Supplement to Veggetarian Diet

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam Everyone,

 

 

I came across some new info on a supplement I used to take and

recently included back into my diet, really two of them.

 

Creatine, and L-Glutamine. The creatine I used specifically for

working out with weights, so when I took a much needed six month rest

that turned into 2 or 3 years, I stopped the creatine. And yes the KY

took the place of lifting for the most part.

 

Fast forward to now. I've started lifting again, albeit much lighter

weight, shorter times, less intense..the head doens't rule anymore.

 

What does creatine do? Helps your muscle contract harder, and longer.

That is you are stronger.

 

Something I noticed though, I feel weaker now that I've been getting

back to working out. Well, ddooohhhh, I also became a vegetarian along

the way, and meat is where we get most of our creatine. So unless you

supplement with creatine, you're body will be weaker, depending on how

you exert yourself during the day.

 

So I read that now creatine is being recommended for just daily

maintenance (2-3gms), especially for seniors and as far as I'm

concerned vegetarians. So I started back last night with the creatine.

 

The L-Glutamine is an essential amino acid, which means your body

doesn't just process it from the food you eat--experts correct me if I

have this wrong--you have to supplement it. What does it do?

It helps the immune system (increases white blood cell count), and

prevents 'muscle wasting'. Muscle wasting is the thing that happens

when our muscles aren't being used for what ever reason.

 

I don't want to jabber on about this but thought it important enough

to share. Both are very helpful, I know from past experience. They are

cheap when bought in bulk, 500 gms and up and safe for your body.

 

One other thing, with creatine drink another litre of water a day or

more and take it with dextrose or high fruit sugar drink, real grape

juice is the best. L-Glutamine, I take about 3.75 gms morning when I

wake up and right before I go to bed, chased with water.

 

If anyone wants more info contact me directly. I have good web links

to buy from, or you can search on Google.

 

Blessings

 

Deva

[Guest guest]

As many athletes will attest, there is nothing missing from the

vegetarian diet. However, there is some interesting research to

ponder. For instance, vitamin B12, which is only very partially

produced in the body of the average westerner, was once thought to be

lacking in vegetarians. However, it was discovered that people who

were vegetarian from birth had no trouble producing this vitamin.

What is happening is that nutritional processes in the body are

primarily catalytic in nature - in other words, it is not the amount

of nutrient that is key, but the ability of the body to receive the

signal and have the biochemical response that produces the

nutrients.Some people need higher amounts of the triggering nutrient

because they are using to have that quantity present. There are also

constitutional differences of course. Take the famous "type O"

person - a heavy meat eater who develops symptoms of protein

deficiency and sulfur toxicity if he doesn't eat meat. The real

problem is that his body is needing huge quantities of animal protein

enzymes to stiumulate protein metabolism in the body! By giving him

enzyme supplements and weaning him off meat, and correcting the

sulfur metabolism problem with homeopathics, his metabolism can

slowly be retrained. Genetics is karma, and the goal is not to repeat

it, but to prevail! Thus some people have to work at it. So....using

supplements to adjust to the change in diet is often necessary - as

in your case. Eventually your metabolism will change and you won't

need so much supplementation. For instance, from a yoga point of

view, the precursor of all nutrients is prana. As you learn to

metabolise prana more efficiently nutritional processes in the body

also improve. This is one of the reasons sun salutations can be very

strengthening to the physical body, for instance. Done slowly,

holding the breath in and out, together with the exercises and the

movements, stimulates the pranic body and allows for a strong flow of

prana to all the muscles.

 

Be well.