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Win More and Perform Better with Nut Butter!

Shelf-stable, adaptable, and tasty. What’s not to like? Notice: if you’re allergic to nuts, don’t eat nuts or nut butter! If you think you’re allergic to nuts, don’t eat nuts and go get an allergy test. Now.  What is a nut butter? Nut butters are nuts ground into a spreadable paste, similar in consistency to […]

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Vitamin D: Perform better, be stronger, improve mood!

This pro-hormone and essential nutrient doesn’t just regulate bone density any more! How does Vitamin D work? The “classical” actions of vitamin D were discovered and fleshed out between about 1918 and the late 1960s. This “vitamin” is actually a steroid pro-hormone derived from the cholesterol molecule after irradiation with ultraviolet B exposure (sunlight or

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Master Your Habits for Better Sports Performance

Make your habits the best to get the best results! What is a habit? A habit is “when someone is effective in maintain behaviors that have become habitual and are supported by automatic responses to relevant cues.”1 In other words, habits are an ingrained behavior pattern that requires no thought on your part but has a

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Leucine: Perform better and maximize your muscle through diet!

It’s important to get leucine in every meal. What is leucine? Leucine is an amino acid, one of 20 building blocks that commonly show up in human protein structures. It is also one of nine essential amino acids (EAA), in that we can’t make it in our body and so much consume it in our

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Build A Better Peppermint Mocha!

Design one that tastes delicious and will meet your athletic goals. Many coffee shops have sumptuous seasonal drinks, such as the peppermint mocha, designed to tempt the tongue with strong flavors and plenty of holiday sweetness. But they don’t really support either health or performance. How do you adapt them so you can enjoy the

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