"How to Burn Toxins Out of Your Body as You Eat Breakfast*"
This simple ingredient will remove toxins
from your cells and support your immune system.* And it’s the perfect, easy way to start your day…
Normally light and darkness do not coexist together. If you shine a light in a dark room it is not dark anymore.
Similarly health and less-than-optimal health don’t share the same space for very long. You likely understand that your body is designed to be healthy. If you provide it with the raw materials it needs such as healthy foods, exercise, pure water and sleep and avoid toxic influences, it will move away from less-than-optimal health and towards health.
One of the ways your body achieves this is by using antioxidants to limit free radical damage that would undermine your health.
Free radicals are reactive particles that bounce around your cells, damaging everything they touch. They become active (or reactive) due to stress, poor diets, toxins in your environment, and even as a result of the process of metabolism. They accelerate aging.
Fortunately your body has a number of antioxidants that help to sweep up free radicals and neutralize them so they can’t rob you of your good health.
You have an antioxidant network comprised of vitamins, minerals, and special chemicals called thiols (glutathione and alpha-lipoic acid).
But the thiol glutathione seems to have a unique role. It seems to have claimed lead status, and keeps all the other antioxidants in line and performing at peak level.*
Glutathione is one of the most powerful antioxidants in your body. It is present in every one of your cells. It’s different from other antioxidants in that it is actually inside your cells. It can maximize the activity of all the other antioxidants, including vitamins C and E, CoQ10, alpha lipoic acid, and the fresh veggies and fruits you eat every day.*
So the main function of glutathione is to protect your cells and mitochondria from oxidative and peroxidative damage.* As might be expected, the aging process reduces your body’s ability to produce glutathione.*
Since glutathione is so incredibly capable at thwarting those free radicals, you’d think there’d be a big rush to make it into a supplement. And you’d be right.
But glutathione doesn’t appear to be as effective in supplement form as it is in real food.
Most oral glutathione supplements have been shown to be poorly absorbed and a waste of your hard-earned money. And ironically, glutathione supplements may actually interfere with your body’s own ability to produce glutathione naturally over time.
How to Boost Your Glutathione Levels Naturally
If you can enhance internal glutathione production, you’ll strengthen your immune system in a way that shields you from many of the adverse effects of aging.*
How can you do that?
One way to boost your glutathione levels is to get plenty of exercise – because exercise affects your adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels, and you need ATP to produce glutathione. That’s a major reason exercise is so beneficial to your health.
There’s also some evidence that vitamin D increases intracellular glutathione levels.
How about actual foods with glutathione?
Foods that Promote Glutathione…
Yes, certain foods do promote glutathione production…
One important thing to remember though…
Keeping your glutathione levels up is a matter of increasing factors that boost your glutathione and decreasing factors that lower it. Chemicals, toxins, and sugar will deplete your glutathione very quickly.
What foods increase it?
Certain foods, such as raw milk products, raw eggs, and meat contain high concentrations of the precursor amino acids that your body uses to make glutathione. The highest levels of these precursor amino acids actually occur in fresh, uncooked meats and raw milk, but is almost entirely absent in pasteurized dairy products.
Fresh fruits and vegetables provide excellent glutathione, but once cooked, values become negligible. Spinach, potatoes, asparagus, avocado, squash, okra, cauliflower, broccoli, walnuts, garlic, and tomatoes are the highest plant sources of these important amino acid precursors.
The herb milk thistle is an excellent source of the antioxidant compound silymarin, which may help prevent glutathione depletion in your liver. Glutathione is crucial in the liver for detoxification and can become depleted by alcohol consumption and general toxic overload.*
Curcumin may also be useful for increasing glutathione levels.
Top Pick of Glutathione-Enhancing Foods
But the overall top food for maximizing your glutathione is high quality whey protein. It must be cold pressed whey protein derived from grass fed cows, and free of hormones, chemicals, and sugar.
Quality whey provides all the key amino acids for glutathione production (cysteine, glycine and glutamate) and contains a unique cysteine residue (glutamylcysteine) that is highly bioactive in its affinity for converting to glutathione.
Glutamylcysteine is a bonded cysteine molecule (cysteine plus glutamate) that naturally occurs in Bovine Serum Albumin – a fragile immune component of whey. This unique cysteine is exclusive to whey and rarely appears in other protein foods – which makes whey protein the best glutathione-promoting food source.*
Furthermore, whey provides critical co-factors, immunoglobulins, lactoferrin and alpha Lactalbumin (also a great source of cysteine), which together help create the right metabolic environment for high glutathione activity.*
Why Supplement Your Diet with an All-Natural Whey Protein Powder?
Particularly as you age, your body gradually loses its ability to produce critical amino acids -- the essential proteins you need for energy production, immune actions and protein buildup in the muscle.
Therefore, the need to supplement with these amino acids increases as you get older and increases even more in times of high physical stress, like after a workout, or when recovering from injury or illness.
That's where whey protein comes in...
Whey protein contains all the essential amino acids*. Plus it boasts the highest protein quality rating among all proteins. Thus, it is a complete protein.
Whey protein is a by-product of the cheese manufacturing process. At one time it was discarded or used for animal feed, but researchers later realized whey protein has incredible benefits for humans.
High-quality whey protein can have dramatic effects. Benefits include:
Supports your immune health*
Boosts your energy*
Supports your joint and muscle health*
Supports your beneficial gut bacteria*
Promotes your muscle strength, endurance and recovery*
Protects all your tissues' cells via its antioxidant properties*
Provides critical amino acids and proteins for overall optimal health*
Supports your body's optimal metabolic rate and fat burning level*
You can quickly see why whey protein is so beneficial for anyone living an active lifestyle.
Personally, I enjoy drinking shakes from whey protein powder -- there's no better way to greet the day or finish a workout than with a tasty cold protein shake.
To boost the protein content even further, I sometimes add two organic, free-range eggs that I purchase from a local farmer. It’s an excellent post-workout meal… it keeps me going all morning.
But, finding a protein powder that contains the right proteins, in the most effective blend, with the most nutritionally beneficial outcomes, ANDactually tastes good can be a real challenge...
Truly High-Quality Whey Protein Powder is Hard to Find
In fact, it can be downright impossible.
Perhaps you've done what I've done, and tried just about every brand out there... and you also questioned the same sorts of things I did:
What are all those random ingredients?
How do I know it contains the best proteins I really need?
Why does it contain so many artificial sweeteners?
How can I determine where the protein powder came from (e.g., are the cows grain fed or grass fed, hormonally treated or organic, and so on)?
What's the difference between heat and cold processing and how does it affect the protein powder?
Should I choose protein isolates or a concentrate?
Do I need to be concerned about heavy metal levels in the protein powder?
... and the questions go on and on!
What's the most challenging part of finding a quality whey protein powder? Most brands out there don't actually give you answers to any of these questions.
That's why it's important for you to know why...
Not All Whey Powders are Equal
In my research, I've learned a tremendous amount about the available whey protein powders on the market. I was shocked by what I discovered and I think you will be, too.
For starters, many commercially-available whey protein powders are significantly damaged and nutritionally deficient due to over-processing and because the original source of the whey is compromised.
Plus, some popular leading brands of protein powder may contain dangerous levels of heavy metals. A recent Consumer Reports’ test showed that 3 of the 15 protein drinks tested contained risky levels of arsenic, cadmium, and lead.
This all means that before you've even opened the container, you're in trouble. And that's just not right. That's why I created a list that comparesdo's and don'ts when choosing a quality whey protein powder.
Do yourself a favor... Check out this list and make sure you're buying a whey protein powder that has all nine of these qualities needed to be a real winner...
The 9 Essentials to Look For in Your Whey Protein Powder
All-natural, grass fed cows' whey, NOT pesticide-treated, grain-fed cows' whey
Compared to grain-fed cows, grass fed cows produce whey that:
Is nutritionally superior to grain fed
Contains an impressive amino acid and immuno-supportive nutrient profile
Is rich in healthy fats--lipolic acid and CLA (conjugated linoleic acid)
Hormone-free Cows, NOT hormonally-treated cows
Many American dairy farmers inject the hormone rBGH in dairy cows to increase milk production. This hormone has been linked to serious disease and illness, including cancer. Choose whey made from hormone-free cows.
Cold processed, NOT heat processed
Most whey is heat processed which:
Makes the whey acidic and nutritionally deficient
Damages the immuno-supportive micronutrients and amino acids
Makes whey inadequate for consumption
Acid-free processing, NOT Acid / Ion Exchange Processing
Acid / Ion Exchange Processing is cheaper than acid-free processing, but it denatures the amino acid profiles by using acids and chemicals to separate the whey from the fats.
Whey protein concentrate, NOT protein isolates
Protein isolates are proteins stripped away from their nutritional cofactors. There are three problems with that...
All isolates are exposed to acid processing.
Your body cannot assimilate proteins in isolated form.
Due to over-processing, isolates are deficient in key amino acids and nutritional cofactors.
Sweetened naturally, NOT artificially, and low carb
Most whey products are artificially sweetened making them useless if you have sugar sensitivities, or just don't want to put artificial sweeteners or flavors into your body.
Your whey should be low glycemic, low carb and should not contain any artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohol, glycerin, fructose, sugar or gluten.
Maximum biological value, NOT compromised or damaged
Most whey proteins provide some benefit. But, due to the ingredients, the source of the whey, the concentration of beneficial nutrients, or the type of processing, many whey products simply don't deliver what they promise.
You want whey that's guaranteed to retain its maximum biological value -- one with all the key amino acids, cofactors and beneficial micronutrients present and intact rather than compromised or damaged, and not missing any amino acids or essential nutrients.
Easy to Digest, NOT Causing Digestive Stress
Many whey products contain long-chain fatty acids which are hard to digest and require bile acids to absorb.
You want a whey protein powder with medium chain triglycerides (MCT). These are easily absorbed, digested quickly, and utilized as energy without causing digestive stress.
Ideally, you want a product in which the MCT come from the best source of all -- coconut oil.
- Free from Toxic Heavy Metals or at Such Low Levels NOT to be a Health Risk
Cold processed whey protects the nutrients in their natural state.
Many protein powders both whey and non-whey could contain dangerous levels of heavy metals like mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic.
A recent Consumer Reports’ evaluation showed some leading brands of protein powders exceeded United States Pharmacopoeia’s (USP) recommended safety limits for certain heavy metals.
You want to avoid these products at all costs because any high concentration of heavy metals taken over time could lead to serious health consequences.
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