I always tell my clients:
“If you want to lose weight, then health is a priority. You will never see a fat healthy person. It’s physiologically impossible to be fat and healthy.”
In this article I am going to concentrate on the importance of alkalisation and health. If you alkalise effectively, your energy is improved enormously and the side effect is FAT LOSS!!!
“An alkaline body can absorb up to 20 times more oxygen than an acidic body.” Not my words but those of Dr Otto Warburg, Nobel Prize Winner. He also found that diseased bodies are acidic bodies, which repel oxygen and attract the overgrowth of micro-organisms, therefore becoming highly pleomorphic (meaning many forms).
As your body becomes acidic, your body's oxygen level begins to drop, leaving you tired and fatigued. This is what allows fungus, mould, parasites, bad bacteria and viral infections to flourish and gain a hold throughout the body.
The biggest causes of acidity in the human organism are as follows:
• Negative thinking
• Relationship and financial stress
• Tap water , tea, coffee and alcohol
• Animal protein
• Dairy foods( including those garbage whey and casein drinks!)
• Processed sugar (especially carbonated drinks)
• Processed foods
• Cooked food
• Pharmaceutical drugs
• Anaerobic exercise
This pretty much covers 99 % of people’s diets. This is why we have an epidemic of disease in our society. Open your eyes and see if you can spot happy healthy people because it’s like trying to spot a dodo!!!
To increase alkalinity in the human organism, you need the following:
• Positive thinking
• Happy relationship
• Alkalised water (see my Micro Ioniser water machine)
• Adopt a 80% raw food diet
• Adopt a 80% alkaline diet e.g. vegetables, fruits & legumes
• Correct breathing
• Get the right dose of sunshine
• Aerobic exercise
At a pH slightly above 7.4 cancer cells become dormant and at pH 8.5 cancer cells will die while healthy cells will live.
Oxygen cannot stick to blood cells if the pH of the blood is too acidic. You can breathe pure oxygen, but if the blood pH is acidic, the oxygen will not be able to be picked up by the blood cells. It is chemically impossible. The blood must be normal. Normal blood has a pH of around 7.365 pH.
Remember that ATP (ENERGY) is dependent upon oxygen availability. Then doesn’t it make perfect sense to increase the body’s oxygen levels? You will automatically increase energy levels.
Arthur C. Guyton, M.D., considered the world's most recognized author on human physiology, has spent the better part of his life studying the pH or acid/alkaline balance of the body. In his "Textbook of Medical Physiology" which is used to train medical students he states
"The first step in maintaining health is to alkalize the body.”
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Alexis Carrel did an experiment [1912-1940] keeping cells from a chicken heart alive and reproducing new cells for 28 years!
A chicken's lifespan is far less than this. Why did these chicken cells live so well and so long? Dr Carrel did this by placing the cells in a saline solution, that was the perfect temperature, pH, and nutrient/mineral balance.
He replaced this solution daily (cleaning away the toxic [acidic] wastes). Eventually, after 28 years the purpose of the experiment was achieved. The cells did not die of aging they simply stopped the experiment and Dr. Carrel concluded the following;
"The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats which degenerates. Renew this fluid at intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition and, as far as we know, the pulsation of life may go on forever."
So, cells do not have to age or become diseased. At least one reason they do is because of the acidic wastes which are trapped in the cells. When cells are properly nourished, bathed and cleansed daily, they're allowed to function properly and they don't become diseased.
We can't take our cells, put them into a perfectly formulated solution and change this solution daily like Dr. Carrel did, but we can drink plenty of alkaline ionized water daily and add Alkalising Salts.
Every biochemical reaction is pH sensitive, with enzymes being especially sensitive. Our diet plays an important role in maintaining appropriate pH levels in the body. This is why energy is increased when you eat an alkaline diet which consists of lots of green vegetables and alkaline fluids. ENZYMES function more efficiently with an alkaline Ph giving you more ENERGY and regeneration capabilities.
Raising pH increases the immune system's ability to kill bacteria, concludes a study conducted at The Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine in London.
Viruses and bacteria that cause bronchitis and colds thrive in an acidic environment.
When you feel yourself coming down with a cold or flu like symptoms, this is when I strongly advise shifting your PH levels towards a higher alkalinity state using the alkalizing salts and a meat, dairy and sugar free diet whilst following a vegan raw food diet.
When we become acidic, we also start losing calcium and magnesium out of the blood and the bones. Minerals are harnessed in a mandatory need to keep the blood pH slightly alkaline. This becomes a losing game, for most people are also deficient in magnesium and other basic buffering minerals.
A combination of four highly alkalising, powerful carbonate mineral salts, Alkalising Salts is incredibly effective at boosting the alkalinity of the body.
The effect of the four powerful bicarbonate mineral salts in Alkalising Salts have been scientifically validated in the American Journal of Nutrition (probably the most respected scientific nutrition journal in the world,) the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (another ‘top ranked’ scientific journal), the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, the Nutrition Journal and many more.
Alkalising Salts: Powerful, Scientifically Proven Alkaline Mineral Salts Immediately Neutralise Even The Most Acidic Body and Instantly Give The Benefits of the Alkaline Diet.
When your body does not have enough alkaline minerals to neutralise the acids you consume, it is catastrophic to your body. This over-acidity leads to a whole host of symptoms including fat gain, muscle loss, fatigue and premature aging.
Alkalising Salts contains only the four proven, strongest and most necessary alkaline mineral salts – designed to work exactly how your body works, to dramatically increase alkalinity.
Dosage for the Alkalising Salts: start off with ½ teaspoon in the morning before breakfast and work up to 1 teaspoon in a glass of alkalized ionized water.
So in summary: when you increase your alkalinity you have more energy and oxygen, which will enhance your metabolism, allowing you to burn more fat for fuel.
Remember: You are only as healthy as the fluids your cells are bathed in. No different to what Dr .Alexis Carrel found during his chicken heart cell experiment which went on for an amazing 28 years!
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The Insanity of Putting Mercury in People's Mouths
Eight million mercury fillings are put in people’s mouths in Britain every year. This includes children. This is insanity in its highest order and the British Dental Association is an absolute disgrace. They continually deny that mercury fillings cause any health concerns.
Mercury, considered to be both the most toxic non-radioactive element and the most volatile heavy metal SHOULD NEVER be placed in people’s mouths.
How is it that the only place mercury is safe is in the mouth?
Dr. Boyd Halley, Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Professor in the College of Pharmacy and in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Kentucky and an NIH Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Physiology, at Yale University Medical School has conducted some of the most important research on the biochemical effects of inorganic mercury, specifically from dental amalgams. His results have never been refuted. Dr. Halley has proven, beyond any challenge, that mercury vapour is released from dental amalgam fillings in large concentrations Even in fillings more than 20 years old.
Each amalgam filling has as much mercury as a thermometer, and its poisonous vapors are constantly emitted from the teeth to the brain. This is a particular risk, according to the U.S. government, to the developing brain of the child. The foetus is at the greatest risk of all if the pregnant woman has dental fillings drilled out or implanted, because of the proven transport of mercury through the placenta. So too is the nursing infant of a woman with amalgam dental fillings, because of the transport of mercury into the breast milk.
If a single large amalgam filling contained 1 gram of mercury (1 million micrograms) and lost a significantly toxic 10 micrograms per day, there would be enough mercury for 100,000 days or about 274 years of exposure. A small, tenth of a gram, mercury filling would last 27 years. So enough mercury is within amalgam fillings to provide consistent chronic toxic exposure for the life of most fillings.
Mercury and the Heart
Mercury Found a Factor in Congestive Heart Failure
Researchers at the Catholic University in Rome have tested patients with advanced congested heart failure and found a 'marked elevation' of mercury in the heart tissue - in the order of a massive 22,000 times higher than normal. Because heart tissues absorb a large percentage of mercury entering the body, cardiologists need to pay attention to the nightmare of mercury toxicity that is threatening our hearts with cardiac arrest.
Soviet doctors who studied workers exposed to mercury, found that the heavy metal had a profound effect on the heart, interfering with its normal contractions, electrical conductivity and overall regulation. They also found that mercury accumulated in the heart tissue and valves. Inhaled mercury vapour from amalgam fillings travels rapidly to heart tissue.
Finnish men with the highest concentrations of mercury in their hair also had the highest death rates from cardiovascular disease, congestive heart failure and stroke, (2002 study presented at the American Heart Association's Asia Pacific Scientific Conference.)
Researchers also found that mercury accumulated in the heart tissue and valves even when very little is found elsewhere in the body. Why this happens is not known, but researchers are clear that mercury adversely affects heart metabolism and worsens cellular function. Mercury adversely affects the myocardium in a sub clinical manner but eventually becomes the background basis for pathological shifts that undermine heart health. The most noticeable shifts are in beat frequency and voltage.
Mercury and the Thyroid Gland
There are four iodine binding sites or receptors on the thyroid gland. These receptors bind with the iodine we get from our diet. The iodine enters the thyroid and activates it. If the thyroid is not absorbing enough iodine it will not be fully activated and the body's temperature will be abnormally low.
Enter dental mercury. I discovered that mercury from dental fillings can migrate to the thyroid gland and can sit on one or more of the thyroid's four iodine receptors, blocking iodine from reaching the receptors, thereby preventing full activation of the thyroid. Blocked by dental mercury, iodine cannot be absorbed in normal amounts by the thyroid gland. The result is low body temperature or hypothyroidism.
“ underactive thyroid gland can contribute to heart disease and the propensity to sustain a heart attack.” states Broda O Barnes, M.D. a Connecticut physician who specialized in identifying and treating the many unsuspected connections between low thyroid activity and health problems. “I am convinced that we are seeing today many more people with low thyroid function than ever before” explained Dr. Barnes “and that the rising incidence of heart attacks is related to the rising incidence of hypothyroidism.”
Mercury is a toxic metal with significant effects on the thyroid. There is ample evidence that mercury leaches from dental amalgam fillings and contributes to thyroid disease and anaemia. While large doses of mercury can induce hyperthyroidism, smaller amounts can induce hypothyroidism by interfering with both the production of thyroxin (T4) and the conversion of T4 to T3.
Mercury inhibits the conversion of thyroid hormones T4 (thyroxine) to T3 (triiodothyronine)—a process called monodeiodination. Decreased T3 levels are often associated with fatigue, depression, erratic heat regulation, high cholesterol, and numerous other thyroid-related ailments.
Regarding the thyroid, selenium is a component of the enzyme that helps convert T4 to T3 peripherally, so deficiencies of selenium may impair thyroid function and promote hypothyroidism. Taking selenium with Lugols Iodine is a great way to kick start the thyroid and help the body detoxify mercury.
Link to buy lugols iodine here
Mercury and oxygen starvation
In short, mercury interferes with a whole host of vital body functions and destroys body chemistry. For instance, chronic fatigue can be related to oxygen insufficiency. Mercury prevents oxygen from binding with the haemoglobin in red blood cells.
Hemoglobin has passenger seats for oxygen that are called binding sites. Each binding site is capable of binding to one oxgygen molecule and transporting it to tissues that are low in oxygen. Oxygen jumps off the passenger seat and leaps to help deprived tissue with little effort.
SHOULD MERCURY COME ALONG, UNLIKE OXYGEN, IT JUMPS INTO THE PASSENGER SEAT, BUCKLES UP, AND PLANS TO STAY THERE UNTIL THE RED BLOOD CELL IS RECYCLED. WHEN ENOUGH MERCURY COMBINES WITH THESE PASSENGER SEATS ON THE HEMOGLOBIN, THE BODY EXPERIENCES CHRONIC FATIGUE DUE TO LACK OF OXYGEN TRANSPORT.
I have simply scratched the surface on the dangers of having mercury fillings in your mouth. I myself had suffered chronic mercury poisoning for over 25 years and made the huge mistake of having 9 removed in one sitting. If you have amalgam fillings in your mouth, I urge you to get them removed after placing yourself on Heavy Metal Detox for 1 month before and at least 3 months after. Consult with a mercury free dentist who understands the dangers of silver (mercury) fillings about getting them removed.
I also strongly advise using a high dose vitamin C, like my mixed ascorbates alongside the heavy metal detox protocol
HMD™ is a natural, oral, heavy metal chelator backed by a
3-year, $1 million double blind, placebo-controlled study with 350 people!
HMD™ is a Patent-Pending, proprietary synergistic blend of three natural ingredients:
Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF)
Organic Coriandrum sativum leaf
Energized Homaccord Cell-Decimated Chlorella
HMD™ is the only natural, patent-pending, toxic metal chelator in the world to be backed by a 3-year, double-blind, placebo controlled study with 350 people working in a metal foundry.
In scientific clinical research using the "gold standard" double-blind, placebo controlled trial with 350 people, it was shown that after only a 12-hour provocation with HMD™ there were many heavy metals eliminated in the post-urine and feces samples compared to baseline (figures are expressed as a % mean increase:
Antimony - 45%
Arsenic - 7,409%
Bismuth - 564%
Cadmium - 67%
Lead - 483%
Mercury - 448%
Nickel - 80%
Uranium - 707%
Mercury, considered to be both the most toxic non-radioactive element and the most volatile heavy metal SHOULD NEVER be placed in people’s mouths.
How is it that the only place mercury is safe is in the mouth?
Dr. Boyd Halley, Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Professor in the College of Pharmacy and in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Kentucky and an NIH Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Physiology, at Yale University Medical School has conducted some of the most important research on the biochemical effects of inorganic mercury, specifically from dental amalgams. His results have never been refuted. Dr. Halley has proven, beyond any challenge, that mercury vapour is released from dental amalgam fillings in large concentrations Even in fillings more than 20 years old.
Each amalgam filling has as much mercury as a thermometer, and its poisonous vapors are constantly emitted from the teeth to the brain. This is a particular risk, according to the U.S. government, to the developing brain of the child. The foetus is at the greatest risk of all if the pregnant woman has dental fillings drilled out or implanted, because of the proven transport of mercury through the placenta. So too is the nursing infant of a woman with amalgam dental fillings, because of the transport of mercury into the breast milk.
If a single large amalgam filling contained 1 gram of mercury (1 million micrograms) and lost a significantly toxic 10 micrograms per day, there would be enough mercury for 100,000 days or about 274 years of exposure. A small, tenth of a gram, mercury filling would last 27 years. So enough mercury is within amalgam fillings to provide consistent chronic toxic exposure for the life of most fillings.
Mercury and the Heart
Mercury Found a Factor in Congestive Heart Failure
Researchers at the Catholic University in Rome have tested patients with advanced congested heart failure and found a 'marked elevation' of mercury in the heart tissue - in the order of a massive 22,000 times higher than normal. Because heart tissues absorb a large percentage of mercury entering the body, cardiologists need to pay attention to the nightmare of mercury toxicity that is threatening our hearts with cardiac arrest.
Soviet doctors who studied workers exposed to mercury, found that the heavy metal had a profound effect on the heart, interfering with its normal contractions, electrical conductivity and overall regulation. They also found that mercury accumulated in the heart tissue and valves. Inhaled mercury vapour from amalgam fillings travels rapidly to heart tissue.
Finnish men with the highest concentrations of mercury in their hair also had the highest death rates from cardiovascular disease, congestive heart failure and stroke, (2002 study presented at the American Heart Association's Asia Pacific Scientific Conference.)
Researchers also found that mercury accumulated in the heart tissue and valves even when very little is found elsewhere in the body. Why this happens is not known, but researchers are clear that mercury adversely affects heart metabolism and worsens cellular function. Mercury adversely affects the myocardium in a sub clinical manner but eventually becomes the background basis for pathological shifts that undermine heart health. The most noticeable shifts are in beat frequency and voltage.
Mercury and the Thyroid Gland
There are four iodine binding sites or receptors on the thyroid gland. These receptors bind with the iodine we get from our diet. The iodine enters the thyroid and activates it. If the thyroid is not absorbing enough iodine it will not be fully activated and the body's temperature will be abnormally low.
Enter dental mercury. I discovered that mercury from dental fillings can migrate to the thyroid gland and can sit on one or more of the thyroid's four iodine receptors, blocking iodine from reaching the receptors, thereby preventing full activation of the thyroid. Blocked by dental mercury, iodine cannot be absorbed in normal amounts by the thyroid gland. The result is low body temperature or hypothyroidism.
“ underactive thyroid gland can contribute to heart disease and the propensity to sustain a heart attack.” states Broda O Barnes, M.D. a Connecticut physician who specialized in identifying and treating the many unsuspected connections between low thyroid activity and health problems. “I am convinced that we are seeing today many more people with low thyroid function than ever before” explained Dr. Barnes “and that the rising incidence of heart attacks is related to the rising incidence of hypothyroidism.”
Mercury is a toxic metal with significant effects on the thyroid. There is ample evidence that mercury leaches from dental amalgam fillings and contributes to thyroid disease and anaemia. While large doses of mercury can induce hyperthyroidism, smaller amounts can induce hypothyroidism by interfering with both the production of thyroxin (T4) and the conversion of T4 to T3.
Mercury inhibits the conversion of thyroid hormones T4 (thyroxine) to T3 (triiodothyronine)—a process called monodeiodination. Decreased T3 levels are often associated with fatigue, depression, erratic heat regulation, high cholesterol, and numerous other thyroid-related ailments.
Regarding the thyroid, selenium is a component of the enzyme that helps convert T4 to T3 peripherally, so deficiencies of selenium may impair thyroid function and promote hypothyroidism. Taking selenium with Lugols Iodine is a great way to kick start the thyroid and help the body detoxify mercury.
Link to buy lugols iodine here
Mercury and oxygen starvation
In short, mercury interferes with a whole host of vital body functions and destroys body chemistry. For instance, chronic fatigue can be related to oxygen insufficiency. Mercury prevents oxygen from binding with the haemoglobin in red blood cells.
Hemoglobin has passenger seats for oxygen that are called binding sites. Each binding site is capable of binding to one oxgygen molecule and transporting it to tissues that are low in oxygen. Oxygen jumps off the passenger seat and leaps to help deprived tissue with little effort.
SHOULD MERCURY COME ALONG, UNLIKE OXYGEN, IT JUMPS INTO THE PASSENGER SEAT, BUCKLES UP, AND PLANS TO STAY THERE UNTIL THE RED BLOOD CELL IS RECYCLED. WHEN ENOUGH MERCURY COMBINES WITH THESE PASSENGER SEATS ON THE HEMOGLOBIN, THE BODY EXPERIENCES CHRONIC FATIGUE DUE TO LACK OF OXYGEN TRANSPORT.
I have simply scratched the surface on the dangers of having mercury fillings in your mouth. I myself had suffered chronic mercury poisoning for over 25 years and made the huge mistake of having 9 removed in one sitting. If you have amalgam fillings in your mouth, I urge you to get them removed after placing yourself on Heavy Metal Detox for 1 month before and at least 3 months after. Consult with a mercury free dentist who understands the dangers of silver (mercury) fillings about getting them removed.
I also strongly advise using a high dose vitamin C, like my mixed ascorbates alongside the heavy metal detox protocol
HMD™ is a natural, oral, heavy metal chelator backed by a
3-year, $1 million double blind, placebo-controlled study with 350 people!
HMD™ is a Patent-Pending, proprietary synergistic blend of three natural ingredients:
Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF)
Organic Coriandrum sativum leaf
Energized Homaccord Cell-Decimated Chlorella
HMD™ is the only natural, patent-pending, toxic metal chelator in the world to be backed by a 3-year, double-blind, placebo controlled study with 350 people working in a metal foundry.
In scientific clinical research using the "gold standard" double-blind, placebo controlled trial with 350 people, it was shown that after only a 12-hour provocation with HMD™ there were many heavy metals eliminated in the post-urine and feces samples compared to baseline (figures are expressed as a % mean increase:
Antimony - 45%
Arsenic - 7,409%
Bismuth - 564%
Cadmium - 67%
Lead - 483%
Mercury - 448%
Nickel - 80%
Uranium - 707%
Using Amino Acids to Break PB's in Weight Training
I just had a top trainer from a premiership rugby club ask me why amino work capacity is so awesome. The results that I have had personally and the feedback; from elite athletes through to members of the public who just enjoy training, has been truly amazing.
An elite weight lifter who competes in the GB team added 7 kg to his clean & jerk and 10 kg to his back squat. Now this is truly remarkable.
Glenn Ross’ (UK’s Strongest Man) sums it up:
“Amino Work Capacity is the reason old men still become champions."
Let’s take a look at why Amino Work Capacity is one of the very few products on the market which actually gets RESULTS!
Why Amino load before training, using Amino Work Capacity?
The dosage of one scoop of Amino Work Capacity is a phenomenal 15 grams of essential amino acids. This includes very high amounts of branch chain amino acids, 5 grams of Citruline malate and 5 grams of D- Ribose. I normally recommend 2 – 3 scoops 45 minutes before workouts. This is what has given me the biggest RESULTS.
When consumed 30 - 60 minutes before training, the blood stream will become flooded with amino acids. This forces the brain to flip on the anabolic switch associated with improved performance, muscle growth and body fat reduction. Amino Acid supplementation before workouts is proven to result in higher levels of fat loss during training.
The research proves this, but the mechanism is unknown. It appears that Amino Work Capacity enhances the availability of amino acids via enhanced blood flow (from the exercise) during a workout, which prevents, or reduces the body from breaking down muscle tissue, as it normally does during an intense workout. Always take the aminos on an empty stomach this significantly enhances performance.
Amino Work Capacity enhances brain function!
Amino Acids improve the brain’s ability to concentrate. When you flood the system from the high dosages found in Amino Work Capacity, it significantly improves mental concentration and you feel this almost immediately.
Why add citruline malate to Amino Work Capacity?
This unique combination of the amino acid Citrullline and the organic salt Malate offers athletes a new choice in improving performance and recovery. As an intermediate in the Urea Cycle, Citrulline aids in the removal of endotoxins such as lactic acid and ammonia. These endotoxins are produced through intense physical activity, protein metabolism, and catabolic states. Endotoxins damage living cells and wreak havoc on athletic performance.
Research also points to citrulline as possibly a greater alternative to arginine for enhancing plasma arginine2 levels. Citrulline's effects on endogenous arginine synthesis-mean that CM may be a superior alternative to Arginine for regulating Nitric Oxide production, growth hormone release, insulin and creatine production.
The primary role of L-Citrulline in the body is to support the optimization of blood flow to the tissues, which is critical for helping you not only perform your workouts to the best of your abilities, but also to speed up recovery. LCitrulline functions in the body by being converted to L-arginine and then into nitric oxide. This nitric oxide is then involved with vasodilation. This vasodilation is what helps increase the amount of blood and oxygen that is delivered to the working muscles, helping to prevent both mental and physical fatigue.
And that's not all!
It has also been discovered that supplementing CM at a dose as low as 6 grams a day significantly reduces muscle fatigue, increases ATP production by 34%, and causes a 20% increase in phosphocreatine recovery after exercise. What this means is that citrulline malate improves aerobic metabolism, cellular energy production, and promotes muscular recovery.
Ian Critchlow, Olympic Lifter:
"Since I have started to taking Phil’s Amino Work Capacity it has changed the way I have trained completely. I can train longer, harder and don’t feel as tired as I was before taking the product. I felt tired a couple of times before training, as you do. As I have my first 3 scoops off the work capacity, 45 minutes before that all just seems to disappear! I am then really in the mood to train hard and lift big weights. It has put 10 kilos on my front squat & back squat, 10 kilos on my Clean & jerk and 5 kilos on my snatch. There is no doubt in my mind that this product has done me the world off good to my performance it is the REAL DEAL!!!"
Why add D- Ribose to Amino Work Capacity?
Studies have shown that any amount of D-ribose you give to energy-starved cells gives them an energy boost. At the University of Missouri, researcher Ronald Terjung has shown that even very small doses (the equivalent of about 500 mg) of D-ribose increase energy salvage in muscles by more than 100%. Larger doses increase the production of energy compounds by 340 - 430%, depending on the type of muscle tested. It also improves the salvage of energy compounds by up to 650%.
The D-ribose connection to cardiac function was made by the physiologist Heinz-Gerd Zimmer at the University of Munich. In 1973, he reported that energy-starved hearts could recover faster if D-ribose was given prior to, or immediately following, ischemia (oxygen deprivation). Zimmer’s research sparked a flurry of research on humans, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, and even turkeys, all with similar results. D-ribose administration significantly improved energy recovery in ischemic, hypoxic, or cardiomyopathic hearts and skeletal muscle, and it improved functional performance of the tissue.
The most significant findings of the studies underscored the dramatic effect that D-ribose administration played in both energy restoration and the return of normal diastolic cardiac function. A clinical study from Zimmer’s group in Munich in 1992 showed that D-ribose administration to patients with severe, stable coronary artery disease increased exercise tolerance and delayed the onset of moderate angina.
Most amazing is that when muscles are supplemented with D-ribose, they continue to add to their energy stores even while they actively work! Until this study was reported, it was thought that muscle energy stores were only refilled in muscles at rest.
Amino Work Capacity increases brain function, increases work capacity, decreases recovery time, increases energy production whilst you train and buffers lactic acid. Now I realize why so many people are genuinely having phenomenal results with this amazing product.
Ollie Chapman Strength & Conditioning Coach :
"Over the past 8 days I have been using Phil Richards new amino work capacity, when I started using it last Monday I was on an internship with Phil and he put us through some of the most brutal sessions I've ever done!
Normally after the sort of sessions we had been doing, from heavy strength sessions one day to all out sled drags and super yoke walks the next, I'd have some serious DOM's but I could barely even feel a thing the next day!
I have also never felt such intense focus and level of alertness during training on any product, like I have when using the amino work capacity.
My advice to anyone is get your self a tub of this stuff, but of course, that's only if you want to be stronger, increase the intensity of your training and have no soreness the next day! I personally love it."
An elite weight lifter who competes in the GB team added 7 kg to his clean & jerk and 10 kg to his back squat. Now this is truly remarkable.
Glenn Ross’ (UK’s Strongest Man) sums it up:
“Amino Work Capacity is the reason old men still become champions."
Let’s take a look at why Amino Work Capacity is one of the very few products on the market which actually gets RESULTS!
Why Amino load before training, using Amino Work Capacity?
The dosage of one scoop of Amino Work Capacity is a phenomenal 15 grams of essential amino acids. This includes very high amounts of branch chain amino acids, 5 grams of Citruline malate and 5 grams of D- Ribose. I normally recommend 2 – 3 scoops 45 minutes before workouts. This is what has given me the biggest RESULTS.
When consumed 30 - 60 minutes before training, the blood stream will become flooded with amino acids. This forces the brain to flip on the anabolic switch associated with improved performance, muscle growth and body fat reduction. Amino Acid supplementation before workouts is proven to result in higher levels of fat loss during training.
The research proves this, but the mechanism is unknown. It appears that Amino Work Capacity enhances the availability of amino acids via enhanced blood flow (from the exercise) during a workout, which prevents, or reduces the body from breaking down muscle tissue, as it normally does during an intense workout. Always take the aminos on an empty stomach this significantly enhances performance.
Amino Work Capacity enhances brain function!
Amino Acids improve the brain’s ability to concentrate. When you flood the system from the high dosages found in Amino Work Capacity, it significantly improves mental concentration and you feel this almost immediately.
Why add citruline malate to Amino Work Capacity?
This unique combination of the amino acid Citrullline and the organic salt Malate offers athletes a new choice in improving performance and recovery. As an intermediate in the Urea Cycle, Citrulline aids in the removal of endotoxins such as lactic acid and ammonia. These endotoxins are produced through intense physical activity, protein metabolism, and catabolic states. Endotoxins damage living cells and wreak havoc on athletic performance.
Research also points to citrulline as possibly a greater alternative to arginine for enhancing plasma arginine2 levels. Citrulline's effects on endogenous arginine synthesis-mean that CM may be a superior alternative to Arginine for regulating Nitric Oxide production, growth hormone release, insulin and creatine production.
The primary role of L-Citrulline in the body is to support the optimization of blood flow to the tissues, which is critical for helping you not only perform your workouts to the best of your abilities, but also to speed up recovery. LCitrulline functions in the body by being converted to L-arginine and then into nitric oxide. This nitric oxide is then involved with vasodilation. This vasodilation is what helps increase the amount of blood and oxygen that is delivered to the working muscles, helping to prevent both mental and physical fatigue.
And that's not all!
It has also been discovered that supplementing CM at a dose as low as 6 grams a day significantly reduces muscle fatigue, increases ATP production by 34%, and causes a 20% increase in phosphocreatine recovery after exercise. What this means is that citrulline malate improves aerobic metabolism, cellular energy production, and promotes muscular recovery.
Ian Critchlow, Olympic Lifter:
"Since I have started to taking Phil’s Amino Work Capacity it has changed the way I have trained completely. I can train longer, harder and don’t feel as tired as I was before taking the product. I felt tired a couple of times before training, as you do. As I have my first 3 scoops off the work capacity, 45 minutes before that all just seems to disappear! I am then really in the mood to train hard and lift big weights. It has put 10 kilos on my front squat & back squat, 10 kilos on my Clean & jerk and 5 kilos on my snatch. There is no doubt in my mind that this product has done me the world off good to my performance it is the REAL DEAL!!!"
Why add D- Ribose to Amino Work Capacity?
Studies have shown that any amount of D-ribose you give to energy-starved cells gives them an energy boost. At the University of Missouri, researcher Ronald Terjung has shown that even very small doses (the equivalent of about 500 mg) of D-ribose increase energy salvage in muscles by more than 100%. Larger doses increase the production of energy compounds by 340 - 430%, depending on the type of muscle tested. It also improves the salvage of energy compounds by up to 650%.
The D-ribose connection to cardiac function was made by the physiologist Heinz-Gerd Zimmer at the University of Munich. In 1973, he reported that energy-starved hearts could recover faster if D-ribose was given prior to, or immediately following, ischemia (oxygen deprivation). Zimmer’s research sparked a flurry of research on humans, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, and even turkeys, all with similar results. D-ribose administration significantly improved energy recovery in ischemic, hypoxic, or cardiomyopathic hearts and skeletal muscle, and it improved functional performance of the tissue.
The most significant findings of the studies underscored the dramatic effect that D-ribose administration played in both energy restoration and the return of normal diastolic cardiac function. A clinical study from Zimmer’s group in Munich in 1992 showed that D-ribose administration to patients with severe, stable coronary artery disease increased exercise tolerance and delayed the onset of moderate angina.
Most amazing is that when muscles are supplemented with D-ribose, they continue to add to their energy stores even while they actively work! Until this study was reported, it was thought that muscle energy stores were only refilled in muscles at rest.
Amino Work Capacity increases brain function, increases work capacity, decreases recovery time, increases energy production whilst you train and buffers lactic acid. Now I realize why so many people are genuinely having phenomenal results with this amazing product.
Ollie Chapman Strength & Conditioning Coach :
"Over the past 8 days I have been using Phil Richards new amino work capacity, when I started using it last Monday I was on an internship with Phil and he put us through some of the most brutal sessions I've ever done!
Normally after the sort of sessions we had been doing, from heavy strength sessions one day to all out sled drags and super yoke walks the next, I'd have some serious DOM's but I could barely even feel a thing the next day!
I have also never felt such intense focus and level of alertness during training on any product, like I have when using the amino work capacity.
My advice to anyone is get your self a tub of this stuff, but of course, that's only if you want to be stronger, increase the intensity of your training and have no soreness the next day! I personally love it."
Gain Health Lose Weight Part 1
When clients come to me with the goal of weight loss, then my goal with them is to gain health. You will never see a healthy fat person. Period. My first question to them is
“how much stress is going on in your life?”
If, on the scale of one being the lowest and 10 the highest, the client gives me an 8, my plan for health and weight loss evolve very quickly around walking, jogging, swimming, outdoor boot camps, yoga, meditation and vegetarian 80% raw food diet.
Imagine this client to be a very highly strung businesswoman, lots of stress at work, 2 young children, plenty of sleepless nights, husband doesn’t pull his weight around the house, financial difficulties and to add to this 5 coffees a day just to get her through the day.
This is a very typical scenario, as we all know. I meet people like this every day. Can you imagine adding more stress to this lady by giving her 3 weights sessions per week?! This lady spends 90% of her time indoors and then training in a health club (which should be renamed, in my opinion, to death club,) is going to further stress her.
You must remember that exercise is stress. Only prescribe it when the client can take it and adapt to the stress you prescribe. When you become an expert at prescribing stress, which is what exercise is, your results will improve enormously.
This is a bit different to how I would have approached it 10 years ago. It would have been a case of’ just get on with it.’ I would have put this lady on a high protein diet with lots of weight training to build up the muscle, because as we all know ,you can’t burn fat unless you build muscle. Well, what you must realize is this you can’t build muscle when you are stressed, period. Training at a high intensity, which is what is required when you want to put on lean muscle tissue, is impossible when you are stressed mentally.
The problem of the high protein diet and weight training approach to weight loss is that it increases the stress of the human organism enormously. A high animal protein diet: reduces oxygen within the body. Causes a highly acidic state which causes your blood to become very sticky. Changes the internal terrain to become favorable for disease- promoting microorganisms. Increases putrefication in the bowels, which causes autointoxication… I could go on and on. REMEMBER THIS: cancer thrives in LOW OXYGEN and HIGH ACIDITY. That’s exactly what high protein diets and anaerobic training manifest. I will cover this again in future articles.
When you are mentally stressed and you keep trying to push your body physically, the straw that can break the camel’s back will eventually happen. As I keep telling my athletes/clients
” don’t train unless you can gain.”
This means that unless you can give 100% to your training session, you are wasting your time. in my humble opinion, after training the human organism for over 25 years.
When I approach a training session personally, and I pull up outside the gym or the start of a run - unless I can give it 100% and enjoy it as well, I cancel the session.
Remember this: you either get better or worse, you never stay the same. If this session is not going to make me better, then I need more rest and would rather go for a massage, swim or walk over the mountain, get fresh air and sunlight. I do anything to de-stress. When I arrive for my next session, I can then truly give it 100% and stimulate a result.
If you are going to be able to give 100% to the training session and get the results you deserve for your efforts, you must make sure you work at reducing stress in your life and improve your health. Drink Green Life and Alkalising Salts. Eat organic foods, eliminate animal protein from your diet and get adequate sunlight and sleep .
My second question to my client is “
how much mercury do you have you in your mouth?” and “are there any root canals in there?”
This may seem a strange question to the misinformed person, but let me tell you where I put this on my priority list: I would not even consider training an athlete/client if they had mercury fillings or root canals if they weren’t going to get them removed. Why? I will explain this in great detail in part 2 of this series of “Gain Health Lose Weight. “
“how much stress is going on in your life?”
If, on the scale of one being the lowest and 10 the highest, the client gives me an 8, my plan for health and weight loss evolve very quickly around walking, jogging, swimming, outdoor boot camps, yoga, meditation and vegetarian 80% raw food diet.
Imagine this client to be a very highly strung businesswoman, lots of stress at work, 2 young children, plenty of sleepless nights, husband doesn’t pull his weight around the house, financial difficulties and to add to this 5 coffees a day just to get her through the day.
This is a very typical scenario, as we all know. I meet people like this every day. Can you imagine adding more stress to this lady by giving her 3 weights sessions per week?! This lady spends 90% of her time indoors and then training in a health club (which should be renamed, in my opinion, to death club,) is going to further stress her.
You must remember that exercise is stress. Only prescribe it when the client can take it and adapt to the stress you prescribe. When you become an expert at prescribing stress, which is what exercise is, your results will improve enormously.
This is a bit different to how I would have approached it 10 years ago. It would have been a case of’ just get on with it.’ I would have put this lady on a high protein diet with lots of weight training to build up the muscle, because as we all know ,you can’t burn fat unless you build muscle. Well, what you must realize is this you can’t build muscle when you are stressed, period. Training at a high intensity, which is what is required when you want to put on lean muscle tissue, is impossible when you are stressed mentally.
The problem of the high protein diet and weight training approach to weight loss is that it increases the stress of the human organism enormously. A high animal protein diet: reduces oxygen within the body. Causes a highly acidic state which causes your blood to become very sticky. Changes the internal terrain to become favorable for disease- promoting microorganisms. Increases putrefication in the bowels, which causes autointoxication… I could go on and on. REMEMBER THIS: cancer thrives in LOW OXYGEN and HIGH ACIDITY. That’s exactly what high protein diets and anaerobic training manifest. I will cover this again in future articles.
When you are mentally stressed and you keep trying to push your body physically, the straw that can break the camel’s back will eventually happen. As I keep telling my athletes/clients
” don’t train unless you can gain.”
This means that unless you can give 100% to your training session, you are wasting your time. in my humble opinion, after training the human organism for over 25 years.
When I approach a training session personally, and I pull up outside the gym or the start of a run - unless I can give it 100% and enjoy it as well, I cancel the session.
Remember this: you either get better or worse, you never stay the same. If this session is not going to make me better, then I need more rest and would rather go for a massage, swim or walk over the mountain, get fresh air and sunlight. I do anything to de-stress. When I arrive for my next session, I can then truly give it 100% and stimulate a result.
If you are going to be able to give 100% to the training session and get the results you deserve for your efforts, you must make sure you work at reducing stress in your life and improve your health. Drink Green Life and Alkalising Salts. Eat organic foods, eliminate animal protein from your diet and get adequate sunlight and sleep .
My second question to my client is “
how much mercury do you have you in your mouth?” and “are there any root canals in there?”
This may seem a strange question to the misinformed person, but let me tell you where I put this on my priority list: I would not even consider training an athlete/client if they had mercury fillings or root canals if they weren’t going to get them removed. Why? I will explain this in great detail in part 2 of this series of “Gain Health Lose Weight. “
If you want to lose weight then you must regain your health!!!
I always tell my clients:
“If you want to lose weight, then health is a priority. You will never see a fat healthy person. It’s physiologically impossible to be fat and healthy.”
In this article I am going to concentrate on the importance of alkalisation and health. If you alkalise effectively, your energy is improved enormously and the side effect is FAT LOSS!!!
“An alkaline body can absorb up to 20 times more oxygen than an acidic body.” Not my words but those of Dr Otto Warburg, Nobel Prize Winner. He also found that diseased bodies are acidic bodies, which repel oxygen and attract the overgrowth of micro-organisms, therefore becoming highly pleomorphic (meaning many forms).
As your body becomes acidic, your body's oxygen level begins to drop, leaving you tired and fatigued. This is what allows fungus, mould, parasites, bad bacteria and viral infections to flourish and gain a hold throughout the body.
The biggest causes of acidity in the human organism are as follows:
• Negative thinking
• Relationship and financial stress
• Tap water , tea, coffee and alcohol
• Animal protein
• Dairy foods( including those garbage whey and casein drinks!)
• Processed sugar (especially carbonated drinks)
• Processed foods
• Cooked food
• Pharmaceutical drugs
• Anaerobic exercise
This pretty much covers 99 % of people’s diets. This is why we have an epidemic of disease in our society. Open your eyes and see if you can spot happy healthy people because it’s like trying to spot a dodo!!!
To increase alkalinity in the human organism, you need the following:
• Positive thinking
• Happy relationship
• Alkalised water (see my Micro Ioniser water machine)
• Adopt a 80% raw food diet
• Adopt a 80% alkaline diet e.g. vegetables, fruits & legumes
• Correct breathing
• Get the right dose of sunshine
• Aerobic exercise
At a pH slightly above 7.4 cancer cells become dormant and at pH 8.5 cancer cells will die while healthy cells will live.
Oxygen cannot stick to blood cells if the pH of the blood is too acidic. You can breathe pure oxygen, but if the blood pH is acidic, the oxygen will not be able to be picked up by the blood cells. It is chemically impossible. The blood must be normal. Normal blood has a pH of around 7.365 pH.
Remember that ATP (ENERGY) is dependent upon oxygen availability. Then doesn’t it make perfect sense to increase the body’s oxygen levels? You will automatically increase energy levels.
Arthur C. Guyton, M.D., considered the world's most recognized author on human physiology, has spent the better part of his life studying the pH or acid/alkaline balance of the body. In his "Textbook of Medical Physiology" which is used to train medical students he states
"The first step in maintaining health is to alkalize the body.”
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Alexis Carrel did an experiment [1912-1940] keeping cells from a chicken heart alive and reproducing new cells for 28 years!
A chicken's lifespan is far less than this. Why did these chicken cells live so well and so long? Dr Carrel did this by placing the cells in a saline solution, that was the perfect temperature, pH, and nutrient/mineral balance.
He replaced this solution daily (cleaning away the toxic [acidic] wastes). Eventually, after 28 years the purpose of the experiment was achieved. The cells did not die of aging they simply stopped the experiment and Dr. Carrel concluded the following;
"The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats which degenerates. Renew this fluid at intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition and, as far as we know, the pulsation of life may go on forever."
So, cells do not have to age or become diseased. At least one reason they do is because of the acidic wastes which are trapped in the cells. When cells are properly nourished, bathed and cleansed daily, they're allowed to function properly and they don't become diseased.
We can't take our cells, put them into a perfectly formulated solution and change this solution daily like Dr. Carrel did, but we can drink plenty of alkaline ionized water daily and add Alkalising Salts.
Link to shop: Alkalising Salts
Every biochemical reaction is pH sensitive, with enzymes being especially sensitive. Our diet plays an important role in maintaining appropriate pH levels in the body. This is why energy is increased when you eat an alkaline diet which consists of lots of green vegetables and alkaline fluids. ENZYMES function more efficiently with an alkaline Ph giving you more ENERGY and regeneration capabilities.
Raising pH increases the immune system's ability to kill bacteria, concludes a study conducted at The Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine in London.
Viruses and bacteria that cause bronchitis and colds thrive in an acidic environment.
When you feel yourself coming down with a cold or flu like symptoms, this is when I strongly advise shifting your PH levels towards a higher alkalinity state using the alkalizing salts and a meat, dairy and sugar free diet whilst following a vegan raw food diet.
When we become acidic, we also start losing calcium and magnesium out of the blood and the bones. Minerals are harnessed in a mandatory need to keep the blood pH slightly alkaline. This becomes a losing game, for most people are also deficient in magnesium and other basic buffering minerals.
A combination of four highly alkalising, powerful carbonate mineral salts, Alkalising Salts is incredibly effective at boosting the alkalinity of the body.
The effect of the four powerful bicarbonate mineral salts in Alkalising Salts have been scientifically validated in the American Journal of Nutrition (probably the most respected scientific nutrition journal in the world,) the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (another ‘top ranked’ scientific journal), the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, the Nutrition Journal and many more.
Alkalising Salts: Powerful, Scientifically Proven Alkaline Mineral Salts Immediately Neutralise Even The Most Acidic Body and Instantly Give The Benefits of the Alkaline Diet.
When your body does not have enough alkaline minerals to neutralise the acids you consume, it is catastrophic to your body. This over-acidity leads to a whole host of symptoms including fat gain, muscle loss, fatigue and premature aging.
Alkalising Salts contains only the four proven, strongest and most necessary alkaline mineral salts – designed to work exactly how your body works, to dramatically increase alkalinity.
Dosage for the Alkalising Salts: start off with ½ teaspoon in the morning before breakfast and work up to 1 teaspoon in a glass of alkalized ionized water.
So in summary: when you increase your alkalinity you have more energy and oxygen, which will enhance your metabolism, allowing you to burn more fat for fuel.
Remember: You are only as healthy as the fluids your cells are bathed in. No different to what Dr .Alexis Carrel found during his chicken heart cell experiment which went on for an amazing 28 years!
Link here to Alkalising Salts in shop
“If you want to lose weight, then health is a priority. You will never see a fat healthy person. It’s physiologically impossible to be fat and healthy.”
In this article I am going to concentrate on the importance of alkalisation and health. If you alkalise effectively, your energy is improved enormously and the side effect is FAT LOSS!!!
“An alkaline body can absorb up to 20 times more oxygen than an acidic body.” Not my words but those of Dr Otto Warburg, Nobel Prize Winner. He also found that diseased bodies are acidic bodies, which repel oxygen and attract the overgrowth of micro-organisms, therefore becoming highly pleomorphic (meaning many forms).
As your body becomes acidic, your body's oxygen level begins to drop, leaving you tired and fatigued. This is what allows fungus, mould, parasites, bad bacteria and viral infections to flourish and gain a hold throughout the body.
The biggest causes of acidity in the human organism are as follows:
• Negative thinking
• Relationship and financial stress
• Tap water , tea, coffee and alcohol
• Animal protein
• Dairy foods( including those garbage whey and casein drinks!)
• Processed sugar (especially carbonated drinks)
• Processed foods
• Cooked food
• Pharmaceutical drugs
• Anaerobic exercise
This pretty much covers 99 % of people’s diets. This is why we have an epidemic of disease in our society. Open your eyes and see if you can spot happy healthy people because it’s like trying to spot a dodo!!!
To increase alkalinity in the human organism, you need the following:
• Positive thinking
• Happy relationship
• Alkalised water (see my Micro Ioniser water machine)
• Adopt a 80% raw food diet
• Adopt a 80% alkaline diet e.g. vegetables, fruits & legumes
• Correct breathing
• Get the right dose of sunshine
• Aerobic exercise
At a pH slightly above 7.4 cancer cells become dormant and at pH 8.5 cancer cells will die while healthy cells will live.
Oxygen cannot stick to blood cells if the pH of the blood is too acidic. You can breathe pure oxygen, but if the blood pH is acidic, the oxygen will not be able to be picked up by the blood cells. It is chemically impossible. The blood must be normal. Normal blood has a pH of around 7.365 pH.
Remember that ATP (ENERGY) is dependent upon oxygen availability. Then doesn’t it make perfect sense to increase the body’s oxygen levels? You will automatically increase energy levels.
Arthur C. Guyton, M.D., considered the world's most recognized author on human physiology, has spent the better part of his life studying the pH or acid/alkaline balance of the body. In his "Textbook of Medical Physiology" which is used to train medical students he states
"The first step in maintaining health is to alkalize the body.”
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Alexis Carrel did an experiment [1912-1940] keeping cells from a chicken heart alive and reproducing new cells for 28 years!
A chicken's lifespan is far less than this. Why did these chicken cells live so well and so long? Dr Carrel did this by placing the cells in a saline solution, that was the perfect temperature, pH, and nutrient/mineral balance.
He replaced this solution daily (cleaning away the toxic [acidic] wastes). Eventually, after 28 years the purpose of the experiment was achieved. The cells did not die of aging they simply stopped the experiment and Dr. Carrel concluded the following;
"The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats which degenerates. Renew this fluid at intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition and, as far as we know, the pulsation of life may go on forever."
So, cells do not have to age or become diseased. At least one reason they do is because of the acidic wastes which are trapped in the cells. When cells are properly nourished, bathed and cleansed daily, they're allowed to function properly and they don't become diseased.
We can't take our cells, put them into a perfectly formulated solution and change this solution daily like Dr. Carrel did, but we can drink plenty of alkaline ionized water daily and add Alkalising Salts.
Link to shop: Alkalising Salts
Every biochemical reaction is pH sensitive, with enzymes being especially sensitive. Our diet plays an important role in maintaining appropriate pH levels in the body. This is why energy is increased when you eat an alkaline diet which consists of lots of green vegetables and alkaline fluids. ENZYMES function more efficiently with an alkaline Ph giving you more ENERGY and regeneration capabilities.
Raising pH increases the immune system's ability to kill bacteria, concludes a study conducted at The Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine in London.
Viruses and bacteria that cause bronchitis and colds thrive in an acidic environment.
When you feel yourself coming down with a cold or flu like symptoms, this is when I strongly advise shifting your PH levels towards a higher alkalinity state using the alkalizing salts and a meat, dairy and sugar free diet whilst following a vegan raw food diet.
When we become acidic, we also start losing calcium and magnesium out of the blood and the bones. Minerals are harnessed in a mandatory need to keep the blood pH slightly alkaline. This becomes a losing game, for most people are also deficient in magnesium and other basic buffering minerals.
A combination of four highly alkalising, powerful carbonate mineral salts, Alkalising Salts is incredibly effective at boosting the alkalinity of the body.
The effect of the four powerful bicarbonate mineral salts in Alkalising Salts have been scientifically validated in the American Journal of Nutrition (probably the most respected scientific nutrition journal in the world,) the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (another ‘top ranked’ scientific journal), the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, the Nutrition Journal and many more.
Alkalising Salts: Powerful, Scientifically Proven Alkaline Mineral Salts Immediately Neutralise Even The Most Acidic Body and Instantly Give The Benefits of the Alkaline Diet.
When your body does not have enough alkaline minerals to neutralise the acids you consume, it is catastrophic to your body. This over-acidity leads to a whole host of symptoms including fat gain, muscle loss, fatigue and premature aging.
Alkalising Salts contains only the four proven, strongest and most necessary alkaline mineral salts – designed to work exactly how your body works, to dramatically increase alkalinity.
Dosage for the Alkalising Salts: start off with ½ teaspoon in the morning before breakfast and work up to 1 teaspoon in a glass of alkalized ionized water.
So in summary: when you increase your alkalinity you have more energy and oxygen, which will enhance your metabolism, allowing you to burn more fat for fuel.
Remember: You are only as healthy as the fluids your cells are bathed in. No different to what Dr .Alexis Carrel found during his chicken heart cell experiment which went on for an amazing 28 years!
Link here to Alkalising Salts in shop
Stressed? Need to Focus? Why Amino Acids could be your Answer
I just had a top trainer from a premiership rugby club ask me why amino work capacity is so awesome. The results that I have had personally and the feedback; from elite athletes through to members of the public who just enjoy training, has been truly amazing.
An elite weight lifter who competes in the GB team added 7 kg to his clean & jerk and 10 kg to his back squat. Now this is truly remarkable.
Glenn Ross’ (UK’s Strongest Man) sums it up:
“Amino Work Capacity is the reason old men still become champions."
Let’s take a look at why Amino Work Capacity is one of the very few products on the market which actually gets RESULTS!
Why Amino load before training, using Amino Work Capacity?
The dosage of one scoop of Amino Work Capacity is a phenomenal 15 grams of essential amino acids. This includes very high amounts of branch chain amino acids, 5 grams of Citruline malate and 5 grams of D- Ribose. I normally recommend 2 – 3 scoops 45 minutes before workouts. This is what has given me the biggest RESULTS.
When consumed 30 - 60 minutes before training, the blood stream will become flooded with amino acids. This forces the brain to flip on the anabolic switch associated with improved performance, muscle growth and body fat reduction. Amino Acid supplementation before workouts is proven to result in higher levels of fat loss during training.
The research proves this, but the mechanism is unknown. It appears that Amino Work Capacity enhances the availability of amino acids via enhanced blood flow (from the exercise) during a workout, which prevents, or reduces the body from breaking down muscle tissue, as it normally does during an intense workout. Always take the aminos on an empty stomach this significantly enhances performance.
Amino Work Capacity enhances brain function!
Amino Acids improve the brain’s ability to concentrate. When you flood the system from the high dosages found in Amino Work Capacity, it significantly improves mental concentration and you feel this almost immediately.
Why add citruline malate to Amino Work Capacity?
This unique combination of the amino acid Citrullline and the organic salt Malate offers athletes a new choice in improving performance and recovery. As an intermediate in the Urea Cycle, Citrulline aids in the removal of endotoxins such as lactic acid and ammonia. These endotoxins are produced through intense physical activity, protein metabolism, and catabolic states. Endotoxins damage living cells and wreak havoc on athletic performance.
Research also points to citrulline as possibly a greater alternative to arginine for enhancing plasma arginine2 levels. Citrulline's effects on endogenous arginine synthesis-mean that CM may be a superior alternative to Arginine for regulating Nitric Oxide production, growth hormone release, insulin and creatine production.
The primary role of L-Citrulline in the body is to support the optimization of blood flow to the tissues, which is critical for helping you not only perform your workouts to the best of your abilities, but also to speed up recovery. LCitrulline functions in the body by being converted to L-arginine and then into nitric oxide. This nitric oxide is then involved with vasodilation. This vasodilation is what helps increase the amount of blood and oxygen that is delivered to the working muscles, helping to prevent both mental and physical fatigue.
And that's not all!
It has also been discovered that supplementing CM at a dose as low as 6 grams a day significantly reduces muscle fatigue, increases ATP production by 34%, and causes a 20% increase in phosphocreatine recovery after exercise. What this means is that citrulline malate improves aerobic metabolism, cellular energy production, and promotes muscular recovery.
Ian Critchlow, Olympic Lifter:
"Since I have started to taking Phil’s Amino Work Capacity it has changed the way I have trained completely. I can train longer, harder and don’t feel as tired as I was before taking the product. I felt tired a couple of times before training, as you do. As I have my first 3 scoops off the work capacity, 45 minutes before that all just seems to disappear! I am then really in the mood to train hard and lift big weights. It has put 10 kilos on my front squat & back squat, 10 kilos on my Clean & jerk and 5 kilos on my snatch. There is no doubt in my mind that this product has done me the world off good to my performance it is the REAL DEAL!!!"
Why add D- Ribose to Amino Work Capacity?
Studies have shown that any amount of D-ribose you give to energy-starved cells gives them an energy boost. At the University of Missouri, researcher Ronald Terjung has shown that even very small doses (the equivalent of about 500 mg) of D-ribose increase energy salvage in muscles by more than 100%. Larger doses increase the production of energy compounds by 340 - 430%, depending on the type of muscle tested. It also improves the salvage of energy compounds by up to 650%.
The D-ribose connection to cardiac function was made by the physiologist Heinz-Gerd Zimmer at the University of Munich. In 1973, he reported that energy-starved hearts could recover faster if D-ribose was given prior to, or immediately following, ischemia (oxygen deprivation). Zimmer’s research sparked a flurry of research on humans, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, and even turkeys, all with similar results. D-ribose administration significantly improved energy recovery in ischemic, hypoxic, or cardiomyopathic hearts and skeletal muscle, and it improved functional performance of the tissue.
The most significant findings of the studies underscored the dramatic effect that D-ribose administration played in both energy restoration and the return of normal diastolic cardiac function. A clinical study from Zimmer’s group in Munich in 1992 showed that D-ribose administration to patients with severe, stable coronary artery disease increased exercise tolerance and delayed the onset of moderate angina.
Most amazing is that when muscles are supplemented with D-ribose, they continue to add to their energy stores even while they actively work! Until this study was reported, it was thought that muscle energy stores were only refilled in muscles at rest.
Amino Work Capacity increases brain function, increases work capacity, decreases recovery time, increases energy production whilst you train and buffers lactic acid. Now I realize why so many people are genuinely having phenomenal results with this amazing product.
Ollie Chapman Strength & Conditioning Coach
:"Over the past 8 days I have been using Phil Richards new amino work capacity, when I started using it last Monday I was on an internship with Phil and he put us through some of the most brutal sessions I've ever done!
Normally after the sort of sessions we had been doing, from heavy strength sessions one day to all out sled drags and super yoke walks the next, I'd have some serious DOM's but I could barely even feel a thing the next day!
I have also never felt such intense focus and level of alertness during training on any product, like I have when using the amino work capacity.
My advice to anyone is get your self a tub of this stuff, but of course, that's only if you want to be stronger, increase the intensity of your training and have no soreness the next day! I personally love it."
Phil Richards' Most Important Product Yet!
Metabolic Enzyme Formula: A Most Potent Anti-inflammatory and Digestive Enzyme Product
Buy now from our online shop
Buy now from our online shop
Phil has formulated probably one on the most potent anti inflammatory products on the market, as well as a potent digestive enzyme.
Enzymes are energized protein molecules found in all living cells. They catalyze and regulate all biochemical reactions that occur within the human body. They are also instrumental in digestion.
BETWEEN 60 – 80% OF THE BODY’S ENERGY IS USED TO MOVE FOOD THROUGH THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.
Enzymes break down proteins, fats, carbohydrates and fibre, making it possible to benefit from the nutrients found in those foods while removing the toxins. Enzymes turn the food we eat into energy and unlock this energy for use in the body.
There are three types of enzymes. Our bodies naturally produce two types, digestive and metabolic enzymes, as they are needed, while food enzymes can only be consumed orally.
Metabolic Enzymes speed up the chemical reaction within the cells for detoxification and energy production. They enable us to see, hear, feel, move and think.
Every organ, every tissue, and all 100 trillion cells in our body depend upon the reaction of metabolic enzymes and their energy factor.
Metabolic enzymes are produced by every living cell. However, the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and other organs play a vital role in their production.
Digestive Enzymes are secreted along the digestive tract to break food down into nutrients and waste. This allows nutrients to be absorbed into the bloodstream and the waste to be discarded. Human digestive enzymes include ptyalin, pepsin, trypsin, lipase, protease, and amylase
Food Enzymes are introduced to the body through the raw foods we eat and through consumption of supplemental enzyme fortifiers. Raw foods naturally contain enzymes, providing a source of digestive enzymes when ingested.
However, raw food manifests only enough enzymes to digest that particular food, not enough to have any support systemically.
CAUSES OF ENZYME DEPLETION
• COOKED FOOD
• PESTICIDES & CHEMICALS
• GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS
• BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE
• PASTERURIZATION
• IRRIDATED FOOD
• HYDROGENATED FATS
• COOKING AT HIGH TEMPERATURES
• MICROWAVING
• FLOURIDATED WATER
• HEAVY METALS
• MERCURY FILLINGS
• ROOT CANALS
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Metabolic Enzyme Formula Overview
Unlike digestive enzyme products that simply assist in the breakdown of food, systemic enzymes are used to support the health and maintenance of body tissues. This is the main reason why you should always take Metabolic Enzyme Formula on an empty stomach.
Metabolic Enzyme Formula is used by those recovering from injuries, surgery, and for both chronic and acute musculoskeletal problems like back pain and sore joints. Metabolic Enzyme Formula also offers support for healthy circulation and inflammation control.
Metabolic Enzyme Formula Description
It's a simple fact that systemic enzymes are important to our health. Systemic enzymes are absolutely essential to maintaining a healthy body and an active lifestyle.
Your body uses systemic enzymes to rebalance the inflammatory response and fine-tune repair processes to help you recover from injury and disease. Fortunately, you can replenish your supply with the naturally occurring enzymes in Metabolic Enzyme Formula.
Metabolic Enzyme Formula is recommended for:
Healthy Joints
Improved Mobility
Robust Circulation
Healthy Ageing
Normalized Inflammation
Sports Injury Recuperation
While other products – like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) — offer quick but temporary solutions, Metabolic Enzyme Formula empowers your body to heal itself.
Metabolic Enzyme Complex Capsules
200 capsules
Active Ingredients: Typically per 3 capsules RDA%
Pancreatin 900mg †
56,000 USP-units protease (pancreas)
(Sus scrofa)
Papain 450mg †
492 FIP-unit
(Carica papaya)
Bromelain 300mg †
675 FIP-unit
(Ananus comosus)
Trypsin 45mg †
2,160 FIP-unit (pancreas)
(Sus scrofa)
Chymotrypsin 3mg †
900 FIP-unit (pancreas)
(Bos Taurus)
Rutosid
(Rutin) 381mg †
Curcumin Std extract 300mg †
*Recommended Daily Allowance
†No RDA Established
Ingredients
Pancreatin, Papain, Bromelain, Rutin, Curcumin, Trypsin, Chymotrypsin.
Allergen Information
None
Food Supplement
A supplement containing enzymes.
Metabolic Enzyme Formula Directions
Take two (2) tablets three (3) times daily, at least 45 minutes before meals or as recommended by your health care professional.
Phil Richards Performance has done it again!
Phil has formulated probably one on the most potent anti inflammatory products on the market, as well as a potent digestive enzyme.
Read below the ingredients in Phil Richards Metabolic Enzyme Formula so that you realize what a phenomenal product this truly is.
Pancreatin is a digestive enzyme that is used to supplement loss of or low levels of digestive enzymes, and is often used in people with cystic fibrosis. It has been claimed to help with food allergies, celiac disease, autoimmune disease, cancer, and weight loss. Pancreatin is also known as pancreatic acid. Pancreatin is made up of the pancreatic enzymes trypsin, amylase, and lipase.
Papain has been used for years by those who endorse natural healing methods. Many European countries use the papaya between courses of gourmet meals to cleanse the palate and to help the digestion of heavy meals. The enzyme papain has been extracted and has proven beneficial in the digestion of proteins. Proteins are much harder to digest than any other food by the body. Papain has been used for many years by holistic healers as an aid to digestion. It has also been used to help with problems such as indigestion, acid reflux, heartburn, and irritable bowel syndrome.
Papain was also found to be very beneficial in its anti inflammatory properties. Studies have shown that this enzyme was beneficial in reducing the inflammation in certain diseases such as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid athritis. These enzymes are able to reduce the severity and the nature of these diseases. Respiratory diseases that are caused due to inflammation of the bronchial tubes such as asthma have been helped by using this enzyme. Papain has been used to help certain skin conditions and has been helpful in the healing of certain skin problems.
Bromelain is a mixture of enzymes found naturally in the juice and stems of pineapples. Called a proteolytic enzyme, bromelain is believed to help with the digestion of protein. Some bromelain appears to be absorbed by the body intact, so it's also thought to have effects outside the digestive tract. In fact, bromelain is often marketed as a natural anti-inflammatory for conditions such as arthritis. It's one of the most popular supplements in Germany, where it is approved by the Commission E for the treatment of inflammation and swelling of the nose and sinuses due to surgery or injury.
Trypsin and Chymotrypsin - Having read through the research papers published by Dr Ernst Krebs, Dr Dean Burk of the USA, Dr Hans Nieper of Germany, Dr Ernesto Contreras of Mexico, Dr Manuel Navarro of the Philippines, Dr Shigeaki Sakai of Japan and others, Dr Binzel reports that these researchers found that cancer cells are coated with a protein lining, and that it was this protein lining (or covering) that prevented the body’s normal defences from getting to the cancer cell.
They found that if you could dissolve the protein lining from around the cancer cell, the body’s normal defences, the leukocytes (white blood cells) would destroy the cancer cell. They found that the dissolving of the protein coating from around the cancer cell was done very nicely within the body by two enzymes: trypsin and chymotrypsin. These enzymes are secreted by the pancreas. Thus, they said the enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin formed the body’s first line of defence against cancer.
Rutoside, which is more commonly known as Rutin but also called quercetin-3-rutinoside and sophorin, is a bioflavonoid obtained from buckwheat, flower buds of the pagoda tree and the leaves of several species of the Eucalyptus. Rutin is actually a form of Quercetin. Quercetin, one of the most common and abundant flavonoids, occurs bound to sugars in the form known as Rutin or Rutoside. Rutin is generally found in apples, onions, and tea among others. This ingredient is said to strengthen capillaries, as well as lower "bad" cholesterol and reduce the incidence of heart disease in humans.
Curcumin, also known as diferuloylmethane, is a photochemical found in the spice turmeric. It is a powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, and may help prevent the development of a variety of conditions related to oxidative and free-radical damage, including cataracts, heart disease, and cancer.
Laboratory studies have shown that curcumin inhibits the production of lipoxygenase and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), two enzymes that are involved in promoting and maintaining inflammation in the body. By reducing the effects of these enzymes, curcumin may help relieve inflammation symptoms of arthritis sufferers. Indian researchers found that turmeric (the spice in which curcumin naturally occurs) was as effective as prescription nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) when used to treat joint pain and swelling in people with arthritis, without side effects such as abdominal bleeding or stomach upset commonly associated with prolonged use of NSAIDs.
Curcumin is currently being studied for its possible use in preventing or slowing the progression Alzheimer’s disease. (It has been theorized that Alzheimer’s may be caused, at least in part, by inflammation in the brain.)
Curcumin helps prevent the DNA mutations that can lead to cancer. In one study, smokers that took just 1 teaspoon of turmeric each day for 30 days had lower levels of cancer-causing mutagens in their urine. Researchers at the University of Chicago found that curcumin also inhibits the growth of H. pylori, a bacteria believed to cause stomach and colon cancer.
Curcumin keeps the heart healthy by preventing a plaque build-up in the arteries, which can lead to atherosclerosis. In one study, participants taking just 500 milligrams of curcumin each day significantly reduced their cholesterol levels in as little as 10 days. Preliminary research indicates that curcumin may also help lower blood pressure and prevent blood clots.
A natural detoxifier, curcumin helps protect the liver from the damaging effects of alcohol, toxic chemicals, and even some pharmaceutical drugs. It also stimulates the production of bile, which is needed to digest fat, and kills salmonella bacteria and protozoa that can cause diaorrhea. Commission E, a group of experts that evaluates the safety and efficacy of herbs for the German government, approves the use of turmeric for indigestion.
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A Person With An IQ Above Room Temperature: An Interview With Phil Richards: Elite FTS
By Mark Harmon. Published February 19th 2010
There are many self-proclaimed “experts” today who quote research on how to get lean, build muscle mass, and other physique enhancing programs. But what about athletes? Anyone with an IQ above room temperature should know that an athlete cannot perform at their peak on a ketogenic diet, carbohydrate rotations and the various other programs out there. After years of research, I was introduced to Phil Richards, a renowned strength and conditioning coach, who is quickly becoming one of the most recognized minds in sports nutrition today. Phil’s uncompromising approach intrigued me, particularly because most of the people I was studying with at the time talked non-stop about the dangers of overtraining, cortisol levels, the things that literally scare people out of training today. While most “experts” brag about results without any evidence, Phil has worked with a wide range of professional athletes and teams ranging from the world’s wealthiest sports organization to Olympic medalists. I can assure you, Phil has a message and you should listen!
PR: My background is really interesting. I joined the British Army at the age of 16. Very quickly, I become a PT instructor in an infantry regiment. I left at the age of 21 and by 23 owned a very large gym (about 40,000 square feet) and trained mainly rugby players. Where I come from (Wales), the national sport is rugby! I then sold the gym after two years so that I could concentrate on studying clinical, medical and sports nutrition. This became a real passion. I had learned very early on in my career that health is always the deciding factor in performance.
After several years of study, I became one of the first professional rugby full-time strength and conditioning coaches in the UK. This really was a dream job for me because I have a passion for the sport. I worked for 10 years in professional rugby and won multiple league and cup titles with the teams for whom I worked and consulted. I moved on to train and consult for athletes from 10 different sports. These included: strongmen, runners, swimmers, cage fighters, soccer players, boxers and others.
MH: What influenced you to take up the career you have?
PR: I used to cycle competitively as a kid and was always fascinated with improving my performance. I would spend hours planning my weekly schedule so that I would peak for races. I spent a lot of time studying the latest nutritional strategies so that I didn’t fatigue during races.
MH: What type of athletes/competitors do you work with?
PR: At the moment, I’m mainly consulting for professional boxers and rugby players. I’ve recently relocated back home to Wales to set up a nutritional clinic. Currently, that’s taking up most of my time.
MH: If you could sum up your nutritional philosophy with a couple of sentences, what would they be?
PR: The further you move away from nature, the closer you move toward disease.
It really is that simple. Today, if you want world-class results, you must have a world class detoxification program in place. On the toxic front, we get hit from all angles. I see that so many things surrounding us today, from amalgam fillings in our mouths, parabens in our shampoos through to the non-stick frying pans we use for cooking, are causing our health and perfomance to decline quite significantly.
MH: Do many athletes come to see you for advice with anabolics?
PR: None. I genuinely have no interest in anabolics. My whole life has been dedicated to creating healthy people. Anabolics don’t come into the books I read or the way of life I prescribe.
MH: Having said that, are you a believer that you can manipulate your hormones to create the effect of anabolics – The Anabolic Diet by Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale, for example?
PR: The problem with this diet is from Monday – Friday, you’re eating high protein, which yields high acidic load and then weekend high carbohydrates yielding a high acidic load. Now, when I analyze the bloods of people on this type of diet, it looks like liquid sludge. That’s how they feel – totally wiped out. There are more effective ways in my opinion to build the optimum physique while also getting brutally strong. How do I know? I’ve done it with one of the world’s strongest men and countless professional athletes from rugby to cage fighters.
MH: Where do most athletes go wrong with regard to nutrition?
PR: Most don’t drink enough clean water. Everyone thinks only about food. When it comes to nutrition, you must get your priorities right. I helped to develop a water machine, which alkalizes and oxygenates the water. The machine is now installed in a number of cancer hospitals in the UK and is also starting to make it into the sporting world.
MH: If you could think of a couple of things out there in the world of nutrition that are overblown, what would they be?
PR: High protein diets from animal and dairy are a disaster to the human organism. Animal protein in excess creates the environment in which cancer thrives: high acidity and low oxygen levels. One of the first things I now do with my athletes is reduce animal and dairy protein in their diets. Ten times out of ten, performance improves significantly.
EFS: So possibly a more vegetarian-based template is in order for athletes? The key here is balance. We’ve got this misconceived idea that you can only get protein from animal/dairy sources and if you get protein from a vegetable source, then you need to question your sexuality as this simply isn’t macho enough for the big bad world of strength training.
PR: Spirulina, for example, is exceptionally high in absorbable protein and vitamin B12 and is truly a super food. Another example is the combination of rice and pea protein, it’s exceptionally high in amino acids and it’s what I use in my post workout shake.
MH: Typical Sports Nutritionists stress the importance of sugary sports drinks and the loading of high carbohydrate meals before training. Do you agree?
PR: Yes, if you want them to lose. Unfortunately for the university-educated dietician who gets involved with professional sports, it’s often a disaster – which I have seen countless times. I recently had a call from a colleague who’s a strength coach for a Gaelic football team in Ireland. My colleague told me how the team’s nutritionist loads the players for three days before games with carbs – from jelly beans to soft drinks. That’s nutritional insanity! I manipulate brain chemistry through the use of various nootropics and amino acids, which we can talk more about later, as it’s so important.
Phil trains Amir Khan, who is regarded as one of the world’s most feared boxers in the light welterweight division of the World Boxing Association and the Olympic Games. He earned the silver medal in 2004.
MH: Do you have any BASIC ideas for someone with no background in nutrition?
PR: Study sick people and do the exact opposite.
MH: Supplements can be confusing to most competitors out there. How important are supplements in today’s world?
PR: The right supplements are paramount for human health. My top five are: apricot kernals, Spirulina, transdermal magnesium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and vitamin D. A bit different to all the other crap being peddled out there! Always remember if you want performance, you must have health. That’s why my whole philosophy is about building health, then strength. Performance is then a natural progression.
MH: What is your position on probiotics and do they have an effect on athletic performance?
PR: Yes and I’m very fortunate to have a very good friend who is one of the world’s leading experts in this field to really educate me on probiotics. He also manufactures my range of probiotics. He recently advised me that the more meat you eat, the more vigilant you need to get good bacteria into the bowels. Especially as excess meat can putrefy and create many health problems.
MH: How can someone get in touch with you or follow your work? (Website, etc)
PR: If anyone wants to get in touch they can visit my website www.enhancinglifesjourney.co.uk
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