Premium Superfoods Green and Reds Blend<\/h3>\r\n
From a very early age, we all learned about the importance of eating your fruits and vegetables. For some reason, whether it is a taste issue or lack of convenience, in this day and age many people are lacking these precious foods in their diets. With Core GREENS you no longer need to miss out.<\/p>\r\n
With its comprehensive \"greens\" (and \"reds\") superfood formula, added probiotic and digestive enzyme blends, and delicious taste, Core GREENS is a convenient and systematic general health and wellness supplement. Providing critical micronutrients and antioxidants that your body needs in a single delicious scoop, Core GREENS was formulated for maximum health benefits.Key ingredients in Core GREENS have been shown to improve a wide range of crucial health measures.<\/p>\r\n
Maintaining optimal health has never been more difficult. Demanding work schedules leave little time for preparing a diet full of the micronutrient-dense foods our bodies require, leaving us scrambling for patchwork solutions. Though we can supplement our diet with a range of solutions, most are too narrow in focus, cause bloating and gas due to lacking digestive enzymes, or are cost prohibitive. Core GREENS attempts to break that mold, providing a whole-food solution to ensure that you can meet your recommended daily intake of not only valuable vitamins and minerals – but also optimize your diet with probiotics, digestive enzymes, and potent anti-oxidants.<\/p>\r\n
The heart of our GREENS formula is our plant blend, constituted by: Psyllium husk, TruServ® (organc kale, broccoli, and spinach), barley grass, wheat grass, chlorella, spirulina and Spectra™. Our 11+ gram scoop provides the function equivalent of several pounds of these greens. Additionally, one scoop serving delivers you 100% of the daily value of 13 vitamins and a range of antioxidants and bioactives. To complement the greens themselves, we have added TruServ® and Spectra™ two industry-leading plant and vegetable\/fruit blends. And lastly, to ensure that GREENS does not cause the bloating and gas associated with many greens products, we have included not only probiotics, but a full-spectrum digestive enzyme blend. Were that not enough, the product tastes fantastic!<\/p>\r\n
Now more than ever, your optimal health is too important to leave to chance. Core GREENS is the most convenient and easiest way to deliver to your body the vitamins, minerals, bioactives and antioxidants it requires to function optimally.<\/p>\r\n
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<\/SPAN> <\/P> From a very early age, we all learned about the importance of eating your fruits and vegetables. For some reason, whether it is a taste issue or lack of convenience, in this day and age many people are lacking these precious foods in their diets. With Core GREENS you no longer need to miss out.<\/p>\r\n With its comprehensive \"greens\" (and \"reds\") superfood formula, added probiotic and digestive enzyme blends, and delicious taste, Core GREENS is a convenient and systematic general health and wellness supplement. Providing critical micronutrients and antioxidants that your body needs in a single delicious scoop, Core GREENS was formulated for maximum health benefits.Key ingredients in Core GREENS have been shown to improve a wide range of crucial health measures.<\/p>\r\n Maintaining optimal health has never been more difficult. Demanding work schedules leave little time for preparing a diet full of the micronutrient-dense foods our bodies require, leaving us scrambling for patchwork solutions. Though we can supplement our diet with a range of solutions, most are too narrow in focus, cause bloating and gas due to lacking digestive enzymes, or are cost prohibitive. Core GREENS attempts to break that mold, providing a whole-food solution to ensure that you can meet your recommended daily intake of not only valuable vitamins and minerals – but also optimize your diet with probiotics, digestive enzymes, and potent anti-oxidants.<\/p>\r\n The heart of our GREENS formula is our plant blend, constituted by: Psyllium husk, TruServ® (organc kale, broccoli, and spinach), barley grass, wheat grass, chlorella, spirulina and Spectra™. Our 11+ gram scoop provides the function equivalent of several pounds of these greens. Additionally, one scoop serving delivers you 100% of the daily value of 13 vitamins and a range of antioxidants and bioactives. To complement the greens themselves, we have added TruServ® and Spectra™ two industry-leading plant and vegetable\/fruit blends. And lastly, to ensure that GREENS does not cause the bloating and gas associated with many greens products, we have included not only probiotics, but a full-spectrum digestive enzyme blend. Were that not enough, the product tastes fantastic!<\/p>\r\n Now more than ever, your optimal health is too important to leave to chance. Core GREENS is the most convenient and easiest way to deliver to your body the vitamins, minerals, bioactives and antioxidants it requires to function optimally.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n<\/div> <\/SPAN> <\/P> From a very early age, we all learned about the importance of eating your fruits and vegetables. For some reason, whether it is a taste issue or lack of convenience, in this day and age many people are lacking these precious foods in their diets. With Core GREENS you no longer need to miss out.<\/p>\r\n With its comprehensive \"greens\" (and \"reds\") superfood formula, added probiotic and digestive enzyme blends, and delicious taste, Core GREENS is a convenient and systematic general health and wellness supplement. Providing critical micronutrients and antioxidants that your body needs in a single delicious scoop, Core GREENS was formulated for maximum health benefits.Key ingredients in Core GREENS have been shown to improve a wide range of crucial health measures.<\/p>\r\n Maintaining optimal health has never been more difficult. Demanding work schedules leave little time for preparing a diet full of the micronutrient-dense foods our bodies require, leaving us scrambling for patchwork solutions. Though we can supplement our diet with a range of solutions, most are too narrow in focus, cause bloating and gas due to lacking digestive enzymes, or are cost prohibitive. Core GREENS attempts to break that mold, providing a whole-food solution to ensure that you can meet your recommended daily intake of not only valuable vitamins and minerals – but also optimize your diet with probiotics, digestive enzymes, and potent anti-oxidants.<\/p>\r\n The heart of our GREENS formula is our plant blend, constituted by: Psyllium husk, TruServ® (organc kale, broccoli, and spinach), barley grass, wheat grass, chlorella, spirulina and Spectra™. Our 11+ gram scoop provides the function equivalent of several pounds of these greens. Additionally, one scoop serving delivers you 100% of the daily value of 13 vitamins and a range of antioxidants and bioactives. To complement the greens themselves, we have added TruServ® and Spectra™ two industry-leading plant and vegetable\/fruit blends. And lastly, to ensure that GREENS does not cause the bloating and gas associated with many greens products, we have included not only probiotics, but a full-spectrum digestive enzyme blend. Were that not enough, the product tastes fantastic!<\/p>\r\n Now more than ever, your optimal health is too important to leave to chance. Core GREENS is the most convenient and easiest way to deliver to your body the vitamins, minerals, bioactives and antioxidants it requires to function optimally.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n<\/div> <\/SPAN> <\/P> From a very early age, we all learned about the importance of eating your fruits and vegetables. For some reason, whether it is a taste issue or lack of convenience, in this day and age many people are lacking these precious foods in their diets. With Core GREENS you no longer need to miss out.<\/p>\r\n With its comprehensive \"greens\" (and \"reds\") superfood formula, added probiotic and digestive enzyme blends, and delicious taste, Core GREENS is a convenient and systematic general health and wellness supplement. Providing critical micronutrients and antioxidants that your body needs in a single delicious scoop, Core GREENS was formulated for maximum health benefits.Key ingredients in Core GREENS have been shown to improve a wide range of crucial health measures.<\/p>\r\n Maintaining optimal health has never been more difficult. Demanding work schedules leave little time for preparing a diet full of the micronutrient-dense foods our bodies require, leaving us scrambling for patchwork solutions. Though we can supplement our diet with a range of solutions, most are too narrow in focus, cause bloating and gas due to lacking digestive enzymes, or are cost prohibitive. Core GREENS attempts to break that mold, providing a whole-food solution to ensure that you can meet your recommended daily intake of not only valuable vitamins and minerals – but also optimize your diet with probiotics, digestive enzymes, and potent anti-oxidants.<\/p>\r\n The heart of our GREENS formula is our plant blend, constituted by: Psyllium husk, TruServ® (organc kale, broccoli, and spinach), barley grass, wheat grass, chlorella, spirulina and Spectra™. Our 11+ gram scoop provides the function equivalent of several pounds of these greens. Additionally, one scoop serving delivers you 100% of the daily value of 13 vitamins and a range of antioxidants and bioactives. To complement the greens themselves, we have added TruServ® and Spectra™ two industry-leading plant and vegetable\/fruit blends. And lastly, to ensure that GREENS does not cause the bloating and gas associated with many greens products, we have included not only probiotics, but a full-spectrum digestive enzyme blend. Were that not enough, the product tastes fantastic!<\/p>\r\n Now more than ever, your optimal health is too important to leave to chance. Core GREENS is the most convenient and easiest way to deliver to your body the vitamins, minerals, bioactives and antioxidants it requires to function optimally.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n<\/div> <\/SPAN> <\/P> Core GROW is a gaining solution that factors in the reality that people taking it still live a life, still have a diet, and need a gainer that occupies a beneficial place in them. Complete proteins, healthy fat, and whole food based carbs, all in a single scoop.<\/P> When you hear someone say \"This is the best gainer on the market,\u201d what qualities do you think of? High in complete proteins, great carb source, healthy fats? Seems simple enough. Yet, how many gainers really qualify for that definition?<\/P> Core GROW does and is hands down, flat-out, the most complete, soundest gainer on the market with the highest quality ingredients. There\u2019s no flashy \"new carb\u201d technologies in GROW \u2013 there\u2019s only a whole food-based carb blend derived from the foods you are already eating. Quick: name a fitness staple for carbs. You answered oats, and so did we. That\u2019s why oatmeal flour is the cornerstone of our carbohydrate blend \u2013 along with nutritionally dense sweet potato and quinoa flours.<\/P> Complete proteins? How about cold-processed, undenatured whey protein concentrate? But we doubled it. Not only is our protein a complete protein, but some of our carbs are too \u2013 quinoa is among a handful of plants that provide a complete amino acid profile.<\/P> Healthy fats? How about coconut oil powder, avocado powder and MCT oil powder? Rich, nutrient dense fats derived from real foods.<\/P> And of course, to help you digest this meal in a scoop, we\u2019ve included an industry-best enzyme blend. Not to mention that nearly every ingredient in our formulation has a vitamin, mineral, and micronutrient profile that would make a dietician blush with envy.<\/P> Growing and gains should fit into your life, not pose a problem to it. Core GROW is a gaining solution that factors in the reality that people taking it still live a life, still have a diet, and need a gainer that occupies a beneficial place in them. We said above that this is the best gainer on the market, and we meant it. Now you simply need to grab some GROW and see for yourself.<\/P> Physiological Properties and Effects:<\/P> BRO-Carb Blend:<\/P> The carbohydrate blend in Core GROW is composed of four sources: barley flour, oatmeal flour, sweet potato flour, and quinoa flour. As individual plants and food products, a very large and robust amount of literature exists to support the roles of oats, sweet potato, and quinoa in achieving and maintaining a healthy life.<\/P> Oats (Avena sativa) have been cultivated and used for either human sustenance or animal feed for at least 2,000 years. Oats \u2013 along with other cereals \u2013 have been regarded as an important source of nutrition or a dietary staple on a global scale during most of that period. Recent research into the plant has established the scientific consensus that oats are a \"health food\u201d for a myriad of reasons.<\/P> The United States Food and Drug Administration, for example, ruled that consuming a 3g serving of oat fiber daily had been shown to reduce both total and LDL cholesterol in 1997. In the nearly twenty years since that ruling, significant scientific consensus has emerged that oat fiber, consumed in at least 3g per day, play a role in the regulation of lipoprotein levels.<\/P> Studies on other oat benefits have demonstrated similar results. Studies conducted since 1992 have demonstrated the regular consumption of oats is positively associated with the regulation of satiety through appetite-controlling hormones, maintaining a healthy blood pressure, and assisting in the healthy production and regulation of glucose.<\/P> Research on barley has shown similar effects. For example, in a study with 25 hypercholesterolemic patients (a mixture of women and men), adding barley to a diet specifically-tailored to reduce cholesterol demonstrated ever further reduced LDL and helped to balance the LDL:HDL ratio.<\/P> The other carbohydrate sources in Core GROW, sweet potato and quinoa, also have growing bodies of data to support their role as \"health foods.\u201d<\/P> Quinoa is naturally gluten-free, contains all the essential amino acids needed for bodily function, has more than double the fiber mg-for-mg as most grains, and has been shown in clinical trials to assist in the healthy management of triglycerides, LDL, and glucose. These benefits are in addition to quinoa\u2019s well-established micro-nutrient, vitamin, and mineral profile: the plant contains high levels of bioactive flavonoids, antioxidants, in addition to high levels of iron, magnesium, and vitamin B-2.<\/P> Sweet potato, like quinoa, is also gluten-free. The plant contains more than 100% of the daily-recommended value of vitamin A, and is also high in vitamins B5 and B6, niacin and riboflavin. Sweet potato is also a rich source of antioxidants.<\/P> In total, the carbohydrates found in the BRO-Carb blend are useful for not only their caloric value, but maybe more importantly, their roles as well-established \"health foods.\u201d<\/P> Cold-Processed Undenatured Whey Protein Concentrate<\/P> When you vigorously train or exert yourself, a process called protein degradation (the breakdown of muscle protein) begins so that the body can fuel itself, and a process called muscle protein synthesis (the creation of muscle protein) slows down. Think of this like shutting off your engine (protein synthesis), in order to fuel your car (muscle protein breakdown). As this entire process plays out, the available pool of amino acids in skeletal muscle depletes, as they too are drawn in and broken down in the natural, catabolic process during exercise.<\/P> While this situation is quite adequate during a training session, it\u2019s precisely the opposite of what we want afterwards. At that point, we want the available pool of amino acids to increase, protein degradation to slow or stop, and muscle protein synthesis to increase. Enter protein supplements. Protein powders are a quick, convenient way to rapidly increase the available pool of amino acids in skeletal muscle.<\/P> However, not all proteins are created equal when assessed within the matrix of molecular triggers, enzymes, and amino acids that constitute skeletal muscle protein synthesis. Low quality blends, fillers, masking agents, and the like reduce the net protein content of many protein products, ultimately reducing lean muscle impact.<\/P> A quality protein supplement not only contains a high amount of protein, but the protein sources from which it draws need to be themselves high quality \u2013 and the benefit a particular protein source has can be assessed by analyzing its amino acid profile. Human skeletal muscle makes the most use out of a few, particular amino acids (the BCAAs among them), and so a quality protein needs to have an amino acid profile that is optimal for this context.<\/P> We chose the protein blend for Core GROW with optimization in mind. Our cold-processed undenatured whey protein concentrate has a robust and complete amino acid profile that has been shown in research to increase nitrogen retention, lean muscle impact, and satiating ability (the feeling of fullness).<\/P> PHAT Blend:<\/P> Like our BRO-Carb Blend, our PHAT Blend is whole-food derived in order to deliver fats that not only provides calories, but are additionally healthy on a more substantive level. We deliver this through the use of coconut oil powder and avocado powder as the primary ingredients, with the addition of MCT oil powder.<\/P> Coconut oil is incredibly high in a specific form of saturated fatty acids known as medium-chain triglycerides, or MCTs \u2013 the oil from which is the final ingredient in our fat blend. While saturated fatty acids were typically demonized in both the scientific and popular literature, recent research has revealed this characterization as false. Saturated acids, and particularly MCTs, have been demonstrated as conferring various metabolic benefits when eaten in substantial enough servings.<\/P> Medium chain triglycerides are a form of fat with 6-12 carbon fatty acid esters, a chemical structure that allows them to effectively bypass gastric uptake for transport directly to the liver for oxidation. Their unusual chemical structure and metabolic process has resulted in MCTs being a focus for a wide range of therapeutic and exercise supplement uses.<\/P> In the context of exercise science, recent research has shown that MCTs significantly (up to 65%) increase resting energy expenditure, along with dose-dependently reducing fatty acid deposition in adipose tissue. These results suggest that MCTs are effectively increasing the body\u2019s metabolic response to food intake.<\/P> Avocado, on the other hand, is composed principally of monounsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid. Like MCTs, oleic acid has been positively associated with promoting the maintenance of healthy weight in populations whose diet contains significant amounts of oleic acid.<\/P> Digestive Enzyme Blend, Antioxidants, and Spectra<\/P> One can easily make the argument that dietary enzymes \u2013 and in particular, digestive enzymes \u2013 are the most consistently underrated and overlooked component to a supplementation regimen. These powerful little protein structures influence or outright control a vast, complex network of bodily functions. In a fitness-specific context, digestive enzymes play an absolutely crucial role in the breaking down of dietary carbohydrates, fats, and proteins into their constitutive parts, and therefore allow your body to use them in various processes (glycogenesis, protein synthesis, etc).<\/P> Despite their critical function, many supplement companies overlook the necessity of digestive enzymes and do not include sufficient levels (and kinds) of enzymes in their products. For a whey product, in particular \u2013 a compound that requires significant digestion and breakdown \u2013 this is madness.<\/P> As usual, we take a much more comprehensive, clinical approach than the average. In Core GROW, we have included a digestive enzyme blend comprised by five of the most clinically-researched, critical function enzymes available. We have chosen them strategically and synergistically, ensuring they fulfill multiple functions, including, though not limited to: aiding in the breakdown of milk proteins and sugars, supporting healthy carbohydrate and fat metabolism and breakdown, and assisting in the metabolism of carbohydrates and starch.<\/P> In addition to the specific focus on digestion in GROW, we have added in a potent antioxidant in the form of pomegranate powder. Emerging data has begun to suggest that pomegranate, long a staple of tropical diets, has potent free-radical scavenging ability \u2013 scientific parlance for the ability to reduce damage from unchecked oxidation. In both cell cultures and animal models \u2013 the gold-standards for anti-oxidant assessment \u2013 pomegranate has demonstrated one of the highest per-gram, standardized ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) values on record. These results suggest that even small amounts of pomegranates, its peels, and its powder (which is derived from its fruit and peels) may have beneficial effects in the reduction of harmful oxygen species. <\/P> <\/P><\/SPAN>","gtin12":"602573098332","image":["https:\/\/siteimgs.com\/10017\/item\/core-nutritionals-grow-ch_1556-0.jpg"],"brand":"Core Nutritionals","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/27727\/core-nutritionals-grow-chocolate-bliss-5-lbs.htm","offers":{"@type":"Offer","priceCurrency":"USD","price":"58.99","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/27727\/core-nutritionals-grow-chocolate-bliss-5-lbs.htm","itemCondition":"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewCondition","availability":"http:\/\/schema.org\/InStock"}},{"@type":"Product","name":"Core Nutritionals GROW Peanut Butter Pie - 5.18 Lbs *Expires 5\/21","sku":"CU100","description":" Core GROW is a gaining solution that factors in the reality that people taking it still live a life, still have a diet, and need a gainer that occupies a beneficial place in them. Complete proteins, healthy fat, and whole food based carbs, all in a single scoop.<\/P> When you hear someone say \"This is the best gainer on the market,\u201d what qualities do you think of? High in complete proteins, great carb source, healthy fats? Seems simple enough. Yet, how many gainers really qualify for that definition?<\/P> Core GROW does and is hands down, flat-out, the most complete, soundest gainer on the market with the highest quality ingredients. There\u2019s no flashy \"new carb\u201d technologies in GROW \u2013 there\u2019s only a whole food-based carb blend derived from the foods you are already eating. Quick: name a fitness staple for carbs. You answered oats, and so did we. That\u2019s why oatmeal flour is the cornerstone of our carbohydrate blend \u2013 along with nutritionally dense sweet potato and quinoa flours.<\/P> Complete proteins? How about cold-processed, undenatured whey protein concentrate? But we doubled it. Not only is our protein a complete protein, but some of our carbs are too \u2013 quinoa is among a handful of plants that provide a complete amino acid profile.<\/P> Healthy fats? How about coconut oil powder, avocado powder and MCT oil powder? Rich, nutrient dense fats derived from real foods.<\/P> And of course, to help you digest this meal in a scoop, we\u2019ve included an industry-best enzyme blend. Not to mention that nearly every ingredient in our formulation has a vitamin, mineral, and micronutrient profile that would make a dietician blush with envy.<\/P> Growing and gains should fit into your life, not pose a problem to it. Core GROW is a gaining solution that factors in the reality that people taking it still live a life, still have a diet, and need a gainer that occupies a beneficial place in them. We said above that this is the best gainer on the market, and we meant it. Now you simply need to grab some GROW and see for yourself.<\/P> Physiological Properties and Effects:<\/P> BRO-Carb Blend:<\/P> The carbohydrate blend in Core GROW is composed of four sources: barley flour, oatmeal flour, sweet potato flour, and quinoa flour. As individual plants and food products, a very large and robust amount of literature exists to support the roles of oats, sweet potato, and quinoa in achieving and maintaining a healthy life.<\/P> Oats (Avena sativa) have been cultivated and used for either human sustenance or animal feed for at least 2,000 years. Oats \u2013 along with other cereals \u2013 have been regarded as an important source of nutrition or a dietary staple on a global scale during most of that period. Recent research into the plant has established the scientific consensus that oats are a \"health food\u201d for a myriad of reasons.<\/P> The United States Food and Drug Administration, for example, ruled that consuming a 3g serving of oat fiber daily had been shown to reduce both total and LDL cholesterol in 1997. In the nearly twenty years since that ruling, significant scientific consensus has emerged that oat fiber, consumed in at least 3g per day, play a role in the regulation of lipoprotein levels.<\/P> Studies on other oat benefits have demonstrated similar results. Studies conducted since 1992 have demonstrated the regular consumption of oats is positively associated with the regulation of satiety through appetite-controlling hormones, maintaining a healthy blood pressure, and assisting in the healthy production and regulation of glucose.<\/P> Research on barley has shown similar effects. For example, in a study with 25 hypercholesterolemic patients (a mixture of women and men), adding barley to a diet specifically-tailored to reduce cholesterol demonstrated ever further reduced LDL and helped to balance the LDL:HDL ratio.<\/P> The other carbohydrate sources in Core GROW, sweet potato and quinoa, also have growing bodies of data to support their role as \"health foods.\u201d<\/P> Quinoa is naturally gluten-free, contains all the essential amino acids needed for bodily function, has more than double the fiber mg-for-mg as most grains, and has been shown in clinical trials to assist in the healthy management of triglycerides, LDL, and glucose. These benefits are in addition to quinoa\u2019s well-established micro-nutrient, vitamin, and mineral profile: the plant contains high levels of bioactive flavonoids, antioxidants, in addition to high levels of iron, magnesium, and vitamin B-2.<\/P> Sweet potato, like quinoa, is also gluten-free. The plant contains more than 100% of the daily-recommended value of vitamin A, and is also high in vitamins B5 and B6, niacin and riboflavin. Sweet potato is also a rich source of antioxidants.<\/P> In total, the carbohydrates found in the BRO-Carb blend are useful for not only their caloric value, but maybe more importantly, their roles as well-established \"health foods.\u201d<\/P> Cold-Processed Undenatured Whey Protein Concentrate<\/P> When you vigorously train or exert yourself, a process called protein degradation (the breakdown of muscle protein) begins so that the body can fuel itself, and a process called muscle protein synthesis (the creation of muscle protein) slows down. Think of this like shutting off your engine (protein synthesis), in order to fuel your car (muscle protein breakdown). As this entire process plays out, the available pool of amino acids in skeletal muscle depletes, as they too are drawn in and broken down in the natural, catabolic process during exercise.<\/P> While this situation is quite adequate during a training session, it\u2019s precisely the opposite of what we want afterwards. At that point, we want the available pool of amino acids to increase, protein degradation to slow or stop, and muscle protein synthesis to increase. Enter protein supplements. Protein powders are a quick, convenient way to rapidly increase the available pool of amino acids in skeletal muscle.<\/P> However, not all proteins are created equal when assessed within the matrix of molecular triggers, enzymes, and amino acids that constitute skeletal muscle protein synthesis. Low quality blends, fillers, masking agents, and the like reduce the net protein content of many protein products, ultimately reducing lean muscle impact.<\/P> A quality protein supplement not only contains a high amount of protein, but the protein sources from which it draws need to be themselves high quality \u2013 and the benefit a particular protein source has can be assessed by analyzing its amino acid profile. Human skeletal muscle makes the most use out of a few, particular amino acids (the BCAAs among them), and so a quality protein needs to have an amino acid profile that is optimal for this context.<\/P> We chose the protein blend for Core GROW with optimization in mind. Our cold-processed undenatured whey protein concentrate has a robust and complete amino acid profile that has been shown in research to increase nitrogen retention, lean muscle impact, and satiating ability (the feeling of fullness).<\/P> PHAT Blend:<\/P> Like our BRO-Carb Blend, our PHAT Blend is whole-food derived in order to deliver fats that not only provides calories, but are additionally healthy on a more substantive level. We deliver this through the use of coconut oil powder and avocado powder as the primary ingredients, with the addition of MCT oil powder.<\/P> Coconut oil is incredibly high in a specific form of saturated fatty acids known as medium-chain triglycerides, or MCTs \u2013 the oil from which is the final ingredient in our fat blend. While saturated fatty acids were typically demonized in both the scientific and popular literature, recent research has revealed this characterization as false. Saturated acids, and particularly MCTs, have been demonstrated as conferring various metabolic benefits when eaten in substantial enough servings.<\/P> Medium chain triglycerides are a form of fat with 6-12 carbon fatty acid esters, a chemical structure that allows them to effectively bypass gastric uptake for transport directly to the liver for oxidation. Their unusual chemical structure and metabolic process has resulted in MCTs being a focus for a wide range of therapeutic and exercise supplement uses.<\/P> In the context of exercise science, recent research has shown that MCTs significantly (up to 65%) increase resting energy expenditure, along with dose-dependently reducing fatty acid deposition in adipose tissue. These results suggest that MCTs are effectively increasing the body\u2019s metabolic response to food intake.<\/P> Avocado, on the other hand, is composed principally of monounsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid. Like MCTs, oleic acid has been positively associated with promoting the maintenance of healthy weight in populations whose diet contains significant amounts of oleic acid.<\/P> Digestive Enzyme Blend, Antioxidants, and Spectra<\/P> One can easily make the argument that dietary enzymes \u2013 and in particular, digestive enzymes \u2013 are the most consistently underrated and overlooked component to a supplementation regimen. These powerful little protein structures influence or outright control a vast, complex network of bodily functions. In a fitness-specific context, digestive enzymes play an absolutely crucial role in the breaking down of dietary carbohydrates, fats, and proteins into their constitutive parts, and therefore allow your body to use them in various processes (glycogenesis, protein synthesis, etc).<\/P> Despite their critical function, many supplement companies overlook the necessity of digestive enzymes and do not include sufficient levels (and kinds) of enzymes in their products. For a whey product, in particular \u2013 a compound that requires significant digestion and breakdown \u2013 this is madness.<\/P> As usual, we take a much more comprehensive, clinical approach than the average. In Core GROW, we have included a digestive enzyme blend comprised by five of the most clinically-researched, critical function enzymes available. We have chosen them strategically and synergistically, ensuring they fulfill multiple functions, including, though not limited to: aiding in the breakdown of milk proteins and sugars, supporting healthy carbohydrate and fat metabolism and breakdown, and assisting in the metabolism of carbohydrates and starch.<\/P> In addition to the specific focus on digestion in GROW, we have added in a potent antioxidant in the form of pomegranate powder. Emerging data has begun to suggest that pomegranate, long a staple of tropical diets, has potent free-radical scavenging ability \u2013 scientific parlance for the ability to reduce damage from unchecked oxidation. In both cell cultures and animal models \u2013 the gold-standards for anti-oxidant assessment \u2013 pomegranate has demonstrated one of the highest per-gram, standardized ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) values on record. These results suggest that even small amounts of pomegranates, its peels, and its powder (which is derived from its fruit and peels) may have beneficial effects in the reduction of harmful oxygen species. <\/P> <\/P><\/SPAN>","gtin12":"602573098349","image":["https:\/\/siteimgs.com\/10017\/item\/core-nutritionals-grow-pe_1555-0.jpg"],"brand":"Core Nutritionals","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/27726\/core-nutritionals-grow-peanut-butter-pie-5-lbs.htm","offers":{"@type":"Offer","priceCurrency":"USD","price":"44.99","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/27726\/core-nutritionals-grow-peanut-butter-pie-5-lbs.htm","itemCondition":"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewCondition","availability":"http:\/\/schema.org\/InStock"}},{"@type":"Product","name":"Core Nutritionals Glutamine - 300 Grams","sku":"CU050","description":" RECOVER \/ REPAIR \/ RESTORE<\/P> Glutamine has been shown to:<\/P> Help maintain immune system function. Despite the widely held belief that the scientific jury on glutamine is out, a fair amount of evidence exists to suggest that glutamine is beneficial to the human body in a variety of applications. Most of the problem, however, arises in the paltry servings that most companies throw into their formulations \u2013 effectively relegating glutamine to the \"window dressing\u201d category. <\/P> Not us. We are proud to feature glutamine, at effective servings, in our products. And we are even prouder to provide you a high quality source of pure glutamine that you can add to your already killer stack.<\/P> Science<\/P> Glutamine is one of the body\u2019s most abundant amino acids, and is an amino acid known as, \"conditionally essential.\u201d This means that while the body is capable of producing it under normal physiological conditions, it may require additional dietary sources under certain conditions such as athletic training or stress. In these conditions, glutamine takes on a critical role in the metabolism of muscular protein, in the volumization of cells, and the reduction of cell catabolism (particularly in stressful or traumatic situations). Glutamine has additionally been demonstrated to be immunoprotective in stressful situations, meaning that supplementation with glutamine may help to maintain immune system function.<\/P> Serving Size: 1 scoop (5000mg) Servings Per Container: 60<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><\/P> \u2020 <\/SPAN>Daily value not established.<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><\/P> <\/P><\/DIV>","gtin12":"850757001375","image":["https:\/\/siteimgs.com\/10017\/item\/glutamine-2020-core_1607611921-0.jpg"],"brand":"Core Nutritionals","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/16983\/core-nutritionals-bcaa-300-grams.htm","offers":{"@type":"Offer","priceCurrency":"USD","price":"17.99","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/16983\/core-nutritionals-bcaa-300-grams.htm","itemCondition":"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewCondition","availability":"http:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}},{"@type":"Product","name":"Core Nutritionals HARD - 84 Cap","sku":"CU045","description":" Advanced Recomposition and Hardening Agent<\/SPAN><\/P> Your diet is impeccable and couldn\u2019t be any more in check \u2013 macros, micros, you have it all down. Your workouts? Get out of here! You have slaved, grinded, and grunted your way through leg workouts so intense the gym staff cried \u2013 and those were on your worst days. And yet, something is missing. The reality? It isn\u2019t all that unattainable. Getting \"that\u201d look, \"that\u201d hardness, is about balance and recomposition. It\u2019s a matter of adding in that final piece of the puzzle that makes the entire picture come out perfectly. <\/SPAN><\/P> N-Coumaroyldopamine Increasing bloodflow (\"pump\u201d). To say that cAMP is a desirable compound to increase the release of \u2013 which activating the beta-2-adrenergic receptor does \u2013 would qualify as the understatement of the year!<\/SPAN><\/P> 3,3'-Diindolylmethane (DIM) L-Theanine \u2020 Daily value not established.<\/SPAN><\/P> * Percent values are based on 2,000 calorie diet.<\/SPAN><\/P> Other Ingredients: Gelatin, Magnesium Stearate, Silicon Dioxide, FD&C Blue, Titanium Dioxide.<\/SPAN><\/P> Directions: Take 1 capsule 2-3 times per day. For optimal results, take 1 capsule upon waking, 1 capsule midday, and 1 capsule before bed. Do not exceed 4 capsules in a 24 hour period. For best results, use for 4 to 8 weeks. Do not use for longer than 8 continuous weeks without taking a 4 week break. <\/SPAN> <\/P>","gtin12":"672975315283","image":["https:\/\/siteimgs.com\/10017\/item\/core-hard-1800x1800_1603301537-0.jpg"],"brand":"Core Nutritionals","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/16747\/core-nutritionals-core-hard-84-cap.htm","offers":{"@type":"Offer","priceCurrency":"USD","price":"39.99","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/16747\/core-nutritionals-core-hard-84-cap.htm","itemCondition":"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewCondition","availability":"http:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}},{"@type":"Product","name":"Core Nutritionals HARD Extreme Black Lightening - 28 Servings","sku":"CU281","description":" Core HARD Extreme<\/P> Advanced Recomposition & Hardening Agent Core HARD is the pinnacle in recomposition supplementation. The ingredients in HARD have been specifically chosen to balance your hormonal environment and maximize your lean mass.<\/P> 3 scoops per serving. Your diet is impeccable and couldn\u2019t be any more in check \u2013 macros, micros, you have it all down. Your workouts? Get out of here! You have slaved, grinded, and grunted your way through leg workouts so intense the gym staff cried \u2013 and those were on your worst days. And yet, something is missing.<\/P> It\u2019s that \"extra\u201d level of shred, \"that look.\u201d You know exactly what we mean. That type of leanness and density that makes an arm look twice as big, a stomach look twice as lean, and a forearm look like a roadmap for the Italian countryside. It\u2019s that kind of elusive hardness that\u2019s so rare, most of us simply chalk it up to genetics, or luck, or steroids, or whatever excuse we have handy \u2013 and yet we all still want it.<\/P> The reality? It isn\u2019t all that unattainable. Getting \"that\u201d look, \"that\u201d hardness, is about balance and recomposition. It\u2019s a matter of adding in that final piece of the puzzle that makes the entire picture come out perfectly.<\/P> To be hard, you need to get HARD. It\u2019s that simple.<\/P> Core HARD is another product in the Core Nutritionals\u2019 lineup to follow the basic, but indispensable principles that Core Nutritionals is slowly making an industry standard: create products with effective ingredients, in effective doses, in a non-proprietary formula. This time around, we have applied those principles to the problem of softness that we all despise and have developed the most advanced ultra-hardening and recomposition agent on the market.<\/P> Physiological Properties and Effects:<\/P> KSM-66® Full-Spectrum Ashwagandha Extract (Withania somnifera) (root) (5% withanolides)<\/P> Withania somnifera Dunal, colloquially known as Winter Cherry or Indian Ginseng, is an herb that features prominently in the traditional Indian medicinal system of Ayurveda. Known as Ashwagandha in Ayurveda, Withania somnifera is a critical ingredient in various Ayurvedic tonics and tinctures prepared as a traditional remedy for the treatment of various ailments.<\/P> Recently identified as a potent adaptogenic and target for therapeutic applications, Ashwaghanda has been the subject of numerous animal, pre-clinical, and clinical trials designed to examine its potential effects as an antioxidant, anti-carcinogenic, anxiolytic, antibacterial, antifungal, and immonumodulating compound. Ashwaghanda\u2019s broad therapeutic potential is hypothesized to be the result of its robust phytochemical profile, including a wide swath of alkaloids, sitoindosides, and the highly biologically active withanolide group. As the principally biologically active compounds within Ashwaghanda, withanolides such as withanone, withaferine A, withanolides A, D, and G have been identified, isolated, and extensively studied in the various applications noted above.<\/P> In recognition of the potential physiological benefits of withanolides, Core Nutritionals selected KSM-66® to include in its HARD formula. KSM-66® is a full-spectrum Ashwaghanda extract, standardized for 5% withanolides \u2013 meaning that KSM-66® not only includes the full range of biologically active compounds within Ashwaghanda, but also that it contains the highest currently available concentration of the principally active withanolides (5%).<\/P> The high concentrations of withanolides within KSM-66® has resulted in encouraging results in a number of human, clinical trials \u2013 particularly considering many of these trials were conducted using the methodological gold standard of randomization, double-blind delivery, and placebo control. Amongst the most impressive results contained in these trials:<\/P> A 27.9% reduction in serum cortisol levels, measured over 60 days in a trial featuring 64 chronically stressed adults. Phosphatidylserine (50%)<\/P> Phosphatidylserine, colloquially known as PS, is a nearly ubiquitous phospholipid found in various membranous tissues throughout the body. PS\u2019s ubiquity coincides with its necessity for crucial physiological functions, as the phospholipid is implicated in several components of cell communication, as well as the mediation of catecholamine synthesis and transmission in the brain (along with other neuroendocrine functions). In a fitness-related context, a nascent but growing body of methodologically-sound research suggests that PS may play a role in increasing exercise capacity.<\/P> Studies administering the compound in both acute and chronic fashion suggest that PS has a measurable effect on exercise capacity. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial involving 16 trained athletes, phosphatidylserine was administered for 10 days prior to an acute exercise challenge. Exercise markers such as exercise time to exhaustion, sprint performance, and ratings of perceived exertion, were measured post-exercise. The authors found that exercise time to exhaustion was significantly altered. Related studies using similar serving sizes have found that chronic PS administration increased shot accuracy in golfers, increased exercise time to exhaustion by 28% in cyclists, and reduced subjective feelings of stress and soreness in others.<\/P> Overall, phosphatidylserine appears to play a valuable role in the increase in exercise capacity. PS may therefore play a critical role in the continued exercise success of bodybuilders in a, \"cutting\u201d or recomposition stage.<\/P> Pomegranate Extract (Punica granatum) (hull) (ellagic acid 40%)<\/P> Pomegranate is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub, endemic to and cultivated in wide swaths of both Europe and Asia. Pomegranate is also the predominant member of two species comprising the Punicaceae family<\/P> Pomegranate fruit has long been consumed as a dietary staple, and recent research has uncovered that the peel, in particular, harbors a broad range of physiologically active compounds known as polyphenols \u2013 most prominently ellagitannins. When consumed, these ellagitannins are hydrolyzed to ellagic acid in the gut, and released into the blood, allowing ellagic acid to be widely distributed to many target tissues and organs. <\/P> While still preliminary, emerging animal and in vitro data on PME (pomegranate extract) suggests that both specific and whole plant extracts may exert interesting endocrine effects. In a study examining the effects of PME on cultured human cells, PME was shown to down-regulate estrogen-receptor gene expression, and inhibit binding \u2013 suggesting that PME may possess some anti-estrogenic effects, at least in vitro. In another study in rats, PME\u2019s robust antioxidant profile was hypothesized to increase androgenic activity via reducing oxygen radicals in the testes.<\/P> Though PME lacks robust human data, the available literature suggests that this compound may possess some highly useful physiological effects.<\/P> White Button Mushroom Extract (Agaricus blazei) (fruit) (30% polysaccharides)<\/P> Agaricus blazei, known commonly by a plethora of names \u2013 including button mushroom, white button mushroom, table mushroom, and champignon mushroom \u2013 is a small, edible mushroom endemic to North America and Europe. The most commonly consumed mushroom on the planet, commercial production and consumption of white button mushroom has existed since at least the early 18th century, while indigenous oral records suggest the plant was consumed for centuries prior.<\/P> Recent medical research has discovered that white button mushroom is a rich source of biologically-active compounds, including ergothioneine, an antioxidant with particularly potent free radical scavenging activity. Similar research has found that white button mushrooms \u2013 along with other varieties \u2013 possess unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid, linolenic acid, and conjugated linoleic acid that may exert inhibitory activity on human aromatase, a cytochrome-P450 complex responsible for the conversion of testosterone into estrogen.<\/P> In two separate studies by similar researchers, both rats and human cell lines were fed and\/or incubated with various extract strengths and doses of white button mushroom extract. Both the animal experiments and \"in-cell\u201d aromatase assays demonstrated that WBME exerted powerful anti-aromatase effects, reducing total aromatase amounts and activity across all experimental conditions.<\/P> The most encouraging aspect of these studies is the servings of white button mushroom used in the experimental conditions: they are easily achievable through oral consumption, unlike many other plant-based, physiologically active compounds.<\/P> L-Theanine<\/P> Though the literature surrounding L-theanine is still emerging, the amino acid is slowly building a reputation as one of the most interesting and exciting compounds being targeted for therapeutic use. L-theanine is an amino acid found almost exclusively in tea, constituting approximately 1-2% of the dry weight of tea \u2013 resulting in a 25\u201360 mg theanine load per 200 ml serving of liquid tea.<\/P> First identified in green tea and in the mushroom Xerocomus badius, L-theanine readily crosses the blood-brain barrier in a dose-dependent manner, and it is thought to in?uence the central nervous system (CNS) through a variety of mechanisms, including:<\/P> Inhibiting glutamate reuptake and blockade of glutamate receptors in the hippocampus. 3,3'-Diindolylmethane (DIM)<\/P> What we typically refer to as \"Estrogen,\u201d is in fact a group of three biologically distinct hormones \u2013 estradiol (E2), estrone (E1), and estriol (E3), each possessing different activities in different cell, tissue, and receptor types. When experts refer to either the benefits or downfalls of \"estrogen,\" they really mean to identify a specific estrogen.<\/P> These specific estrogens, in turn, metabolize into even more specific estrogen sub-compounds, such as the 2-hydroxyestrogens (2-OHE\u2019s), 2-methoxyestrogens, 16a-hydroxyestrone (16-OHE1), and 4-hydroxyestrogens (4-OHE\u2019s). As their parent estrogens, these estrogen metabolites exert different effects depending upon the tissue and cell one is examining. In fact, two estrogen metabolites in particular, 16-OHE1 and 2-OHE, have such contrasting cellular activities that 2-OHE is an estrogen antagonist. Yes, that is correct: there is an anti-estrogen, estrogen.<\/P> In recent years, so-called phytonutrients have become the focus of clinical research, as these natural compounds have shown the ability to modulate the body\u2019s estrogen ratio. One of these phytonutrients, is a dietary indole known as indole-3-carbinol (I3C). Unfortunately, despite its metabolic usefulness, I3C is highly molecularly unstable, and therefore unsuitable for use as a therapeutic agent or dietary supplement.<\/P> N-Coumaroyldopamine<\/P> N-Coumaroyldopamine is a natural analogue to the phytochemical N-Caffeoyldopamine, itself found prominently in various plants, including cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.). N-Coumaroyldopamine, its parent compounds, and other analogs that derive from its parent compound, have recently been the subject of phytochemical analyses due to their chemical similarity to sympathomimetic amines known to couple to the beta-2-adrenergic receptor.<\/P> Phytochemical analyses were subsequently designed to assess the potency of N-Coumaroyldopamine and N-Caffeoyldopamine as beta-2-adrenergic receptor agonists \u2013 or, in simpler terms, their ability to \"turn on\u201d the fabled beta-2-adrenergic receptor. In these trials, the phytochemicals were shown to be as potent as several well-known beta-2-adrenergic receptor agonists (salbutamol, procaterol, and fenoterol). You read that correctly: N-Coumaroyldopamine and N-Caffeoyldopamine were found to bind as tightly to the beta-2-adrenergic receptor as well known synthetic compounds!<\/P> The desirability of activating the beta-2-adrenergic receptor arises due to the critical role that beta-2-adrenertic receptors play in both skeletal muscle and adipose metabolic function. In particular, beta-2-adrenergic receptors have been shown to induce dilation in the vasculature (vasodilation \u2013 the process involved in a \"pump\u201d), increase oxygen uptake and nutrient transport to skeletal muscle, regulate thermogenesis (the production of body heat), inhibit the pro-adipogenic effects of other adrenergic receptor types, as well as directly increase lipolysis and the oxidation of fatty acids.<\/P> Beta-2-adrenergic receptors achieve these effects via one of the body\u2019s key chemical messengers, known as cAMP (cyclic adenosine monophosphate). cAMP works as a sort of cell-type translator and foreman: it receives an input from, say, a receptor such as the beta-2-adrenergic receptor, and then communicates and directs the types of cells that the beta-2-adrenergic receptor would like to target.<\/P> Just within the context of beta-2-adrenergic agonism, this amounts to cAMP increasing resting metabolic rate and caloric expenditure (the amount of calories you burn), improving peripheral sensitivity to glucose and glucose utilization, reduction of gluconeogenesis, induction of AMPk (adenosine monophosphate kinase) release, triggering of lipolysis, the inhibition of lipogenesis, and vasodilation.<\/P> Or, in other words, cAMP is involved in nearly every beneficial physiological process that a lifter, runner, hiker, jumper, runner, tumbler, and fumbler would want. cAMP is involved in:<\/P> Increasing bloodflow (\"pump\u201d). Luckily, however, I3C readily metabolizes into the secondary indole 3,3\u2019 diindolylmethane, or DIM for short. When used in a supplemental fashion in clinical trials, DIM appears to possess all the positive effects of its parent compound.<\/P> DIM also exerts its own direct physiological effects, including:<\/P> Adjusting the activity of certain cytochrome enzymes, reducing the activity at the estrogen receptor site. Core HARD Extreme<\/P> Advanced Recomposition & Hardening Agent Core HARD is the pinnacle in recomposition supplementation. The ingredients in HARD have been specifically chosen to balance your hormonal environment and maximize your lean mass.<\/P> 3 scoops per serving. Your diet is impeccable and couldn\u2019t be any more in check \u2013 macros, micros, you have it all down. Your workouts? Get out of here! You have slaved, grinded, and grunted your way through leg workouts so intense the gym staff cried \u2013 and those were on your worst days. And yet, something is missing.<\/P> It\u2019s that \"extra\u201d level of shred, \"that look.\u201d You know exactly what we mean. That type of leanness and density that makes an arm look twice as big, a stomach look twice as lean, and a forearm look like a roadmap for the Italian countryside. It\u2019s that kind of elusive hardness that\u2019s so rare, most of us simply chalk it up to genetics, or luck, or steroids, or whatever excuse we have handy \u2013 and yet we all still want it.<\/P> The reality? It isn\u2019t all that unattainable. Getting \"that\u201d look, \"that\u201d hardness, is about balance and recomposition. It\u2019s a matter of adding in that final piece of the puzzle that makes the entire picture come out perfectly.<\/P> To be hard, you need to get HARD. It\u2019s that simple.<\/P> Core HARD is another product in the Core Nutritionals\u2019 lineup to follow the basic, but indispensable principles that Core Nutritionals is slowly making an industry standard: create products with effective ingredients, in effective doses, in a non-proprietary formula. This time around, we have applied those principles to the problem of softness that we all despise and have developed the most advanced ultra-hardening and recomposition agent on the market.<\/P> Physiological Properties and Effects:<\/P> KSM-66® Full-Spectrum Ashwagandha Extract (Withania somnifera) (root) (5% withanolides)<\/P> Withania somnifera Dunal, colloquially known as Winter Cherry or Indian Ginseng, is an herb that features prominently in the traditional Indian medicinal system of Ayurveda. Known as Ashwagandha in Ayurveda, Withania somnifera is a critical ingredient in various Ayurvedic tonics and tinctures prepared as a traditional remedy for the treatment of various ailments.<\/P> Recently identified as a potent adaptogenic and target for therapeutic applications, Ashwaghanda has been the subject of numerous animal, pre-clinical, and clinical trials designed to examine its potential effects as an antioxidant, anti-carcinogenic, anxiolytic, antibacterial, antifungal, and immonumodulating compound. Ashwaghanda\u2019s broad therapeutic potential is hypothesized to be the result of its robust phytochemical profile, including a wide swath of alkaloids, sitoindosides, and the highly biologically active withanolide group. As the principally biologically active compounds within Ashwaghanda, withanolides such as withanone, withaferine A, withanolides A, D, and G have been identified, isolated, and extensively studied in the various applications noted above.<\/P> In recognition of the potential physiological benefits of withanolides, Core Nutritionals selected KSM-66® to include in its HARD formula. KSM-66® is a full-spectrum Ashwaghanda extract, standardized for 5% withanolides \u2013 meaning that KSM-66® not only includes the full range of biologically active compounds within Ashwaghanda, but also that it contains the highest currently available concentration of the principally active withanolides (5%).<\/P> The high concentrations of withanolides within KSM-66® has resulted in encouraging results in a number of human, clinical trials \u2013 particularly considering many of these trials were conducted using the methodological gold standard of randomization, double-blind delivery, and placebo control. Amongst the most impressive results contained in these trials:<\/P> A 27.9% reduction in serum cortisol levels, measured over 60 days in a trial featuring 64 chronically stressed adults. Phosphatidylserine (50%)<\/P> Phosphatidylserine, colloquially known as PS, is a nearly ubiquitous phospholipid found in various membranous tissues throughout the body. PS\u2019s ubiquity coincides with its necessity for crucial physiological functions, as the phospholipid is implicated in several components of cell communication, as well as the mediation of catecholamine synthesis and transmission in the brain (along with other neuroendocrine functions). In a fitness-related context, a nascent but growing body of methodologically-sound research suggests that PS may play a role in increasing exercise capacity.<\/P> Studies administering the compound in both acute and chronic fashion suggest that PS has a measurable effect on exercise capacity. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial involving 16 trained athletes, phosphatidylserine was administered for 10 days prior to an acute exercise challenge. Exercise markers such as exercise time to exhaustion, sprint performance, and ratings of perceived exertion, were measured post-exercise. The authors found that exercise time to exhaustion was significantly altered. Related studies using similar serving sizes have found that chronic PS administration increased shot accuracy in golfers, increased exercise time to exhaustion by 28% in cyclists, and reduced subjective feelings of stress and soreness in others.<\/P> Overall, phosphatidylserine appears to play a valuable role in the increase in exercise capacity. PS may therefore play a critical role in the continued exercise success of bodybuilders in a, \"cutting\u201d or recomposition stage.<\/P> Pomegranate Extract (Punica granatum) (hull) (ellagic acid 40%)<\/P> Pomegranate is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub, endemic to and cultivated in wide swaths of both Europe and Asia. Pomegranate is also the predominant member of two species comprising the Punicaceae family<\/P> Pomegranate fruit has long been consumed as a dietary staple, and recent research has uncovered that the peel, in particular, harbors a broad range of physiologically active compounds known as polyphenols \u2013 most prominently ellagitannins. When consumed, these ellagitannins are hydrolyzed to ellagic acid in the gut, and released into the blood, allowing ellagic acid to be widely distributed to many target tissues and organs. <\/P> While still preliminary, emerging animal and in vitro data on PME (pomegranate extract) suggests that both specific and whole plant extracts may exert interesting endocrine effects. In a study examining the effects of PME on cultured human cells, PME was shown to down-regulate estrogen-receptor gene expression, and inhibit binding \u2013 suggesting that PME may possess some anti-estrogenic effects, at least in vitro. In another study in rats, PME\u2019s robust antioxidant profile was hypothesized to increase androgenic activity via reducing oxygen radicals in the testes.<\/P> Though PME lacks robust human data, the available literature suggests that this compound may possess some highly useful physiological effects.<\/P> White Button Mushroom Extract (Agaricus blazei) (fruit) (30% polysaccharides)<\/P> Agaricus blazei, known commonly by a plethora of names \u2013 including button mushroom, white button mushroom, table mushroom, and champignon mushroom \u2013 is a small, edible mushroom endemic to North America and Europe. The most commonly consumed mushroom on the planet, commercial production and consumption of white button mushroom has existed since at least the early 18th century, while indigenous oral records suggest the plant was consumed for centuries prior.<\/P> Recent medical research has discovered that white button mushroom is a rich source of biologically-active compounds, including ergothioneine, an antioxidant with particularly potent free radical scavenging activity. Similar research has found that white button mushrooms \u2013 along with other varieties \u2013 possess unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid, linolenic acid, and conjugated linoleic acid that may exert inhibitory activity on human aromatase, a cytochrome-P450 complex responsible for the conversion of testosterone into estrogen.<\/P> In two separate studies by similar researchers, both rats and human cell lines were fed and\/or incubated with various extract strengths and doses of white button mushroom extract. Both the animal experiments and \"in-cell\u201d aromatase assays demonstrated that WBME exerted powerful anti-aromatase effects, reducing total aromatase amounts and activity across all experimental conditions.<\/P> The most encouraging aspect of these studies is the servings of white button mushroom used in the experimental conditions: they are easily achievable through oral consumption, unlike many other plant-based, physiologically active compounds.<\/P> L-Theanine<\/P> Though the literature surrounding L-theanine is still emerging, the amino acid is slowly building a reputation as one of the most interesting and exciting compounds being targeted for therapeutic use. L-theanine is an amino acid found almost exclusively in tea, constituting approximately 1-2% of the dry weight of tea \u2013 resulting in a 25\u201360 mg theanine load per 200 ml serving of liquid tea.<\/P> First identified in green tea and in the mushroom Xerocomus badius, L-theanine readily crosses the blood-brain barrier in a dose-dependent manner, and it is thought to in?uence the central nervous system (CNS) through a variety of mechanisms, including:<\/P> Inhibiting glutamate reuptake and blockade of glutamate receptors in the hippocampus. 3,3'-Diindolylmethane (DIM)<\/P> What we typically refer to as \"Estrogen,\u201d is in fact a group of three biologically distinct hormones \u2013 estradiol (E2), estrone (E1), and estriol (E3), each possessing different activities in different cell, tissue, and receptor types. When experts refer to either the benefits or downfalls of \"estrogen,\" they really mean to identify a specific estrogen.<\/P> These specific estrogens, in turn, metabolize into even more specific estrogen sub-compounds, such as the 2-hydroxyestrogens (2-OHE\u2019s), 2-methoxyestrogens, 16a-hydroxyestrone (16-OHE1), and 4-hydroxyestrogens (4-OHE\u2019s). As their parent estrogens, these estrogen metabolites exert different effects depending upon the tissue and cell one is examining. In fact, two estrogen metabolites in particular, 16-OHE1 and 2-OHE, have such contrasting cellular activities that 2-OHE is an estrogen antagonist. Yes, that is correct: there is an anti-estrogen, estrogen.<\/P> In recent years, so-called phytonutrients have become the focus of clinical research, as these natural compounds have shown the ability to modulate the body\u2019s estrogen ratio. One of these phytonutrients, is a dietary indole known as indole-3-carbinol (I3C). Unfortunately, despite its metabolic usefulness, I3C is highly molecularly unstable, and therefore unsuitable for use as a therapeutic agent or dietary supplement.<\/P> N-Coumaroyldopamine<\/P> N-Coumaroyldopamine is a natural analogue to the phytochemical N-Caffeoyldopamine, itself found prominently in various plants, including cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.). N-Coumaroyldopamine, its parent compounds, and other analogs that derive from its parent compound, have recently been the subject of phytochemical analyses due to their chemical similarity to sympathomimetic amines known to couple to the beta-2-adrenergic receptor.<\/P> Phytochemical analyses were subsequently designed to assess the potency of N-Coumaroyldopamine and N-Caffeoyldopamine as beta-2-adrenergic receptor agonists \u2013 or, in simpler terms, their ability to \"turn on\u201d the fabled beta-2-adrenergic receptor. In these trials, the phytochemicals were shown to be as potent as several well-known beta-2-adrenergic receptor agonists (salbutamol, procaterol, and fenoterol). You read that correctly: N-Coumaroyldopamine and N-Caffeoyldopamine were found to bind as tightly to the beta-2-adrenergic receptor as well known synthetic compounds!<\/P> The desirability of activating the beta-2-adrenergic receptor arises due to the critical role that beta-2-adrenertic receptors play in both skeletal muscle and adipose metabolic function. In particular, beta-2-adrenergic receptors have been shown to induce dilation in the vasculature (vasodilation \u2013 the process involved in a \"pump\u201d), increase oxygen uptake and nutrient transport to skeletal muscle, regulate thermogenesis (the production of body heat), inhibit the pro-adipogenic effects of other adrenergic receptor types, as well as directly increase lipolysis and the oxidation of fatty acids.<\/P> Beta-2-adrenergic receptors achieve these effects via one of the body\u2019s key chemical messengers, known as cAMP (cyclic adenosine monophosphate). cAMP works as a sort of cell-type translator and foreman: it receives an input from, say, a receptor such as the beta-2-adrenergic receptor, and then communicates and directs the types of cells that the beta-2-adrenergic receptor would like to target.<\/P> Just within the context of beta-2-adrenergic agonism, this amounts to cAMP increasing resting metabolic rate and caloric expenditure (the amount of calories you burn), improving peripheral sensitivity to glucose and glucose utilization, reduction of gluconeogenesis, induction of AMPk (adenosine monophosphate kinase) release, triggering of lipolysis, the inhibition of lipogenesis, and vasodilation.<\/P> Or, in other words, cAMP is involved in nearly every beneficial physiological process that a lifter, runner, hiker, jumper, runner, tumbler, and fumbler would want. cAMP is involved in:<\/P> Increasing bloodflow (\"pump\u201d). Luckily, however, I3C readily metabolizes into the secondary indole 3,3\u2019 diindolylmethane, or DIM for short. When used in a supplemental fashion in clinical trials, DIM appears to possess all the positive effects of its parent compound.<\/P> DIM also exerts its own direct physiological effects, including:<\/P> Adjusting the activity of certain cytochrome enzymes, reducing the activity at the estrogen receptor site. RESIST \/ REMAKE \/ POWER<\/SPAN><\/P> HMB has been shown to:<\/SPAN><\/P> Attenuate the rate of muscle protein breakdown. HMB burst onto the bodybuilding market in the early 1990\u2019s, and every supplement company and their brother marketed the compound so heavily it gained a reputation as snake oil. The reviews were so varied that HMB was almost relegated to the dustbin of supplement history.<\/SPAN><\/P> Times have changed, however, and people have once again begun to realize that, when used properly at an effective serving, HMB\u2019s positive contributions to a muscle-sparing environment are impossible to overlook.<\/SPAN><\/P> Science<\/SPAN><\/P> HMB (\u00df-Hydroxy \u00df-Methylbutyrate) is an endogenous metabolite of leucine consumption, being derived from its parent amino acid through two steps of enzymatic conversion. In total, approximately 5% of leucine by weight of consumption is converted into HMB.<\/SPAN><\/P> Once converted, HMB has been demonstrated to possess several interesting effects. In cellular assays, HMB was shown to increase the rate of skeletal protein synthesis through the same mechanism as its parent compound, leucine \u2013 the all-important mTOR-P13K pathway that regulates the majority of muscle protein synthesis in vivo. This mechanism has also translated into practical benefits to human muscle, as various trials have demonstrated HMB to slow the rate of skeletal muscle breakdown, increase power output over both acute (short) and chronic (long-term) trials, as well as mitigating muscle damage during high-intensity exercise.<\/SPAN><\/P> <\/SPAN> <\/P> Supplement Facts<\/SPAN><\/P> Nutritional uses of Calcium \u00df-Hydroxy \u00df-Methylbutyrate Monohydrate are licensed to Core Nutritionals, LLC under U.S. Patent # 6,103,764. 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Making INTRA the only intra-workout solution you’ll ever need.†<\/span><\/p>\r\n The fitness and supplement industry is in a constant state of change. We are learning more each day about how the human body works – and in the process, learning that positive adaptations in response to exercise are facilitated by proper nutrition. As a result, more research than ever is being conducted on the value – and specific protocols involved in – peri- or intra-workout nutrition and supplementation. Research is revealing that adequate intra-workout nutrition and supplementation can delay fatigue and increase endurance, facilitate muscle-specific anabolic response to exercise, reduce delayed onset muscle soreness and increase a wide-range of athletic performance metrics.<\/span><\/p>\r\n At Core Nutritionals, we’ve taken this research seriously and have distilled its results into the most complete and robust intra-workout supplement on the market – Core INTRA. 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Facilitate muscle glycogen recovery after intense physical activities (weight training).
Restore glutamine levels required for healthy muscle growth after intense physical exercise (e.g. sprints, jumping).
To glutamine, or not to glutamine \u2013 that is the question. Well, it\u2019s really not much of a question, considering the potential benefits of a high quality, high purity glutamine are far too numerous to ignore. <\/P>Supplement Facts<\/H3>
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It\u2019s that \"extra\u201d level of shred, \"that look.\u201d You know exactly what we mean. That type of leanness and density that makes an arm look twice as big, a stomach look twice as lean, and a forearm look like a roadmap for the Italian countryside. It\u2019s that kind of elusive hardness that\u2019s so rare, most of us simply chalk it up to genetics, or luck, or steroids, or whatever excuse we have handy \u2013 and yet we all still want it.<\/SPAN><\/P>
Core HARD is another product in the Core Nutritionals\u2019 lineup to follow the basic, but indispensable principles that Core Nutritionals is slowly making an industry standard: create products with effective ingredients, in effective doses, in a non-proprietary formula. This time around, we have applied those principles to the problem of softness that we all despise and have developed the most advanced ultra-hardening and recomposition agent on the market.<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
Taking advantage of both the old and the new, Core Nutritionals has employed both modern, cutting-edge compounds and traditional herbs to create a balanced approach to delivering hardness. Key ingredients in Core HARD affect some of the body\u2019s critical physiological pathways, combining sexiness and science in a single, non-proprietary formula. We have included five powerful ingredients into a full month's worth of stimulant free, recomposition goodness.<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
Core HARD can be used alone, or in a stack with other Core Nutritionals\u2019 products. The BURN HARD stack (Core HARD plus Core BURN) will be the ultimate fat blasting and hardening stack. Men can try the HARD A.B.s stack (Core HARD plus Core ALPHA plus Core BURN) to help create that chiseled look that all men want.<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
Phosphatidylserine, colloquially known as PS, is a nearly ubiquitous phospholipid found in various membranous tissues throughout the body. PS\u2019s ubiquity coincides with its necessity for crucial physiological functions, as the phospholipid is implicated in several components of cell communication, as well as the mediation of catecholamine synthesis and transmission in the brain (along with other neuroendocrine functions). In a fitness-related context, a nascent but growing body of methodologically-sound research suggests that PS may play an active role in the attenuation of stress response, with a resulting increase in total exercise capacity and performance.<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
While several explanations exist as to PS\u2019s specific mechanism of action, one of the earliest proposals was a powerful and acute blunting effect on cortisol production via ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone) reduction. In a double-blind study involving 9 healthy adult males, ranging in age from 18-29, the participants were administered phosphatidylserine for 10 days prior to an acute exercise challenge. Post-exercise measurements found that phosphatidylserine reduced not only ACTH, but also plasma cortisol levels in a statistically significant fashion.<\/DIV>
Subsequent studies administering the compound in both acute and chronic fashion suggest that PS, whether through cortisol-mediated mechanisms or otherwise, has a measurable effect on exercise physiology and exercise capacity. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial involving 16 trained athletes, phosphatidylserine was administered for 10 days prior to an acute exercise challenge. Biomarkers of stress and muscle damage (cortisol, creatine kinase, among them), along with exercise markers such as exercise time to exhaustion, sprint performance, and ratings of perceived exertion, were measured post-exercise. While PS administration did not attenuate markers of physiological stress in this study, the authors found that exercise time to exhaustion was significantly altered. Related studies using similar serving sizes have found that chronic PS administration increased shot accuracy in golfers, increased exercise time to exhaustion by 28% in cyclists, and reduced subjective feelings of stress and soreness in others.
Overall, and whether by cortisol or non-cortisol mediated mechanisms, phosphatidylserine appears to play a valuable role in the reduction of both physiological and psychological stress in response to exercise. In combination with its demonstrated effects on exercise capacity improvement, PS may play a critical role in the continued exercise success of bodybuilders in a, \"cutting\u201d or recomposition stage.
KSM-66® Full-spectrum Ashwagandha root extract (5% Withanolides)
Withania somnifera Dunal, colloquially known as Winter Cherry or Indian Ginseng, is an herb that features prominently in the traditional Indian medicinal system of Ayurveda. Known as Ashwagandha in Ayurveda, Withania somnifera is a critical ingredient in various Ayurvedic tonics and tinctures prepared as a traditional remedy for the treatment of various ailments.
Recently identified as a potent adaptogenic and target for therapeutic applications, Ashwaghanda has been the subject of numerous animal, pre-clinical, and clinical trials designed to examine its potential effects as an antioxidant, anti-carcinogenic, anxiolytic, antibacterial, antifungal, and immonumodulating compound. Ashwaghanda\u2019s broad therapeutic potential is hypothesized to be the result of its robust phytochemical profile, including a wide swath of alkaloids, sitoindosides, and the highly biologically active withanolide group. As the principally biologically active compounds within Ashwaghanda, withanolides such as withanone, withaferine A, withanolides A, D, and G have been identified, isolated, and extensively studied in the various applications noted above. <\/DIV>
The high concentrations of withanolides within KSM-66® has resulted in encouraging results in a number of human, clinical trials \u2013 particularly considering many of these trials were conducted using the methodological gold standard of randomization, double-blind delivery, and placebo control. Amongst the most impressive results contained in these trials:
A 27.9% reduction in serum cortisol levels, measured over 60 days in a trial featuring 64 chronically stressed adults.
Statistically significant increases to endurance and stamina, as measured by VO2 max, in a clinical trial featuring 50 healthy, exercise-trained adults.
Increased measures of well-being as reported by self-assessment scales, included in both the clinical trials mentioned above.
Statistically significant increases in serum testosterone levels in a clinical trial featuring 68 infertile men.
Though each of these results is impressive, perhaps the most significant is the 27.9% reduction in cortisol seen in the 60 day trial. As detailed above, cortisol possesses a multitude of potentially degradative physiological effects, including: inhibiting glucose uptake, causing a constriction of the vasculature (vasoconstriction), the breakdown of glycogen, and inarguably the result most would desire to avoid, proteolysis (the breakdown of muscle tissue).
To put it the simplest way possible, cortisol\u2019s chief functions involve either turning on, or shutting off, the very things we as fitness enthusiasts want to avoid or turn on, respectively!<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
N-Coumaroyldopamine is a natural analogue to the phytochemical N-Caffeoyldopamine, itself found prominently in various plants, including cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.). N-Coumaroyldopamine, its parent compounds, and other analogs that derive from its parent compound, have recently been the subject of phytochemical analyses due to their chemical similarity to sympathomimetic amines known to couple to the beta-2-adrenergic receptor.
Phytochemical analyses were subsequently designed to assess the potency of N-Coumaroyldopamine and N-Caffeoyldopamine as beta-2-adrenergic receptor agonists \u2013 or, in simpler terms, their ability to \"turn on\u201d the fabled beta-2-adrenergic receptor. In these trials, the phytochemicals were shown to be as potent as several well-known beta-2-adrenergic receptor agonists (salbutamol, procaterol, and fenoterol). You read that correctly: N-Coumaroyldopamine and N-Caffeoyldopamine were found to bind as tightly to the beta-2-adrenergic receptor as well known synthetic compounds!
The desirability of activating the beta-2-adrenergic receptor arises due to the critical role that beta-2-adrenertic receptors play in both skeletal muscle and fat metabolic function. In particular, beta-2-adrenergic receptors have been shown to induce dilation in the vasculature (vasodilation \u2013 the process involved in a \"pump\u201d), increase oxygen uptake and nutrient transport to skeletal muscle, regulate thermogenesis (the production of body heat), inhibit the pro-adipogenic (fat constructing) effects of other adrenergic receptor types, as well as directly increase lipolysis and the oxidation of fatty acids \u2013 the literal burning of fat tissue.
Beta-2-adrenergic receptors achieve these effects via one of the body\u2019s key chemical messengers, known as cAMP (cyclic adenosine monophosphate). cAMP works as a sort of cell-type translator and foreman: it receives an input from, say, a receptor such as the beta-2-adrenergic receptor, and then communicates and directs the types of cells that the beta-2-adrenergic receptor would like to target.
Just within the context of beta-2-adrenergic agonism, this amounts to cAMP increasing resting metabolic rate and caloric expenditure (the amount of calories you burn), improving peripheral sensitivity to glucose and glucose utilization, reduction of gluconeogenesis, induction of AMPk (adenosine monophosphate kinase) release, triggering of lipolysis (the literal burning of fat tissue we spoke about earlier), the inhibition of lipogenesis (the creation of fat tissue), and vasodilation.
Or, in other words, cAMP is involved in nearly every beneficial physiological process that a lifter, runner, hiker, jumper, runner, tumbler, and fumbler would want. cAMP is involved in:<\/SPAN><\/P>
Reducing muscle protein usage (catabolism).
Increasing muscle protein synthesis.
Increasing adipose utilization.<\/SPAN><\/P>
What we typically refer to as \"Estrogen,\u201d is in fact a group of three biologically distinct hormones \u2013 estradiol (E2), estrone (E1), and estriol (E3), each possessing different activities in different cell, tissue, and receptor types. When experts refer to either the benefits or downfalls of \"estrogen,\" they really mean to (but probably cannot) identify a specific estrogen.
These specific estrogens, in turn, metabolize into even more specific estrogen sub-compounds, such as the 2-hydroxyestrogens (2-OHE\u2019s), 2-methoxyestrogens, 16a-hydroxyestrone (16-OHE1), and 4-hydroxyestrogens (4-OHE\u2019s). As their parent estrogens, these estrogen metabolites exert different effects depending upon the tissue and cell one is examining. In fact, two estrogen metabolites in particular, 16-OHE1 and 2-OHE, have such contrasting cellular activities that 2-OHE is an estrogen antagonist. Yes, that is correct: there is an anti-estrogen, estrogen.
In recent years, so-called \"phytonutrients\u201d have become the focus of clinical research, as these natural compounds have shown the ability to increase the ratio of good, estrogen decreasing estrogens (such as 2-OHE), to bad, estrogen increasing estrogens (such as 16-OHE1). One of these phytonutrients, a dietary indole known as indole-3-carbinol (I3C), is the bioactive phytochemical and a presumed modulator of reduced cancer risk in areas with high cruciferous vegetable consumption. Unfortunately, despite its potent antiestrogenic activity, I3C is highly molecularly unstable, and therefore unsuitable for use as a therapeutic agent or dietary supplement.
Luckily, however, I3C readily metabolizes into the secondary indole 3,3\u2019 diindolylmethane, or DIM for short. When used in a supplemental fashion in clinical trials, DIM appears to possess all the positive effects of its parent compound with respect to antiestrogenic action \u2013 promoting the metabolism of beneficial estrogens that themselves reduce estrogenic activity.
Aside from its healthy-estrogen promoting abilities, DIM also exerts its own direct physiological effects, including:
Promoting pathways of internal estrogen metabolism that favour the production of anti-estrogen estrogens.
Adjusting the activity of certain cytochrome enzymes, reducing the activity at the estrogen receptor site.
Limit the cell division and growth of certain estrogens.
Despite the bodybuilding community\u2019s single-minded crusade to eliminate estrogen wherever it lie in wait, compounds such as DIM show us that estrogen is a very diverse set of compounds \u2013 and that we should actively pursue increasing certain estrogens that have beneficial, and ironically, anti-estrogenic effects.<\/SPAN><\/P>
Though the literature surrounding L-theanine is still emerging, the amino acid is slowly building a reputation as one of the most interesting and exciting compounds being targeted for therapeutic use. L-theanine is an amino acid found almost exclusively in tea, constituting approximately 1-2% of the dry weight of tea \u2013 resulting in a 25\u201360 mg theanine load per 200 ml serving of liquid tea.
First identified in green tea and in the mushroom Xerocomus badius, L-theanine readily crosses the blood-brain barrier in a dose-dependent manner, and it is thought to in?uence the central nervous system (CNS) through a variety of mechanisms, including:
Increasing the release and concentration of dopamine.
Inhibiting glutamate reuptake and blockade of glutamate receptors in the hippocampus.
Increasing gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA \u2013 a neurotransmitter associated with the regulation of responses) concentrations.
Increasing levels of serotonin.
In addition to these more well-demonstrated effects, emerging electroencephalography trials on theanine suggest that the amino acid may exert a positive effect on alpha waves \u2013 a type of brain wave implicated in restful relaxation. Alpha activity has also been associated with increased creativity, increased performance under stress, and improved learning and concentration, as well as decreased anxiety.
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Supplement Facts
Serving Size: 3 Capsules
Servings Per Container: 28 (days)<\/SPAN><\/P>
Phosphatidyl Serine 50% 500mg \u2020
KSM-66® Full-spectrum
Ashwagandha root extract (5% Withanolides) 600mg \u2020
N-Coumaroyldopamine 40mg \u2020
3,3'-Diindolylmethane (DIM) 200mg \u2020
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To be hard, you need to get HARD. It's that simple.<\/P>
28 servings per container.
Body recomposition.<\/P><\/DIV>
Statistically significant increases to endurance and stamina, as measured by VO2 max, in a clinical trial featuring 50 healthy, exercise-trained adults.
Increased measures of well-being as reported by self-assessment scales, included in both the clinical trials mentioned above.
Statistically significant increases in serum testosterone levels in a clinical trial featuring 68 infertile men.
Though each of these results is impressive, perhaps the most significant is the 27.9% reduction in cortisol seen in the 60 day trial. As detailed above, cortisol possesses a multitude of potentially degradative physiological effects, including: inhibiting glucose uptake, causing a constriction of the vasculature (vasoconstriction), the breakdown of glycogen, and inarguably the result most would desire to avoid, proteolysis (the breakdown of muscle tissue).<\/P>
Increasing gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA \u2013 a neurotransmitter associated with the regulation of responses) concentrations.
In addition to these more well-demonstrated effects, emerging electroencephalography trials on theanine suggest that the amino acid may exert a positive effect on alpha waves \u2013 a type of brain wave implicated in restful relaxation. Alpha activity has also been associated with increased creativity, increased performance under stress, and improved learning and concentration, as well as decreased anxiety.<\/P>
Reducing muscle protein usage (catabolism).
To say that cAMP is a desirable compound to increase the release of \u2013 which activating the beta-2-adrenergic receptor does \u2013 would qualify as the understatement of the year!<\/P>
Limit the cell division and growth of certain estrogens.
Despite the bodybuilding community\u2019s single-minded crusade to eliminate estrogen wherever it lie in wait, compounds such as DIM show us that estrogen is a very diverse set of compounds \u2013 and that we should actively pursue increasing certain estrogens that have beneficial, and ironically, anti-estrogenic effects.<\/P><\/SPAN>","gtin12":"672975315290","image":["https:\/\/siteimgs.com\/10017\/item\/core-nutritionals-hard-ex_2674-0.jpg"],"brand":"Core Nutritionals","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/29893\/core-nutritionals-core-hard-extreme-black.htm","offers":{"@type":"Offer","priceCurrency":"USD","price":"49.99","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/29893\/core-nutritionals-core-hard-extreme-black.htm","itemCondition":"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewCondition","availability":"http:\/\/schema.org\/InStock"}},{"@type":"Product","name":"Core Nutritionals HARD Extreme Pineapple Strawberry - 28 Servings","sku":"CU103","description":"
To be hard, you need to get HARD. It's that simple.<\/P>
28 servings per container.
Body recomposition.<\/P><\/DIV>
Statistically significant increases to endurance and stamina, as measured by VO2 max, in a clinical trial featuring 50 healthy, exercise-trained adults.
Increased measures of well-being as reported by self-assessment scales, included in both the clinical trials mentioned above.
Statistically significant increases in serum testosterone levels in a clinical trial featuring 68 infertile men.
Though each of these results is impressive, perhaps the most significant is the 27.9% reduction in cortisol seen in the 60 day trial. As detailed above, cortisol possesses a multitude of potentially degradative physiological effects, including: inhibiting glucose uptake, causing a constriction of the vasculature (vasoconstriction), the breakdown of glycogen, and inarguably the result most would desire to avoid, proteolysis (the breakdown of muscle tissue).<\/P>
Increasing gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA \u2013 a neurotransmitter associated with the regulation of responses) concentrations.
In addition to these more well-demonstrated effects, emerging electroencephalography trials on theanine suggest that the amino acid may exert a positive effect on alpha waves \u2013 a type of brain wave implicated in restful relaxation. Alpha activity has also been associated with increased creativity, increased performance under stress, and improved learning and concentration, as well as decreased anxiety.<\/P>
Reducing muscle protein usage (catabolism).
To say that cAMP is a desirable compound to increase the release of \u2013 which activating the beta-2-adrenergic receptor does \u2013 would qualify as the understatement of the year!<\/P>
Limit the cell division and growth of certain estrogens.
Despite the bodybuilding community\u2019s single-minded crusade to eliminate estrogen wherever it lie in wait, compounds such as DIM show us that estrogen is a very diverse set of compounds \u2013 and that we should actively pursue increasing certain estrogens that have beneficial, and ironically, anti-estrogenic effects.<\/P><\/SPAN>","gtin12":"672975315306","image":["https:\/\/siteimgs.com\/10017\/item\/core-nutritionals-hard-ex_1617-0.jpg"],"brand":"Core Nutritionals","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/27946\/core-nutritionals-pineapple-strawberry-28-servings.htm","offers":{"@type":"Offer","priceCurrency":"USD","price":"49.99","url":"https:\/\/www.dpsnutrition.net\/i\/27946\/core-nutritionals-pineapple-strawberry-28-servings.htm","itemCondition":"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewCondition","availability":"http:\/\/schema.org\/InStock"}},{"@type":"Product","name":"Core Nutritionals HMB - 90 Grams","sku":"CU051","description":"
Reduce muscle damage during periods of strenuous exercise.
Increase power output during explosive movements
HMB (otherwise known as \u00df-Hydroxy \u00df-Methylbutyrate) is like the pretty girl who used to sit across from you in biology: sexy, mysterious, but most of all, pretty complex and little understood. And like that girl, the more you actually understand about this fascinating compound, the more you will like it.<\/SPAN><\/P>
Servings Per Container: 90
Amount Per Serving % Daily Value*
Calcium (From Calcium \u00df-Hydroxy \u00df-Methylbutyrate) 130mg 13%
\u00df-Hydroxy \u00df-Methylbutyrate (HMB) \u00df 1000 mg \u2020
(As Calcium \u00df-Hydroxy \u00df-Methylbutyrate Monohydrate) 1000mg \u2020<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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