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Protein is essential to all body tissues for growth, repair and maintenance. Protein is required for making enzymes, antibodies, hormones, and hydrochloric acid.   

Protein power helps the body maintain fluid and electrolyte balance, provide energy and helps the body fight off disease. Proteins provide the building blocks of a cell’s structure needed for organs, blood, muscles, bone, connective tissue and essentially every part of the body.

Protein is the most abundant substance in the body, next to water.

By consuming adequate amounts of quality dietary protein, these powers are made possible. You get protein in a variety of lean meats, fish and poultry.  You also get it from soy, eggs and dairy.  These proteins supply the body with amino acids, the building blocks from which the body can make its own body proteins.

There are essential amino acids and non-essential amino acids.  Foods contain about 20 different ones and more than half of those are non-essential meaning the body can make them itself.

There are nine amino acids that are essential, meaning the body cannot make them and must get them from food.  The body needs these on a daily basis in order to make the non-essential amino acids.

If even one essential amino acid is missing or deficient, it can create a detrimental rippling effect that will be manifested anywhere in the body.

No new body tissue can be made without protein.  Consuming QUALITY protein can have positive effects on the body and play a part in the prevention of chronic diseases such as heart disease, certain types of cancer, and osteoporosis.

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AGE Proteins are an accumulation of cellular sludge.  AGE stands for Advanced Glycation End products.  AGE proteins are formed in the cells as a natural metabolic process of taking in nutrients and getting rid of waste products.

The AGE particles are clumps of proteins.

Conditions such as high sugar intake, blood sugar problems and the aging process generate a greater amount of AGE proteins.

As these proteins clump together in the cells, they act like sludge and simply clog up the cells and prevent normal cellular activities.

AGE particles can also get into the bloodstream.

One of the favorite things Americans like to do is Bar-B-Q their meat.  When  meat is cooked at high temperatures, the AGE particles are formed from the meat protein and when eaten, they go into the bloodstream.

Our kidneys get rid of most of the particles when we are young, but as we get older…30′s to 40′s…or if we have kidney disease, they accumulate in the blood stream.

This then leads to chronic inflammation and all the diseases related to inflammation.

What can you do?  Keep your blood sugar levels under control and be sure to have plenty of anti-oxidants in your diet.

Change how you cook your meat.  The higher the temperatures and the less water used in cooking, the more these AGE proteins are formed.

Cut out the frying, the grilling or broiling of your meat. The AGE proteins will be lower when you boil, steam or slow cook your meat.  Get out the crock pot.

I use and recommend SHAKEE’S VIVIX, the only anti-aging supplement that has been shown to slow AGE protein formation.  It is 10 times more effective than resveratrol alone.

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