Tag: exercise
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Maintaining High Vitamin D Levels with Regular Physical Exercise
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that has the unique property of being able to be produced by the body from sunlight and does not depend solely on its intake through diet. Approximately 75% of the world’s population has vitamin D levels below the normal limit of 30 ng/ml in the blood. 30 ng/ml in…
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Advanced Hydration in Older Adults
Hydration is important throughout our lives. Aging alters our ability to regulate and retain water in our bodies. As we age, our total body water decreases, our thirst decreases, resulting in less desire to hydrate. Due to inadequate hydration, water and nutrient absorption is altered, and our ability to regulate water and sodium levels in…
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3 Basic Factors That Determine Our Body Weight
Our body weight, our ideal weight and our body composition in general are determined by the following factors: Genetic factors The heredity that we transfer from our parents and ancestors, the DNA, has an important role in regulating our weight. The 3 basic categories of body types have a purely hereditary background. The ectomorphic type…
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The Truth About Cholesterol
Cholesterol is an Essential Component Cholesterol is essential for the body because it is a key component of the complex lipoprotein molecules that form cell membranes, a precursor to steroid hormones, vitamin D and bile acids, which aid in the digestion process and absorb dietary fat. Cholesterol and Lipoproteins Cholesterol is found bound to complex…
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10 tips for a Healthier Diet
A healthy diet provides all the nutrients in the amounts our body needs to stay healthy and feel well. Many times it is not easy to follow a specific nutritional program that is personally made for us. During this period, we can follow 10 tips to eat as healthily as possible. 1. We consume as…
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Foods for a faster metabolism
Metabolism is the chemical process that converts food and drinks into energy, it also helps in building and repairing body tissues. The higher the metabolism, the more calories are converted into energy, the easier it is to lose weight or maintain our weight. To increase our metabolism, the easiest thing we can do is to…
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B-Alanine
B-alanine is a non-essential amino acid. It can be synthesized by the body but is also found in foods. Taking a b-alanine supplement increases carnosine levels in muscle cells (preventing the decrease in pH in them) improving exercise efficiency, muscle stimulation and contraction by delaying the production of lactic acid and consequently muscle fatigue. The…
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Nitrates
Nitrates improve exercise endurance by enhancing “running economy.” They increase plasma nitrate concentrations to increase nitric oxide, which has a variety of vascular and metabolic effects that reduce oxygen cost during exercise. This means that athletes can achieve better performance with the same amount of oxygen they consume or maintain the same level of performance…
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Glutamine
Glutamine is an amino acid (building block of proteins) that is widely used in sports nutrition, mainly due to its immunomodulatory role. Glutamine is involved in cell proliferation, energy production through gluconeogenesis (energy production from proteins rather than carbohydrates), maintenance of acid-base balance, body temperature and heart rate. Our bodies produce enough glutamine for our…
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