everyone also knows that cancer is the number two killer of Americans. Guess what is the number three killer of us Americans my friends? It is the American Medical System itself. That is the number three killer of the American people.

In closing I would like to say that one of the most important things I was told by the Naturopathic Doctor who started me on this path was "You must take charge of your own health you cannot leave it up to someone else."

Paul Blake is a doctor of herbal medicine and a master herbalist. He used naturopathic medicine to treat his own case of cancer eighteen years ago. Visit Pauls website on Herbal Remedies, Natural Healing Herbs for more interesting info rmation on improving your health, or discover more info rmation about super green foods .

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