Put Out the "Fires" Burning Deep in Skeletal Muscle

Up to this point, with the help of LeuceMine®, you’ve successfully minimized muscle damage by providing the blood stream with supplemental glutamine preventing muscle from prematurely dumping glutamine into the blood stream. LeuceMine® also supplied muscles with an alternative oxidative source of energy – providing muscles with 2 gas tanks of fuel; Tank #1 consisting of glycogen while Tank #2 is loaded with BCAA - (this is an oversimplification).

The use of Nitro-E8® supplied starving muscles with a predigested fat/sodium/carbohydrate free source of much needed nitrogen and amino acids during the most opportunistic “Anabolic Window of Opportunity.” The perfect muscle food!

So what’s left?

It’s a known fact that, during the workout, bodybuilders experience micro tearing of stressed muscle fibers. When muscles are torn during a training session, the contents spill onto adjacent areas. The materials that spill are themselves very corrosive and damaging to neighboring muscle cells. These highly corrosive byproducts leak all over muscle cells, attack and destroy their integrity (which is not the same as a microtear). Thus, the tearing of one cell may cause multiple cells to have their integrity compromised and, if they release their corrosive byproducts, a chain reaction ensues.

What the body needs to do when repairing the exercise-induced micro trauma (microscopic cellular tearing and tethering) is "mop-up" the damaged tissue and "clean-up" the mess. But, during this process, many unstable free-radicals are created forming a chain-reaction that often spirals out of control (analogous to a forest fire!), futher impeding the recovery process. Although the body has a system in place to help keep the "fires" under control (endogenous antioxidant system), this often occurs with a DELAY or lag period in recovery.

AntioxCene® can be the key to reducing the lag time by acting as the ultimate "firefighting team" to put out the "fires" that burn after your training session. This fire (oxidative, free-radical load) needs to be tempered and "put out" before the repair, recovery and adaptive training effect (e.g. muscle growth, strength, endurance/stamina) can be achieved. Ultimately, AntioxCene® is your ally in fighting and quenching the post-workout "fires" in addition to "mopping up" the muscle cellular mess that follows intense training!

Many bodybuilders have underestimated the role which oxidation, free radicals, and inflammation play in RECOVERY and ADAPTATION from exercise/training stress. Reactive oxygen species and nitrogen species are names given to free radicals. A free radical with oxygen in the chemical structure is known as a reactive oxygen species. Reactive nitrogen species have nitrogen. The point is they do the same thing, i.e. damage tissues and every bodybuilder needs to implement a strategy for eradication of FREE Radicals.

AntioxCene® is not only the third and final piece of the recovery puzzle, it’s a bodybuilder’s best strategy!