Beat Cramps With ENDURE

 

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When it comes to maximizing your performance during intense physical activity, energy, stamina and endurance are crucial. Your ability to effectively re-hydrate and replace your body with lost electrolytes is essential to performing at your best. If you don’t, fatigue, dehydration and—worst of all— cramping will set in, causing decreased energy and stamina.

Whether we call them cramps, stitches, or just a pain in the butt, muscle contractions can strike without warning, putting a serious damper on any workout or practice. But what’s to blame for these uncomfortable muscle troubles?

It seems no one’s completely safe from muscle cramps, which commonly attack the calf muscles, hamstrings, quadriceps, arms, and abs. In a perfect world, muscle fibers shorten and lengthen back up when they contract; a cramp occurs when the muscle fibers stay shortened, causing tension and that familiar pain.

Muscle spasms can also happen off the court, creeping in when we least expect it. Cramps can occur up to six hours after exercise so we may not be safe even after hitting the showers. And don’t rule out the notorious charley horse, which often attacks the leg muscles in the middle of the night.

When it comes to cramping, scientists aren’t 100% sure of the causes, but a loss of electrolytes and dehydration is the most common hypothesis, so it’s important to hydrate effectively and replenish lost minerals after intense physical activity. Our favorite electrolyte product is ENDURE from Trace Minerals Research. It contains Utah Sea Minerals and a plethora of other naturally occurring trace minerals to help replenish your body’s stores of potassium, sodium and magnesium—an essential electrolyte that naturally relaxes muscles to prevent cramping.

Staying hydrated during intense physical activity is a battle in itself because drinking too much water or sweet sports drinks can cause bloating or stomach aches. ENDURE can be added to plain water as an electrolyte booster with no carbs, sugars or calories for effective and efficient hydration that leads to enhanced performance.

 

 

Essential New Line From Trace Minerals

Trace minerals are an oft-overlooked key to a major part of some of our health puzzles. Mother nature provides important trace minerals in the soils used to grow the plants that humans eat, which we then synthesize and utilize.

As well as providing the foundational building blocks of bone and tissue, minerals also power the energy systems and enzyme systems of the body.

Perhaps the best summary concerning the lack of trace minerals in our soils is by Dr. William A. Albrecht, Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri, who said:

“A declining soil fertility, due to a lack of organic material, major elements, and trace minerals, is responsible for poor crops and in turn for pathological conditions in animals fed deficient foods from such soils, and that mankind is no exception.”

I encourage you to check out www.remineralize.org to learn more, or get involved in the long-term solution.

Until American soils are re-mineralized, Horizon Health Shop is proud to announce our partnership with Trace Minerals Research products, the #1 choice for mineral replacement today. You can trust Trace Mineral Research for high-quality re-mineralization and electrolyte-replacement products due to metabolic needs, or perspiration from work, sports and the effects of summer heat.

Here are a few more quotes that expose the extent and depth of this problem:

In 1977, Dr. Walter Mertz of the U.S. Department of Agriculture told Congress, “In the future, we will not be able to rely anymore on our premise that the consumption of a varied balanced diet will provide all the essential trace elements, because such a diet will be very difficult to obtain for millions of people.”

Dr. Linus Pauling the two-time Nobel Prize winner states that: “You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.”

The Doctor’s Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia states that, “Mineral insufficiency and trace elements insufficiency are more likely to occur than are vitamin insufficiency states. Because of differing geologic conditions, minerals and trace elements may be scarce in the soils of certain regions and rich in those of other regions. Thus, you can live in some areas, eat a perfectly ‘balanced’ diet and still develop mineral deficiencies or trace element deficiencies that can only be averted through dietary change or supplementation.”

Dr. Charles Northen, MD, reports that, “In the absence of minerals, vitamins have no function. Lacking vitamins, the system can make use of the minerals, but lacking minerals vitamins are useless.”

Gaylord Hauser, from his book, Diet Does It, concurs by stating, “Minerals are certainly as important to us as vitamins, yet minerals are overlooked, neglected and their value underestimated.”

Suffice it to say that many of the “organic foods available today are still depleted in minerals.

If your patients are fatigued and unhealthy in general, mineral or essential electrolyte deficiency could be a big cause more so than vitamin deficiency.

Trace Mineral Research offers a large variety of mineral products for general support with its flagship Concentrace™, a blend of 72 trace elements that can be added to drinks; Power Pak, great-tasting rehydration powders in 9 flavors; and a complete line of ActivJoint formulas.