Nutrition
Educated physical trainers will pinpoint nutritional intake as being far more crucial than the exercise itself, which merely acts as a stimulus for exercise specific adaptation. Nutrition determines your vitality and thus the body's ability to response to exercise stimulus.
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
Gandhi
Supplementation
- Dietary Supplementation
- Dietary supplementation may be required in order to encourage recovery, or where food sources of of poor quality, but should not be used as a substitute. Avoid synthetic ingredients and use the more expensive cold processed ingredients. The only ways of discover deficiencies early enough to prevent diseases are month long food exclusions or laboratory testing.
- Supplementation Testing Links
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- General Supplementation
- Multi vitamins & minerals.
- Antioxidants.
- During times of stress - Vitamin B &/or C.
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- Metabolic Profiling for Individualized Supplementation
- Allergies & food sensitivity (particularly - soy, gluten, dairy, corn, nuts and shellfish).
- Fatty acids - Omega 3, 6 & GLA.
- Organic acids in urine - vitamins, burnt fats/sugar, oxidation stress, gut bacteria, neuro transmitter balance, detoxification ability.
- Amino acid bloodspot testing - useful for muscle building and anti-ageing.
- Stress hormone profiles - cortisol, adrenal rhythyms, thyroid.
- Carnatine - neededed to burn fat.
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- The Sun, Fish and vitamin D
- A deficit in Vitamin D3 is begining to be linked to a large array of physiological dysfunction.
- Vitamin D and Prevention of Chronic Diseases.
- Daily UVB exposure from the sun (30 minutes), between the hours of 10h00-15h00, is important particuarily when Vitamin D3 is not being obtained from fish.
- Related video.
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SADA).
- Mercola » Vitamin D Lecture.
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