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Folic Acid – Is Your Body Using It Or Is It Benign?

First off, congratulations if you understood my pun.  Folic acid or Folate is also known as vitamin B9.  The name ...

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Metabolic Flexibility: What It Is, and How Can You Improve Yours!

The ability to switch between glucose and fats (our two major energy sources) based on the foods we consume and ...

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Shopping Guidelines: Meat & Dairy

Grocery shopping can be a daunting task. Organic, cage-free, grass-fed, non-GMO, certified, fortified, petrified…there are so many choices and so ...

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Glycine

Glycine is unique in that it is the most simple amino acid and makes a base-building block for many other ...

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What Carbs Are Best For Gaining Muscle and Losing Fat?

Muscles store carbohydrates exclusively as glycogen, which is basically a long chain of glucose molecules linked together. The level of ...

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Fat Loss: What Happens & How It Works (Part 1)

Fat loss is the ever-elusive conquest of anyone and everyone who is into health and fitness. Observationally I also think ...

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Taurine

Taurine is one of the best amino acids to help improve muscle soreness because it helps to push glutamate conversion to GABA.  This means you go from catabolic, to anabolic faster.  The best way to use taurine is 2-5g after workouts and before bed.  It is a calming amino acid, so don’t use too much if you train first thing in the AM.  You need to make sure your diet consist of ample vitamin B6 and glutamine to get these benefits as well.  Taurine is also a universal detoxifier used by the liver and helps cell membranes regulate electrolyte balance in vs. outside the cell.  This means you can control the pH of your cells better.  If you have trouble restoring pH balance in your body, taurine can be added to an alkalizing program between meals.