Back at the training and building it up. Yesterdays long progression run and a hard swim with 1 of the mainsets being 24x50m on 20sec rest, fast, well a step up from fast pace, more like angry pace. This morning was a great brick workout with some hard intervals, and then a run off the bike. Luckily i called upon the Hemp magic for recovery. Last night i blended up some recovery pudding, with blueberries, bananas, hemp protein, carob powder and some other goodies like almonds and flax seed. Later on i will swim, then head to Chances to Grill out and watch the tour. I have been really getting sick of all of the rice and quinoa i have been eating lately, so it may be a mushroom burger depending on how the swim goes. Tomorrow will be some solid training, and a bike fit after dinner which may take most of the evening up but at least i will be able to get some things figured out. I will post more about that and the pictures from that come Friday.
Since cutting caffeine and other horrible foods out of my diet i have felt great. I am trying to become more aware with my bodies signals and trying to limit the stress that i put on my body.
Since adding a few nutritional super foods into my diet i have felt great, and i no longer crave sugars in the afternoon. Chlorella is a solid addition to my diet.
Here is some info on why it is solid, that i stole from a website so feel free to read. I will also post a great email from Cousin Ben about his Mudslide experience.
Health Benefits Of Chlorella
Heavy metal removal using chlorella
Chlorella is a powerful detoxification aid for heavy metals and other pesticides. Numerous research projects in the U.S. and Europe indicate that chlorella can also aid the body in breaking down persistent hydrocarbon and metallic toxins such as mercury, cadmium and lead, DDT and PCB while strengthening the immune system response. In Japan, interest in chlorella has focused largely on its detoxifying properties - its ability to remove or neutralize poisonous substances from the body.
This detoxification of heavy metals and other chemical toxins in the blood will take 3 to 6 months to build up enough to begin this process depending on how much chlorella a person is taking. Chlorella is a food. As such, it is almost impossible to take too much chlorella. It is also this fibrous material which greatly augments healthy digestion and overall digestive track health.
How Does Chlorella Detoxify Your Body?
Chlorella is comprised of a fibrous, indigestible outer shell (20%) and its inner nutrients (80%). It is the fibrous material which has been proven to actually bind with the heavy metals and pesticides - such as PCBs - which can accumulate in our bodies.
A clean bloodstream, with an abundance of red blood cells to carry oxygen, is necessary to a strong natural defense system. Chlorella's cleansing action on the bowel and other elimination channels, as well as its protection of the liver, helps keep the blood clean. Clean blood insures that metabolic wastes are efficiently carried away from the tissues.
Chlorella gets its name from the high amount of chlorophyl it possesses. Chlorella contains more chlorophyl per gram than any other plant. Chlorophyl is one of the greatest food substances for cleansing the bowel and other elimination systems, such as the liver and the blood.
Green algae are the highest sources of chlorophyl in the plant world. And of all the green algae studied so far, chlorella has the highest, often ranging from 3 to 5% pure natural chlorophyll.
Chlorella is a key detoxification tool
Hemoglobin is the protein in our red blood cells which binds with oxygen and gives blood its bright red color. Chlorophyll cells are nearly identical to hemoglobin, with one exception: Chlorophyll has a magnesium molecule at its center while hemoglobin has an iron molecule at the center of it. This is important because magnesium is essential for the heart to function properly. Every time our heart beats, it is utilizing magnesium to do so.
Chlorophyll is effective against anemia and stimulates the production of red blood cells in the body. It also helps carry oxygen around the body and to the brain. This is why chlorella is often called a 'Brain Food'.Several researchers have suggested the use of chlorophyll as a medical therapy for anemia.
Chlorella Will Improve Your Digestive System
Since chlorella has such a high chlorophyll content, people find chronic bad breath is often eliminated in just a few days on chlorella. Foul smelling stools are also greatly improved and chlorophyll has been attributed to relieving constipation.
Chlorella Shown To Be Helpful in Fighting Cancer
Interferon is one of our body's greatest natural defenses against cancer. One of the ways we fight cancer is to use agents to stimulate macrophage production and activity. Interferon is a natural secretion of the body which is thought to be a stimulator of macrophages and tumor necrosis factor.
Chlorella stimulates the activity of macrophages and T-cells by increasing interferon levels thus enhancing the immune system's ability to combat foreign invaders whether they are viruses, bacteria, chemicals or foreign proteins.
Chlorella Contains Natural Digestive and other Enzymes
Chlorella contains enzymes such as chlorophyllase and pepsin, which are two digestive enzymes. Enzymes perform a number of important functions in the body. Chlorella has many different types of enzymes that our bodies need.
It is essential that any chlorella you take is NOT freeze dried or pasteurized. If it is, then you have lost the crucial benefit of enzymes such as these.
Chlorella is Alkaline and Helps Balance Your Body's pH
It's important that we maintain a balance body pH of ideally about 7.2-7.4, which is about neutral. However, because of our poor diet of junk food, overcooked, processed foods, fast food, which include soft drinks which have a pH of 2.7, most of us are not balanced.
This is important because most diseases start, live and thrive in an acidic environment and do not live well in an alkaline environment. Cancer rates have risen steadily so that now fully 1/3 of all people in the U. S. will get cancer in their lifetime.
The rise of fast, junk and processed foods match those of rising cancer rates. 30 years ago, cancer in children was almost unheard of. Now they have entire hospital wards given over to children with cancer. Including whole foods like chlorella in your diet is one step you can take toward reducing your risks for cancer.
Chlorella Normalizes Blood Sugar and Blood Pressure
Studies have shown that chlorella tends to normalize blood sugar in cases of hypoglycemia. In hypoglycemia, blood sugar is too low. Proper levels of blood sugar are necessary for normal brain function, heart function and energy metabolism, all of which are crucial in sustaining good health and preventing disease.
High blood pressure is one of the major risk factors in heart attack and stroke, which account for more fatalities in the United States than any other disease. Laboratory experiments have shown that regular use of chlorella reduces high blood pressure and prevents strokes in rats.
You can find the best price on the internet for high quality chlorella here . I encourage you to compare with other merchants on the internet and you will see what I mean.
The pillars of a good mercury detoxification program are chlorella, N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), MSM and the herb cilantro, which is discussed here. My favorite source for organic cilantro in 1 pound bags is here. Garlic is also a good mercury chelator.
Next, let's look at how much chlorella you should take per day for mercury detoxification.
Health Benefits Of Chlorella
Heavy metal removal using chlorella
Chlorella is a powerful detoxification aid for heavy metals and other pesticides. Numerous research projects in the U.S. and Europe indicate that chlorella can also aid the body in breaking down persistent hydrocarbon and metallic toxins such as mercury, cadmium and lead, DDT and PCB while strengthening the immune system response. In Japan, interest in chlorella has focused largely on its detoxifying properties - its ability to remove or neutralize poisonous substances from the body.
This detoxification of heavy metals and other chemical toxins in the blood will take 3 to 6 months to build up enough to begin this process depending on how much chlorella a person is taking. Chlorella is a food. As such, it is almost impossible to take too much chlorella. It is also this fibrous material which greatly augments healthy digestion and overall digestive track health.
How Does Chlorella Detoxify Your Body?
Chlorella is comprised of a fibrous, indigestible outer shell (20%) and its inner nutrients (80%). It is the fibrous material which has been proven to actually bind with the heavy metals and pesticides - such as PCBs - which can accumulate in our bodies.
A clean bloodstream, with an abundance of red blood cells to carry oxygen, is necessary to a strong natural defense system. Chlorella's cleansing action on the bowel and other elimination channels, as well as its protection of the liver, helps keep the blood clean. Clean blood insures that metabolic wastes are efficiently carried away from the tissues.
Chlorella gets its name from the high amount of chlorophyl it possesses. Chlorella contains more chlorophyl per gram than any other plant. Chlorophyl is one of the greatest food substances for cleansing the bowel and other elimination systems, such as the liver and the blood.
Green algae are the highest sources of chlorophyl in the plant world. And of all the green algae studied so far, chlorella has the highest, often ranging from 3 to 5% pure natural chlorophyll.
Chlorella is a key detoxification tool
Hemoglobin is the protein in our red blood cells which binds with oxygen and gives blood its bright red color. Chlorophyll cells are nearly identical to hemoglobin, with one exception: Chlorophyll has a magnesium molecule at its center while hemoglobin has an iron molecule at the center of it. This is important because magnesium is essential for the heart to function properly. Every time our heart beats, it is utilizing magnesium to do so.
Chlorophyll is effective against anemia and stimulates the production of red blood cells in the body. It also helps carry oxygen around the body and to the brain. This is why chlorella is often called a 'Brain Food'.Several researchers have suggested the use of chlorophyll as a medical therapy for anemia.
Chlorella Will Improve Your Digestive System
Since chlorella has such a high chlorophyll content, people find chronic bad breath is often eliminated in just a few days on chlorella. Foul smelling stools are also greatly improved and chlorophyll has been attributed to relieving constipation.
Chlorella Shown To Be Helpful in Fighting Cancer
Interferon is one of our body's greatest natural defenses against cancer. One of the ways we fight cancer is to use agents to stimulate macrophage production and activity. Interferon is a natural secretion of the body which is thought to be a stimulator of macrophages and tumor necrosis factor.
Chlorella stimulates the activity of macrophages and T-cells by increasing interferon levels thus enhancing the immune system's ability to combat foreign invaders whether they are viruses, bacteria, chemicals or foreign proteins.
Chlorella Contains Natural Digestive and other Enzymes
Chlorella contains enzymes such as chlorophyllase and pepsin, which are two digestive enzymes. Enzymes perform a number of important functions in the body. Chlorella has many different types of enzymes that our bodies need.
It is essential that any chlorella you take is NOT freeze dried or pasteurized. If it is, then you have lost the crucial benefit of enzymes such as these.
Chlorella is Alkaline and Helps Balance Your Body's pH
It's important that we maintain a balance body pH of ideally about 7.2-7.4, which is about neutral. However, because of our poor diet of junk food, overcooked, processed foods, fast food, which include soft drinks which have a pH of 2.7, most of us are not balanced.
This is important because most diseases start, live and thrive in an acidic environment and do not live well in an alkaline environment. Cancer rates have risen steadily so that now fully 1/3 of all people in the U. S. will get cancer in their lifetime.
The rise of fast, junk and processed foods match those of rising cancer rates. 30 years ago, cancer in children was almost unheard of. Now they have entire hospital wards given over to children with cancer. Including whole foods like chlorella in your diet is one step you can take toward reducing your risks for cancer.
Chlorella Normalizes Blood Sugar and Blood Pressure
Studies have shown that chlorella tends to normalize blood sugar in cases of hypoglycemia. In hypoglycemia, blood sugar is too low. Proper levels of blood sugar are necessary for normal brain function, heart function and energy metabolism, all of which are crucial in sustaining good health and preventing disease.
High blood pressure is one of the major risk factors in heart attack and stroke, which account for more fatalities in the United States than any other disease. Laboratory experiments have shown that regular use of chlorella reduces high blood pressure and prevents strokes in rats.
You can find the best price on the internet for high quality chlorella here . I encourage you to compare with other merchants on the internet and you will see what I mean.
The pillars of a good mercury detoxification program are chlorella, N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), MSM and the herb cilantro, which is discussed here. My favorite source for organic cilantro in 1 pound bags is here. Garlic is also a good mercury chelator.
Next, let's look at how much chlorella you should take per day for mercury detoxification.
Cousin Ben Checks In.
hello,
my trip to laos has been a very crazy and long journey. what started off as an already 20 hour bus ride turned into something else. we left hanoi at 5:45pm in a mini bus with 10 seats and packed in 10 people plus all of the luggage in with us. there were bags on top of people and surrounding the door, it was a mess. people here like to pack the bus as full as possible, they will sell tickets after tickets and never think about bags and such. so this mini bus takes us to the hanoi bus station and we get dropped off. the guy handling all the bags was very rough with them and it resulted in my hip strap being broken on my backpack, but not quite as bad as the British girls who had china in their bag! we were under the impression that we would have a sleeper bus until a city 6 hours south of hanoi then switch buses for the border, but no. we get to our bus and it is a regular bus that is packed full of stuff in the cargo holds and the roof has tons of boxes on it. what are we transporting here? we finally pull out of the station around 7pm and after 5 minutes the A/C is off and all of the windows are open! like i have said before it is very hot in Vietnam. so we start our trip and everyone is sweating and not enjoying the ride. after a couple of hours we start picking up people along the way..... families..... making people move seats and accommodate for more people. at one point we stop and look out the window and they are tightening the lug nuts on the bus! wow this is only 3 hours into the trip. we come to stopping point at about 2:30am and take a break. once again they are tightening the wheels on the bus..... and adding more boxes of who knows what. we also pick up another 4 passengers! so there was no bus switching we took the same broke down bus across the border. we arrive at the border at 5:30am and leave at 8:30am.... we had to go through Vietnam exit immigration and then go and get a laos visa. the visa you could get on arrival and was fairly simple. the border crossing was in a very beautiful place up in the mountains and the temperature was much better, almost chilly. so we get going and finally we see some rain which is nice for a change and we believe that we have a long bus trip to the capital vientiane. well then there is a traffic back up and there has been a mud slide. so the driver makes everyone get off the bus and attempts to go through it and makes it. well back on the bus, but then not even half a mile up the road are more buses, trucks and cars stopped. no one on the bus speaks english except for the other westerners on the bus with us, so some of them go and check it out. there are 4 huge mudslides blocking the road! so some backpackers get there stuff and decide to walk through it and see what is on the other side. i decided to wait a bit and see if they would return or not. it was still continuing to rain a lot and people where getting stir crazy. finally there were 6 of us who decided to get on and go find out. we figured there would be a bus on the other side. we stopped at about 11:30am for the mud slide and now it was almost 2pm. we began our walk and i could not imagine my eyes, these mud slides where huge. there was no way that our bus was going anywhere for a long long time. there were 4 huge mud slides that we had to walk through, needless to say we were all covered in mud and rain and soaked to the bone. we see some more people from our bus and they are in the back of this converted truck that has a roof over the bed of it. we pack it full and take off towards town which was about a 10 minute ride. it finally stopped raining but everything was soaked. paying for this ride was hard because they use kip over here and all we have in Thailand baht or dollars, so it wasn't easy. then we see a bus and find out it is going to vientiane!!!! lucky, because this bus was about to be leaving. we see other passengers from our bus in there and they told us we barely made it. so all of the seats are full but they have little plastic stools that we can sit on in the aisle of the bus!!! we got on the bus around 3:45 and arrived in vientiane just after 7pm. my back was killing me. anyways I'm here in Laos now and it was a crazy ride getting here, but i made it. hopefully my next overland trip will be different.
Ben
my trip to laos has been a very crazy and long journey. what started off as an already 20 hour bus ride turned into something else. we left hanoi at 5:45pm in a mini bus with 10 seats and packed in 10 people plus all of the luggage in with us. there were bags on top of people and surrounding the door, it was a mess. people here like to pack the bus as full as possible, they will sell tickets after tickets and never think about bags and such. so this mini bus takes us to the hanoi bus station and we get dropped off. the guy handling all the bags was very rough with them and it resulted in my hip strap being broken on my backpack, but not quite as bad as the British girls who had china in their bag! we were under the impression that we would have a sleeper bus until a city 6 hours south of hanoi then switch buses for the border, but no. we get to our bus and it is a regular bus that is packed full of stuff in the cargo holds and the roof has tons of boxes on it. what are we transporting here? we finally pull out of the station around 7pm and after 5 minutes the A/C is off and all of the windows are open! like i have said before it is very hot in Vietnam. so we start our trip and everyone is sweating and not enjoying the ride. after a couple of hours we start picking up people along the way..... families..... making people move seats and accommodate for more people. at one point we stop and look out the window and they are tightening the lug nuts on the bus! wow this is only 3 hours into the trip. we come to stopping point at about 2:30am and take a break. once again they are tightening the wheels on the bus..... and adding more boxes of who knows what. we also pick up another 4 passengers! so there was no bus switching we took the same broke down bus across the border. we arrive at the border at 5:30am and leave at 8:30am.... we had to go through Vietnam exit immigration and then go and get a laos visa. the visa you could get on arrival and was fairly simple. the border crossing was in a very beautiful place up in the mountains and the temperature was much better, almost chilly. so we get going and finally we see some rain which is nice for a change and we believe that we have a long bus trip to the capital vientiane. well then there is a traffic back up and there has been a mud slide. so the driver makes everyone get off the bus and attempts to go through it and makes it. well back on the bus, but then not even half a mile up the road are more buses, trucks and cars stopped. no one on the bus speaks english except for the other westerners on the bus with us, so some of them go and check it out. there are 4 huge mudslides blocking the road! so some backpackers get there stuff and decide to walk through it and see what is on the other side. i decided to wait a bit and see if they would return or not. it was still continuing to rain a lot and people where getting stir crazy. finally there were 6 of us who decided to get on and go find out. we figured there would be a bus on the other side. we stopped at about 11:30am for the mud slide and now it was almost 2pm. we began our walk and i could not imagine my eyes, these mud slides where huge. there was no way that our bus was going anywhere for a long long time. there were 4 huge mud slides that we had to walk through, needless to say we were all covered in mud and rain and soaked to the bone. we see some more people from our bus and they are in the back of this converted truck that has a roof over the bed of it. we pack it full and take off towards town which was about a 10 minute ride. it finally stopped raining but everything was soaked. paying for this ride was hard because they use kip over here and all we have in Thailand baht or dollars, so it wasn't easy. then we see a bus and find out it is going to vientiane!!!! lucky, because this bus was about to be leaving. we see other passengers from our bus in there and they told us we barely made it. so all of the seats are full but they have little plastic stools that we can sit on in the aisle of the bus!!! we got on the bus around 3:45 and arrived in vientiane just after 7pm. my back was killing me. anyways I'm here in Laos now and it was a crazy ride getting here, but i made it. hopefully my next overland trip will be different.
Ben
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