Stay hydrated!

Around 70% of the human body is water.With adequate fluid intake your body has a way of transporting waste products and rebuilding your injured muscle. You should always aim for 1ml of water for every calorie you ingest (more if its hot or you are exercising). Water ionizer has  alkaline key components that contribute to water quality.

PAIN MANAGEMENT

 

Acupuncture offers a safe, natural way to control joint pain and other symptoms, that patients experienced a 60 percent decrease in pain and a 40 percent increase in function after receiving a series of acupuncture treatments.

 

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BENEFITS OF SPORTS

• Exercise can help increase your flexibility, strengthen muscles and bones, and maintain a healthy weight.

• Diet is another important issue. Stick to a healthy diet made up of a wide variety of unprocessed, organic foods. Your acupuncturist may also suggest adding natural anti-inflammatories to your diet.

• Stress relief can also help. By learning to identify your stressors and lowering your stress through techniques such as breathing exercises, meditation, yoga, Tai Chi or Qi Gong, you can improve your state of mind and your health.

• Maintaining balance in your life is also key. A balance of rest and relaxation with activity and exercise will keep you feeling your best.

 

Sports Rapid Energy Sources

 

• Central to Sports success is the ability of the human body,  engage in prolonged strenuous muscular activity. This capacity for endurance  effectively remove muscle heat waste.

• Muscle soreness after exercise, otherwise known as delayed onset muscle soreness or DOMS, can hinder both your exercise routine and daily activities. If you feel a dull soreness starting about 8 hours and lasting for a few days after an intense bout of physical activity.

• art of the process of strength training is increasing the nerve's ability to generate sustained, high frequency signals which allow a muscle to contract with its greatest force. It is this neural training that causes several weeks worth of rapid gains in strength, which level off once the nerve is generating maximum contractions and the muscle reaches its physiological limit. Past this point, training effects increase muscular strength.

• metabolic fatigue is the result of a decrease in necessary ions (such as calcium) or substrates (ATP), or the accumulation of agonistic metabolites, such as lactic acid. Lactic acid accumulates as a result of anaerobic exercise, through the glycolysis pathway.

  Substrates within the muscle generally serve to power muscular contractions. They include molecules such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), glycogen, and creatine phosphate. ATP binds to the myosin head and causes the "ratchetting" that results in contraction according to the sliding-filament model. Creatine phosphate stores energy so that ATP can be rapidly regenerated within the muscle cells from adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate ions, allowing for sustained powerful contractions that last between 5–7 seconds

• Glycogen is the intramuscular storage form of glucose, used to generate energy quickly once intramuscular creatine stores are exhausted

• Lactic acid as a metabolic byproduct. Lactic acid is a waste product which causes muscle pain and fatigue, 

• Metabolites are the substances (generally waste products) produced as a result of muscular contraction. They include ADP, magnesium (Mg2+), reactive oxygen species, and inorganic phosphate. Accumulation of metabolites can directly or indirectly produce metabolic fatigue within muscle fibers through interference with the release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum or through reduction of the sensitivity of contractile molecules actin and myosin to calcium

 

Exercise for diabetes: Exercise is a particularly potent tool for glucose control in those who have diabetes mellitus. In a situation of elevated blood glucose (hyperglycemia), moderate exercise can induce greater glucose disposal than appearance, thereby decreasing total plasma glucose concentrations.

The mechanism for this glucose disposal is independent of insulin, which makes it particularly well-suited for people with diabetes. In addition, there appears to be an increase in sensitivity to insulin for approximately 12–24 hours post-exercise.

Particularly useful for those who have type II diabetes and are producing sufficient insulin but demonstrate peripheral resistance to insulin signaling. However, during extreme hyperglycemic episodes, people with diabetes should avoid exercise due to potential complications associated with ketoacidosis. Exercise could exacerbate ketoacidosis by increasing ketone synthesis in response to increased circulating NEFA's.

Type II diabetes is also intricately linked to obesity,  connection between type II diabetes and how fat is stored within pancreatic, muscle, and liver cells. Likely due to this connection, weight loss from both exercise and diet tends to increase insulin sensitivity in the majority of people.  Although nobody is technically cured of diabetes, individuals can live normal lives without the fear of diabetic complications; however, regain of weight would assuredly result in diabetes signs and symptoms.