Brad King
Member: Sports Nutrition Hall of Fame
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A Canadian-based nutritional researcher, fitness expert and performance nutritionist who holds a masters in nutritional science, and is certified by the International Sports Sciences Association as a master of fitness science and specialist in performance nutrition. |
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Excerpts (sometimes paraphrased) from the book:
Xtreme Health by Brad King
The foundation of optimal
Health, Happiness and Longevity
Are You Too Acidic?
Your overall health-and energy-is completely reliant on your body's second-to-second ability to remain in a slightly alkaline high-oxygen (aerobic) environment.
The truth is that most diseases begin and flourish in an acidic low-oxygen (anaerobic) environment- ESPECIALLY CANCER. (excerpt from page 14)
Environmental Disrupters
From 1940 to 1990, the annual production of synthetic chemicals increased a whopping 600 BILLION pounds per year. 600,000 Americans die a year from cancer and the World Health Organization estimates that at least 80% of all cancers are attributable to environment influences.
The American Cancer Society states that men presently have about a 1 in 2 lifetime risk of developing cancer and women have a 1 in 3 risk. (excerpt from page 15)
Water You Made of?
Your brain and muscles are three-quarters water. Your blood and lungs are more than 80% water. Next to oxygen, water is the most important NUTRIENT for sustaining life. (excerpt from page 20)
Running on Empty
ATP is a universal chemical energy. Nothing in our body runs without it. Water is responsible for providing the primary hydroelectric energy that is stored in ATP. (excerpt from page 22)
All Dried Up?
Our bodies are 70 percent water..and by the age 75-80, you're lucky if you still have 50 percent of your water. Many so-called signs of aging are also signs of and symptoms of chronic dehydration: heartburn, joint pain, headaches, high blood pressure and cholesterol, to name a few.
Somewhere in our evolutionary past, the signals for the hunger and thirst may have crossed wires. In other words, when you feel hungry, you may actually be thirsty.
An obese person often has a body water content of less than 50%.
Only the purest of water is allowed access through special water channels to hydrate cells. (excerpt from page 23-25)
Liquid Candy
One of the best ways to expand your fat cells, prematurely age your body, and erode your health potential is to down a soft drink loaded with sugar, caffeine, and phosphorous.
65.9 billion gallons of soft drink is consumed yearly in the US.
One in every four beverages consumed in America today is a soft drink. (excerpt from page 28-29)
Minerals- What Once Was is No Longer
"Dr. Linus Pauling, the late, two-time Noble Prize winner, said, "You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency. "
Minerals are believed to be the single most important key to our metabolic machinery. Our physical well-being is more directly dependent upon minerals we take into our systems than upon calories or vitamins, or upon the precise proportion of starch, protein, or carbohydrate we consume.
Some minerals also function as ELECTROLYTES (calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium chloride [salt], sulfate, and phosphate, acting as buffering agents that help protect the body's tissues from excess acidity.
Calcium, potassium and iron have diminished quite extensively since 1950.
Calcium is considered the king of minerals.
68% of Americans are deficient in magnesium.
Mineral deficiencies cause radiation-like damage to our cellular blueprint-DNA.
According to research published in the journal Medical Hypothesis, chromium deficiency could also play a role in skin conditions such as acne. (excerpt from page 32-36)
Natures pH Buffers
pH is one of the most important things you need to learn about in terms of health and disease.
Your body will buffer the acidity of your blood at all costs- your body WILL NOT let your blood become acidic and therefore unable to carry oxygen-- or you wouldn't survive. Your body does this buffering by pulling alkaline minerals, ESPECIALLY CALCIUM, from your saliva, soft tissues and bones.
If you continue to eat and drink acid-producing foods and liquids without balancing this with sufficient alkaline foods and liquids, your body will end up pulling way too much calcium from the bones to buffer the excess acidity. (excerpt from page 37-39)
Xooma X2O (Marine Minerals)-- Myth or Magic?
Marine minerals derived from Okinawa, Japan, contain a wide range of macro (especially calcium and magnesium) and trace minerals (more than 70.) When pure marine minerals are added to purified or distilled water known as X2O, the minerals can be ionized efficiently and made available to your body. This means the mineral oxides are released in the water to form hydroxide ions (OH-), which increases the pH of the water.
The real potential of marine minerals is only unlocked when the minerals are activated first by water-- has a very alkaline pH of about 9.9. aiding in the body's removal of excess acids and thereby helping improve overall health.
To evaluate the quality of a marine mineral complex, you need to see its effects on the water's pH, surface tension (in dynes), and change in (-) millivolts (the higher the negative number, the better.)
Marine water is highly alkaline and health-promoting to the body. This new health status works to deliver more oxygen to the body's trillions of cells and in the process help to maintain peak efficiency and overall health. (excerpt from page 42-43)
Xooma X2O Blast --Introducing the Other Side of Coffee
Coffee-Berry extract is available in a 100% natural water flavoring product called X2O Blast, which contains 3000 ORAC* Units per serving.
Studies from the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston suggest that most people consume approximately 1,670 ORAC Units daily. When study participants increased their fruits and vegetables intake to 10 servings a day, they were able to raise their ORAC values to between 3,300 and 3,500 ORAC Units-- or just a little over the established ORAC levels needed to maintain optimum health.
Appearing at the top of the ORAC Units List is a fruit very few people have ever heard about before; it's called Coffeeberry. The only reason we haven't heard about this incredible fruit before is because we didn't have the scientific means in which to properly extract the whole coffee fruit-- all while maintaining its powerful antioxidant and nutritive qualities.
Aside from unsurpassed ORAC values (80,000 Units per 100 Grams, compared to 6,250 for blueberries), the coffeeberry also contains a class of phytonutients called polyphenols, including caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, ferulic acid, quinic acid, and trigonelline, shown to help:
- Feeling tired when it is not the result of strenuous work
- maintain brain health and memory function
- reduce inflammation
- reduce the incidence of coronary disease
- lower cholesterol and high blood pressure
- inhibit the formation of kidney stones and urinary tract infections
- aid in sugar metabolism and type 2 diabetes management
- reduce cancer risk
- reduce skin aging
- and provide health benefits associated with metabolic syndrome, depression, anxiety, and oral health. (excerpt from page 50-52)
*ORAC: Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity is a well-accepted way of measuring the total ANTIOXIDANT PROTECTION of food.