Gout, Inflammation and terrible sleep patterns? Remedy with TART CHERRY JUICE, its for Athletes too! Healthy joints aided by tart cherry juice As we age, our ligaments, cartilages and muscles lose their elastic properties. I often quote my friend who was a professional baseball player for 13 years, “You’re only as strong as you are flexible.” Most injuries occur in the connective tissue, so healthy and flexible joints is a must. Tart cherry juice delivers nutrients our joints need to stay lubricated and smooth. They also flush out the uric acid which makes them stiff and painful. Tart cherries contain two powerful compounds, anthocyanins and biolflavonoids. Both of these compounds slow down the enzymes Cyclo-oxygenase-1 and -2, which helps relieve and prevent arthritis and gout. Tart cherry juice is very high in antioxidants (slows aging) Oxidative stress is death to muscles. The accumulated oxidative damage in your muscle leads to 3 detrimental changes: Loss of mitochondria. Mitochondria is the energy chamber of your cell. The consequences include a lower threshold for exercise and accelerated aging. Loss of fast muscle nerves. Your muscle becomes like an engine without the ignition. It means a loss of capacity for intense physical exercise. Loss of fast muscle fibers. Fast muscle fibers generate 3x more energy than slow fibers. They are key to keeping your physique strong and metabolic rate intact. The deterioration of fast muscle fibers causes our muscles to waste. Tart cherry juice is a rich source of antioxidents. In fact, tart cherry juice has the highest ORAC antioxidant level of tested fruits and vegetables. Tart cherry juice contains melatonin to help improve sleep Dr. Mercola calls melatonin the “Superhero of the night”. Melatonin helps us get to sleep faster and stay asleep. It balances our body’s natural circadian rhythms so that our sleep is more restful. This is important because our body heals at night. We literally get stronger as we sleep. The ability to recover is one of the most neglected aspects of training. Good quality sleep is so critical to health and often undervalued as a foundational necessity for everything else biological. Can you imagine how much all other health and fitness challenges would improve or even completely resolve if a shot of tart cherry juice each evening just improved sleep alone? Tart cherry juice reduces inflammation There is a known relationship between inflammation and muscle growth. Acute inflammation after exercise allows for repair and we make strength gains. However, the inflammatory response must be actively terminated when no longer needed, in order to prevent unnecessary “bystander” damage to tissues. Chronic low-grade inflammation on the other hand has the opposite affect on the body. It is catabolic, meaning it causes our muscles to atrophy. Tart cherry juice contains anthocyanin, which helps stave off inflammation. -Healthy Home Economist I HAVE A $50 GIFT CARD FOR YOU TO TRY OURS! ;-]
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:49:44 +0000