You should exercise. There is copious amounts of data that shows exercise in any of its many, wondrous forms can reduce your likelihood of life-threatening illnesses like cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer, but if you can’t exercise, our old cold-bustin’, antioxidant-burstin’ buddy, Vitamin C, may be able to pick up some of theContinue reading “Vitamin C May Provide Similar Vascular Benefits to Exercise”
Author Archives: The AIM Companies
If You’re an Athlete, You May Be Low on These 5 B Vitamins
If you’ve been a sluggard at the gym lately, it may be due to your diet. We’re not talking about a singular chocolate chip cookie eaten greedily behind a copse of trees near the gym. We’re talking about B vitamins. If you’ve been doing high-intensity training, there’s a good chance your body could do with a dash ofContinue reading “If You’re an Athlete, You May Be Low on These 5 B Vitamins”
Why Premium Protein Is Worth Its Weight in Muscle
Anyone can go to their local Everything-Mart and pick up a gigantic tub of whey protein powder for about fifty bucks. It seems like a good deal because, good gosh, that tub is huge and there is just so much protein in it. However, a series of lawsuits have revealed that a lot of theContinue reading “Why Premium Protein Is Worth Its Weight in Muscle”
Cardiovascular Fitness Is One of the Best Indicators of Health at Any Age
Exercise can slow down the aging process according to extensive new research. This is good news for people attempting to commission magical paintings that age for them and those wandering around the gator-filled Florida Everglades looking for youthifying fountains. It may, however, be bad news for plastic surgeons and the makers of fine walking canes. AllContinue reading “Cardiovascular Fitness Is One of the Best Indicators of Health at Any Age”
LeafGreens and Exercise Recovery
Under normal conditions, moderate and even intense exercise is very healthy. It does, however, put a lot of oxidative stress on the body. Oxidative stress has been linked to a lot of nasty things like cardiovascular disease, cancer, kidney problems and more. In the case of exercise, all this is fine because the oxidative stress caused byContinue reading “LeafGreens and Exercise Recovery”
Vitamin D Helps Sports Performance, Heart Health
They call vitamin D “the sunshine vitamin” because it’s one of the few vitamins that you can acquire just by sitting in a turtle-shaped kiddie pool in the backyard or just while being outside in the sunlight generally. Despite being a free vitamin that literally falls right out of the sky, nearly seventy-five percent of American adultsContinue reading “Vitamin D Helps Sports Performance, Heart Health”
5 Reasons to Get More Plant Protein in Your Diet
The World Health Organization recently classified processed meat as a carcinogen because eating a lot of it can increase your risk of colorectal cancer. This means many people around the globe are going to be limiting the amount of processed meats that they’re tossing onto their sandwiches and stuffing into their casseroles. Although protein deficiency doesn’t tend to be aContinue reading “5 Reasons to Get More Plant Protein in Your Diet”
Peak Endurance Infographic
The AIM Companies and its network of worldwide distributors offers a sports drink that stands head and shoulders above the competition. Peak Endurance provides 125 mg of PEAK ATP as well as B vitamins, vitamin C and six essential electrolytes. It works great as a pre-workout, but it can also help you recover from exercise,Continue reading “Peak Endurance Infographic”
ATP Keeps Your Muscles Energized
Around these parts, we like to say that adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the “energy currency of the cells.” This is why, around these parts, we don’t get asked to parties very often (at least not the fun ones). Don’t get me wrong, ATP is that thing we said, and ATP is great. It’s just that explaining how ATP works onContinue reading “ATP Keeps Your Muscles Energized”
Does Exercise Make You Salty?
When you were a child, you might have heard the conspiracy that sport drinks contained salt in order to make the imbiber thirstier. While it’s true that most athletically inclined beverages have sodium, the reason is not to force people to guzzle more. Athletes need it to replenish what was lost in sweat. Of course, sodium is hardlyContinue reading “Does Exercise Make You Salty?”
