Colostrum is one of the most important super foods for athletes because of the highly unique bioavailable nutrients it provides, including growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-1.

Numerous clinical studies have demonstrated conclusively that colostrum significantly aids athletic performance in many ways, including increased strength, energy, lean muscle mass, and shorter recovery time. Colostrum is important for all athletes—from bodybuilders and power lifters to hikers and even cross-country skiers, no matter what their age.

Importance of IGF-1

Colostrum is an incredibly rich source of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). Young bodybuilders (even around age twenty)are already experiencing a decline in the body’s production of all-important IGF-1 and other related growth factors. These declining levels of growth factors in young bodybuilders (especially IGF-1) reduce their ability to add on new and larger muscle and thus impair achieving the ultimate in physical performance. Even young bodybuilders, in other words, are experiencing IGF-1 declines.

But for all athletes, the biologically active IGF-1 in colostrum is essential for muscle repair and energy. Even if you’re 35 to 40, although you’re feeling fit as ever, you have probably begun losing skeletal muscle, the tissue that provides your strength and mobility, notes science writer Janet Raloff in an August 10, 1996 report posted on the Science News online website. "Slow, inexorable muscle wasting occurs even in healthy individuals who engage in regular aerobic exercise, but it usually goes unnoticed for decades. In fact, the body hides its loss by subtly padding affected areas with extra fat."

Colostrum Formula for Every Athletic Need

Dr. Anthony Kleinsmith, which produces perhaps the highest quality first-milking colostrum today, has developed several key formulas to address athletes’ needs.

Flex Complex for Building Muscle Mass

We call Flex Complex from Dr. Anthony Kleinsmith the essential formula for all athletes and bodybuilders. The comprehensive nature of this formula makes it the economic, smart choice for all bodybuilders who need to add muscle mass.

Flex Complex combines five of the most important natural performance and muscle-building agents known today—including IGF-1-enriched colostrum, diindolylmethane (DIM), methoxyisoflavone, 7 isopropoxyisoflavone and creatine—all in one affordable formula. It’s the essential formula for bodybuilders and other athletes of all ages—and that’s the key point: all ages.

Health experts note that DIM counters the effects of environmental estrogens and helps athletes to maintain healthy free testosterone levels and restore normal estrogen-testosterone balances. Nutrient partitioning agents such as methoxyisoflavone and 7 isopropoxyisoflavone further reduce the body’s stress response and enhance anabolic activities in the body. Creatine aids exercise-related gains in lean body mass, improves athletic performance and delays onset of muscle fatigue, especially among athletes performing high-intensity exercises such as weight lifting.

LeptiTrim6 Accelerated for More Muscle, Less Fat, and a Leaner Body

Many athletes say that the advent of leptin-rich LeptiTrim6 Accelerated is one of the most exciting breakthroughs of the decade. That is because LeptiTrim6 Accelerated uses specially filtered colostrum enriched with leptin, the anti-adiposity hormone that blunts the body’s craving for sweets and carbohydrates. LeptiTrim6 Accelerated promises to convert fatty tissue to lean muscle tissue and to prevent overeating of refined carbohydrates and other sweet foods, as well as diminish fat cell size. LeptiTrim6 Accelerated also provides enhanced levels of IGF-1 to direct metabolic processes to help the body burn fat, balance blood sugar, and build lean muscle, along with other co-factors. Garcinia cambogia curbs appetite and prevents the body from storing excess calories as fat. Fucoxanthin increases UPC1 and burns belly fat. Phaseolus vulgaris prevents absorption of excess glucose from consumed carbohydrates. Chromium polynicotinate helps overcome insulin resistance in overweight individuals. Green tea extract promotes the burning of fat.

Prescription for Being a Champion

Many important super foods and supplements will aid your quest to transform your body. If you’re going to use colostrum, use the best—Dr. Anthony Kleinsmith’s Flex Complex for putting on muscle mass and LeptiTrim6 Accelerated for replacing fatty tissue with lean muscle mass.

Availability

LeptiTrim6 Accelerated and Flex Complex detailed in this article are available at health food stores, natural pharmacies and natural lifestyle retailers. If your store doesn’t carry these products yet please visit an online vendor at www.dockofhealth.com, or call 877-295-1269 for a vendor near you. Questions? Get the answers: www.DrKleinsmith.com.

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