SPIRALYNE spirulina tablets | the most nutritious natural wholefood

EXERCISE:

Spiralyne spirulina tablets contain powerful antioxidants. Antioxidants can inhibit the oxidation of other molecules, which is important because oxidation reactions can produce free radicals. And free radicals can cause oxidative stress and damage to DNA, RNA and cell structures.

When you exercise, your oxygen consumption increases more than 10 times¹. Consequently, there is a significant increase in the production of oxidants that can damage cell structures and can contribute to muscular fatigue. Taking spirulina can increase the amount of intense exercise you can do and it may reduce the amount of muscle damage²³thanks to the variety of antioxidants in spirulina.

Spirulina has cardiovascular benefits; it contains the rare essential fatty acid, Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), which promotes good health. According to a clinical trial in Korea, essential fatty acids like Gamma linolenic acid (GLA) can prevent cholesterol from concentrating in the body.

Spirulina can also reduce bad cholesterol. In a study where 15 male volunteers took 4.2 grams of spirulina per day showed a statistically significant reduction of LDL (bad cholesterol) with no significant change in HDL (good cholesterol). Researchers also measured a significant decrease in the atherogenic effect, a measure of fat desposition in arteries⁴.

Spirulina and C-phycocyanin can have a protective and preventative effect on heart attacks^{5 6 7}. Studies have shown spirulina and C-phycoyanin can significantly protect from cardiotoxic effects (studies based on mice)⁸.

Spiralyne spirulina tablets can safely help improve endurance levels.

AMINO ACIDS:

Amino acids can play an important role in exercise, especially the branched-chain amino acids; valine, isoleucine and leucine. The branched-chain amino acids are unique because they are not metabolized in the liver but in the muscle instead, hence the name, ‘muscle aminos’.

Branched-chain amino acids are important as they help muscle under intense training. In an experiment using swimmers, one group was given branched-chain amino acids and the other a placebo. The branched-chain amino acid group experienced less muscle breakdown after intense exercise⁹. Studies show that taking essential amino acids, including branched-chain amino acids, before exercise triggers anabolic processes – the increased blood flow you get from training increases the amino acid entry into muscle.

Branched-chain amino acids can lessen muscle damage during exercise and block what is called delayed-onset muscle soreness following intense training¹⁰. Sixteen women and 14 men took five grams of branched-chain amino acids before doing seven sets of 20-rep squats, resting two minutes between sets. Some of the subjects got a placebo. Those who took the branched-chain amino acids had significantly less soreness than the placebo group; the results were more significant in the male subjects. The researchers think that the results may be a combination the branched-chain amino acids’ decreasing muscle breakdown and leucine’s stimulation of muscle protein synthesis (anabolism).

Spiralyne spirulina tablets contain all the essential amino acids (including branched-chain amino acids).

 

 

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²Peake J (2003). “Vitamin C: effects of exercise and requirements with training“. Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab 13 (2): 125–51. PMID 1294582

³Jakeman P, Maxwell S (1993). “Effect of antioxidant vitamin supplementation on muscle function after eccentric exercise“. Eur J Appl Physiol Occup Physiol 67 (5): 426–30. doi:10.1007/BF00376459. PMID 8299614

⁴Nakaha, N. Y. Homa, Y. Goto. “Cholesterol lowering effect of spirulina“. Nutr. Rep Int. 1988:37:1329-1337

⁵Khan M, Shobha JC, Mohan IK, Naidu MU, Sundaram C, Singh S, Kuppusamy P, Kutala VK (2005) “Protective effect of Spirulina against doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity“. Phytother Res 19(12) 1030-1037

⁶Khan M, Varadharaj S, Shobba JC, Naidu MU, Parinandi NL, Kutala VK, Kuppusamy P (2006) “C-Phycocyanin ameliorates doxorubicin-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis in adult rat cardiomyocytes“. J Cardiovasc Pharmacology 47(1) 9-20.

⁷Khan M, Varadharaj S, Ganesan LP, Shobha JC, Naidu MU et al (2005) “C-phycocyanin protects against ischemia-reperfusion injury of heart through involvement of p38 MAPK and ERK signalling“. Am J Physiol-Heart Circulatory Physiol 290(5) H2136-2145

⁸Mao TK, Van de Water J and Gershwin ME (2000) “Effect of spirulina on the secretion of cytokines from peripheral blood mononuclear cells.” J Med Food 3(3) 135-140

9Tang, F. (2006). “Influence of branched-chain amino acid supplementation on urinary protein metabolite concentrations after swimming.” J Am Coll Nutr. 25:188-94

¹⁰De Palo, E., et al. (2001). “Plasma lactate, GH and GH-binding protein levels in exercise following BCAA supplementation in athletes.” Amino Acids. 20:1-11.