The Health Benefits of Eggplant & Advantages Of Eggplant Extract In Stemulite Fitness Formula

(THP) The eggplant is considered to originate from India where it grew wild, and was first cultivated in China. It was introduced into Europe during the Middle Ages by the Moors where it soon became popular.

Thomas Jefferson, who happened to be an experimental botanist, introduced eggplant to the United States in 1806.

It’s called eggplant in America, aubergine in Europe, and brinjal in South Africa.

The eggplant has a had a bad rap in the past as being poisonous and detrimental to health. It was believed by superstitious Europeans to induce insanity, and the fact it belongs to the Deadly Nightshade family of plants has done nothing to enhance its dubious reputation.

China is the world’s leading producer, followed by Japan, Turkey, and Italy. The leading U.S. producer is Florida.

Health Benefits of Eggplant

Nutrients Eggplant is an excellent source of dietary fiber. It’s a very good source of vitamins B1, B6 and potassium. It’s a good source of copper, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, niacin, and folic acid.

Glycemic Index (GI) In a study to determine the GI of various vegetables, it was concluded that eggplant has a low GI of 15.

Cholesterol Eggplant has been used as a cholesterol-lowering agent, and there are some studies to support that claim. There are however other studies that do not support the use of eggplant extract as a cholesterol lowering agent. Further research is needed to establish its effectiveness in lowering cholesterol.

Antioxidant Cell membranes are almost entirely composed of lipids and are responsible for protecting the cell from free radicals, letting nutrients in and wastes out. Lipid peroxidation is the process whereby free radicals damage cells by stealing electrons from the lipids in cell membranes. Findings from research at the University of California suggest that nasunin, an anthocyanin from eggplant peels, is a potent antioxidant and free-radical scavenger, and has protective activity against lipid peroxidation.

Diabetes The National Diabetes Education Program of NIH, Mayo Clinic and American Diabetes Association recommend an eggplant based diet as a choice for management of type 2 diabetes. The rationale for this suggestion is the high fiber and low soluble carbohydrate content of eggplant.

Cancer Angiogenesis is the formation of new blood vessels and is a normal process in growth and in wound healing. Angiogenesis also plays an important role in the growth and spread of cancer by feeding the cancer cells with oxygen and nutrients. In a study at the Department of Nutritional Science in Japan, it was established that nasunin, the antioxidant from eggplant peels, is an angiogenesis inhibitor, and might be useful to prevent angiogenesis-related diseases. Other studies have demonstrated that antioxidant anthocyanins found in eggplant skin and other plants show inhibitory effects on the growth of some cancer cells.

Nutrient Values of Eggplant per 100g
Calories 35kcal	Energy Value 147kj	Total Fat 0.23g	Carbohydrates 8.73g	Sugars 3.20g
Dietary Fiber 2.5g	Protein 0.83g	Sodium 1mg	Zinc 0.12mg	Potassium 123mg
Iron 0.25mg	Magnesium 11mg	Copper 0.059mg	Calcium 6mg	Vitamin C 1.3mg
Vitamin E 0.41mg	Vit. B3 (Niacin) 0.600mg	Vitamin B6 0.086mg	Vit. B1 (Thiamin) 0.076mg	Vit. B2 (Riboflavin) 0.020mg

Eggplant should be avoided by individuals suffering from gout.

Eggplant extract is derived from eggplant, which can assist the body in the above mentioned health benefits. To learn more about eggplant extract in Stemulite and how it works click here>>

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2. Benders’ Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology.
3. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.
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6. Azevedo L, Alves de Lima PL, Gomes JC, Stringheta PC, Ribeiro DA, Salvadori DM. Differential response related to genotoxicity between eggplant (Solanum melanogena) skin aqueous extract and its main purified anthocyanin (delphinidin) in vivo. Food Chem Toxicol. 2007 May;45(5):852-8. PMID: 17194516.
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Free Yourself From Those Radicals With Anti-Oxidants In Stemulite Fitness Formula

(THP) We’re still talking biology, not politics, but the free radicals in our body deserve a counter-campaign in the form of anti-oxidants. In this article I’ll explain anti-oxidants and why you should get plenty of them.

Cellular respiration is the process in which we break down glucose into water and carbon dioxide, releasing energy. This occurs deep in our cells in the mitochondria, the “generator” for cellular energy. Along the way, packets of energy called “electrons” are passed along a complex chain of chemical steps, eventually producing an energy storehouse known at adenosine-triphosphate (ATP).

As these electrons are passed along, some chemicals give up electrons, which is oxidation, and some accept electrons, which is reduction. This constant reduction-oxidation (redox) process is “cellular respiration.” The energy stored as ATP is later used to power the bodily functions.

The problem begins when some of these electrons escape the normal chain of events and react with ambient oxygen, creating toxic oxygen free radicals. These are very unstable and aggressively react with other molecules in the cell. Like sparks flying out of a fire, the free radicals damage whatever is in the immediate area. Sometimes this is the cell wall, or critical enzymes and proteins in the cell, or even the cellular DNA.

There are also free radicals that come from outside our body, such as hydrocarbons, pesticides, smog, cigarette smoke and metals like lead and mercury.

Anti-oxidants donate an electron to neutralize and “snuff out” free radicals. The anti-oxidant sacrifices itself as it then becomes oxidized and must be replenished. We have a tremendous built in system of anti-oxidants and get many more through or diet. Our “built-in” anti-oxidant systems fade with normal aging and our diets do not provide the amounts of anti-oxidants necessary to prevent oxidative damage.

Once the process of oxidation begins to overwhelm our ability to stop it, the damage begins, and along with it the process of degenerative diseases and aging.

Anti-oxidants like super-oxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione and n-acetyl cysteine (NAC) are made within our bodies, while others must be obtained through diet, such as Vitamins A, C, E and the many bioflavonoids from fruit and vegetable sources. Minerals like selenium, manganese, copper and zinc are not anti-oxidants but are a vital part of the systems.

It is critical to appreciate that anti-oxidants work in different parts of the body. For example, CoEnzyme Q works deep in the mitochondria helping with the electron transfers. Vitamin E and pomegranate are two that love fats and work well in fat areas like cell membranes and cholesterol plaque. Vitamin C and glutathione love water and work in the fluid portions of the cell.

Anti-oxidants also work in different ways. CoQ is an anti-oxidant, but it also regenerates Vitamin E. Alpha-lipoic acid regenerates Vitamin C which then regenerates Vitamin E. Vitamin C and E along with selenium help Vitamin A to function properly.

All this interaction between anti-oxidants underscores a very important concept in supplementation – they work together. Getting a broad spectrum of nutrients, like that found in nature, is an essential part of supplementation.

Many studies on anti-oxidants are short-sighted and limited to studying only one anti-oxidant without even considering its overall role in nature. For example, giving only one of the eight forms of Vitamin E, which we know will deplete one of the other forms, leads to negative effects that may well outweigh any positive benefit from supplementing the singular form.

Another example is a recent study showing Vitamin A supplementation increases lung cancer risk in smokers – without considering the possible effects of exhausting the supply of other co-factors with Vitamin A like Vitamins C, E and selenium. If the same study had supplemented these known co-factors the outcome may have proven much different.

Nutrition is our first medicine but nutrition alone is not adequate for most of us, requiring the logical use of supplements. We now have reviewed the normal process of oxidation in the body, which clearly plays a primary role in the process of aging and development of degenerative diseases. Understanding that oxidation is a far more complex process than any one anti-oxidant can handle leads us to appreciate why taking a broad-spectrum of anti-oxidants is absolutely critical.

The “evil-twin” of oxidation is inflammation and in my next column I’ll explore its damaging effects and how we can successfully combat inflammation.

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Author – Scott Rollins, M.D., is board certified with the American Board of Family Practice and the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. He specializes in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement, thyroid disorders, fibromyalgia and other complex medical conditions.

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Firm Up Arms With These Exercises – Stemulite Assists In Building Muscle

(THP) People with flabby arms tend to dread the spring and summer seasons because the warmer months call for sleeveless shirts and bathing suits. Having flabby arms gives you three options. You could just accept the fact that you have flabby arms and wear a sleeveless shirt anyway. The other way is to cover your arms all summer long even when it might mean sweating or extreme discomfort. Of course, you can also choose to do something about it by trying exercises for flabby arms.

Fat Reduction

There is no point in doing exercises for flabby arms if you have so much fat in that area that you are not going to be able to see the muscles you build. So you will need to drop you body fat at the same time you are doing exercises for flabby arms. The easiest way to reduce body fat is to burn off more calories than you consume each day. Cut back on high calorie foods and do at least thirty minutes of cardio vascular exercise three times per week if you want to reduce your body fat. With regular exercise and a sensible weight loss diet you should be able to lose two pounds per week. Bear in mind that the more overweight you are the longer it will take you to get rid of your flabby arms.

Numerous Options

When a person has flabby arms their triceps are usually lacking in muscle tone. Therefore all exercises for flabby arms involve toning the triceps. The only equipment you will need to tone your triceps is a set of five pound dumbbells. You can use the dumbbells to do exercises for flabby arms at home. Kickbacks and extensions most often work best. You should do sets of ten at least thee times a week. Another option is to do exercises for flabby arms at your local gym using various machines that are meant to tone the upper body. Also, you can perform pull ups. Swimming or using a rowing machine can also do a lot to tone up flabby arms.

Don’t Expect Overnight Results

If you take the appropriate measures to reduce body fat and do various exercises for flabby arms you will eventually notice results. However, do not expect to have toned looking arms immediately. It may take months of sensible eating, cardiovascular exercises and resistance work on your triceps before you start to notice the results. The flabbier your arms are the longer it is going to take to tone them up. The trick is to never give up or let yourself get discouraged just because you don’t get immediate results. If you keep trying then at some point you will reach your objective.

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LIVING HEALTHY: Walking Off Weight

Walking can build muscle to speed up your metabolism, cut your risk of heart disease, breast cancer, colon cancer, diabetes and stroke. Isn’t it time to work walks into your busy lifestyle?

By: Donna & Bryan Pesta, Living North Magazine

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Fitness News: Weight Training Maintains Strength, Cuts Injuries

(THP) With the increasingly hectic pace at which we live our lives, there has never been a better time to include strength training in our exercise programs. Working out with weights or doing resistance activities offers a whole host of benefits, from improved muscle tone to increased energy and bone density.

In fact, no matter how busy you are, with all the health benefits it provides, you can’t afford not to strength train.

• Maintains strength. Everything we do requires bodily strength. From the simplest movements each day such as eating, to more complex tasks such as lifting and pushing, your body needs strength to move. Following a full-body well-rounded resistance training program helps maintain your ability to carry out everyday tasks without difficulty.

• Reduces risk of injuries. Resistance training not only strengthens the muscles, but strengthens connective tissues such as tendons. Tendon injuries in sports and ordinary activities can be very common, but regular strength training will reduce the likelihood of these injuries.

• Prevents osteoporosis. Impact activities such as walking and jogging are excellent at building bone density in the legs and spine. However, common fracture sites also include the wrists, elbow and shoulder where impact activities have no effect.

The answer is to strengthen the entire skeleton through resistance training, because lifting weights stimulates the skeleton to get thicker and stronger, which help counteract brittle bones.

• Helps weight management. Muscle is a metabolically active tissue, so the more muscle your body has, the more calories you burn. Just one extra pound of muscle equates to burning an extra 50 calories a day.

• Prevents sarcopenia. Sarcopenia is the naturally occurring muscle wastage that happens as we age. Unless we get moving, muscle mass is lost at a rate of 3 percent to 5 percent per decade from age 30 on. However, doing a resistance workout two to three times a week can not only prevent sarcopenia, but can actually reverse it, so it’s never too late to start.

• Is essential for power and speed in sports. Muscle power is a key factor at every level of sports performance. If you do not have good muscular strength, then your ability to run, jump, throw or kick will be reduced.

Resistance training enables athletes to specifically target the muscle groups that are relevant for their sport,helping them become faster and more physically able to cope with the demands of their sports on their bodies

• Helps you feel good. As with any form of exercise, finishing a weight training workout brings about a feeling of well-being and accomplishment, which generates a feeling of confidence and gives you a mental boost.

As I said before, no matter how busy you are, you can’t afford not to spend time strength training.

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- Angie Ferguson is an exercise physiologist from Fort Myers.

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Alpha Lipoic Acid Energizes Mitochondria Function With Stemulite Fitness Formula

(THP) An electrical potential develops across the inner mitochondrial membrane as a result of this movement of electrons. ALA increases the influx of lactate or pyruvate into mitochondrial with corresponding increased O2-*. Energy liberated from these oxidation reactions is then used as the driving force for ATP synthesis. It is clear that factors and conditions that cause mitochondrial dysfunction could severely affect overall cellular metabolism and ultimately, our energy levels and survival.

Each cell in our body comes equipped with its own energy mini-engine. This engine is called mitochrondria and ALA is essential to mitochrondial function. Mitochondria are cellular organelles that act like tiny engines to convert unusable forms of energy (sugar, protein, fat, amino acids, etc) into a usable chemical form known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), so that vital cellular chemical reactions throughout the body can occur. They do this by oxidizing (burning) fuels, such as lipids from the diet, and transporting free electrons liberated from these oxidation reactions through a series of proteins called the “electron transport chain.”
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Alpha Lipoic Acid & L-Carnitine Work Together In Stemulite To Keep You Feeling Younger

(THP) If an acetyl L-carnitine (ALC)/alpha lipoic acid (ALA) combination can reduce exercise-induced oxidative stress that would be good news for athletes, who are particularly vulnerable to such stress. However, because the small scale of this study made it difficult to reach statistically significant conclusions, the results were not submitted for scientific publication, which means they should be interpreted with caution.

Other human studies are also currently under way, but so far there are no published human studies available, although positive studies in animals continue to proliferate. Last year, for example, American researchers demonstrated that alpha lipoic acid (ALA) supplementation in older racehorses reduced the oxidative stress burden even under light training loads, while a number of other animal studies have shown that acetyl L-carnitine (ALC)/ALA supplementation reduces oxidative stress and improves mitochondrial function in a number of tissues, including brain, muscle and heart.

In one of these studies, researchers examined the effects of acetyl L-carnitine (ALC)/alpha lipoic acid (ALA) therapy on aging and hearing in rats, and found that it reduced the normal age-associated deterioration in auditory sensitivity and improved inner ear function. They concluded that these improvements were related to the acetyl L-carnitine (ALC)/ALA combination’s ability to protect and repair age-induced mitochondrial DNA damage, thereby boosting mitochondrial function and improving energy turnover. However, while the initial evidence from animal studies looks extremely promising, the jury is still out as far as humans are concerned.

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Alpha Lipoic Acid – A Potent Force In Stemulite

Your immune system is your body’s defense system against illness and disease.

(THP) WHAT can we do to help our bodies cope better with infectious illnesses?

It definitely helps to have a strong and healthy immune system. Here’s how it works – the immune system is like the security system in your home. This system is continuously monitoring the environment for anything that is out of place, and when an unusual situation is detected, it dispatches the most appropriate defense mechanisms.

The immune system recognizes viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, and mutant cells, and it has a variety of “soldiers” (immune cells such as macrophages, neutrophils and natural killer cells), each with it own weapons and methods of attack to destroy these invaders.

Harmful free radicals and the human immune system

The harmful free radicals from our environment are a major cause of ill-health. These free radicals can come from exposure to the sun’s rays (UV light), pollution, radiation, stress, and poor diet.

Immune cells also suffer from free radical damage. This results in lowered immunity. The good thing is that we are not completely powerless. Antioxidant supplements can help protect our immune system from the damage of free radical “bombardment”.

Antioxidant army

We have our own army of defense against free radicals and they are called antioxidants. Antioxidants have the ability to render free radicals harmless. As long as there are adequate amounts of antioxidants within our bodies to handle the free radicals produced within the cell, there is little or no damage to surrounding tissues.

The body has the ability to make some of its own antioxidants, five of which are Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), Catalase, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Coenzyme Q10 and Glutathione Peroxidase. However, the body may not be able to produce enough antioxidants on its own to neutralize all of the free radicals that are produced.

Although many antioxidants can be obtained from food sources, it is difficult to get enough to hold back free radicals constantly generated in our polluted environment. That is why we need to get the rest of the antioxidants from supplements.

Alpha lipoic acid

Dr Lester Packer, professor of the University of California, Berkeley, department of molecular and cell biology, is among the world’s leading antioxidant researchers and has described alpha lipoic acid as very close to an ideal antioxidant. Alpha lipoic acid can also recharge other antioxidants that have been used up. In the body, it helps regenerate other antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E and glutathione.

In addition to that, alpha lipoic acid is the only antioxidant that can boost the level of intracellular glutathione, a cellular antioxidant of tremendous importance. Besides being the body’s primary water-soluble antioxidant and a major detoxification agent, glutathione is absolutely essential for the functioning of the immune system.

The active ingredients found in standardized extracts of grape seed are Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins (OPCs). Research indicates that OPCs may be 20 to 50 times more potent as an antioxidant than vitamin C and E.

The body produces many types of free radicals – singlet oxygen, superoxides, hydroxyl, hydrogen peroxide, peroxyl, etc, and almost all are damaging to the immune system and other parts of the body. Different antioxidants neutralize different species of free radicals. Hence when it comes to antioxidant supplementation, it makes sense to take a supplement that contains a variety of antioxidants.

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SerraPeptase Reduces Inflammation And Speeds Recovery With Stemulite Fitness Formula

(THP) SerraPeptase flushes off congregated waste protein and naturally eases minor pain and inflammation from overexertion or everyday activities by breaking down extraneous fibrin, mucus and other inflammatory compounds the congregate when the body’s natural repair functions are working. It supports the body’s natural process for both drainage and repairs and therefore thought to be extremely helpful in supporting cardiovascular health.

How SerraPeptase Can Assist Athletes In Extreme Sports Recovery When Taking Stemulite Fitness Formula

SerraPeptase which is found in our supplement can be taken as a preventative before an athletic event to allow the body to immediately begin repair from inflammation caused by extreme workouts or physical traumas. It enters inflamed areas that have been isolated from the body’s circulation, caused by sprain, swelling, or bruises allowing for recovery time to be greatly accelerated. Therefore it is very useful for athletes who incur any type of muscle damage.

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How Alpha Lipoic Acid Increases Muscle Glycogen For Bodybuilding With Stemulite

For Weight Lifting – Body Building – Elite Athletes – & Individuals Who Workout Regularly:

Enhances Glucose Utilization

Enhances Amino Acid Transport

Lowers Blood Sugar

Increases Creatine Uptake

ALA increases your muscles glycogen uptake. This increases muscle cell volume and contributes to that full, pumped feeling when you workout.

This is a very desirable effect as the increase in muscle glycogen also increases other important nutrient transports that contributes to cell volume and muscle growth.

ALA is not a thermogenic but it does appear to contribute to favorable body composition changes. This is believed to be due to a nutrient partitioning effect where nutrients are channeled more to lean tissue and away from fat tissue.

ALA will help enhance the efficiency of many different supplements and pharmaceuticals. It enhances the absorption of creatine into the muscle cell by providing a transport vehicle through its unique ability to mimic insulin.

ALA is also one of the most potent antioxidants available. And, when taken with other antioxidants it actually enhances their antioxidant abilities.

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