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Endurance Stress Profile for Athletes

The E-Juven8 Program

Most athletes in extensive physical training reach what they call ìthe point of dimin- ishing returnsî ñ that point where race times slow, and recovery that used to take a day now takes a week. While they may sense that they are at that point, they often donít know the combination of fac-tors that has slowed their per- formance. They may attribute the problems to age, when that is not really the source at all. If you are an athlete experiencing a slump, consider these other factors, which could well be the culprits: nutritional deficiencies, high-carbohydrate diet, free radical damage, muscle wasting, increased body fat, elevated cortisol, adrenal stress, and dehydration.

Cutting-Edge Tests, Treatment and Training

Recent progress in biochemistry has led to a remarkable new program of special testing and training for these frustrated athletes. William (Rusty) Scala, MA, is a leading expert in the interconnection between nutrition, wellness and human performance; and he has used these new biochemical findings to help athletes uncover specific nutrient deficiencies and severe damage caused by overproduction of free radicals. The tests also reveal how efficiently an athleteís metabolism and intestinal tract are breaking food down into usable nutrients.

With the help of a dedicated team of highly trained specialists, Scala has developed a superior nutritional medicine program called E-Juven8. He brings to this program twenty-five years of close work with athletes. Studies reveal that nutrient deficiency is a serious problem among many athletes, often even among those that excel at their sports and have the outward appearance of excellent health. Left uncorrected, the deficiencies can eventually escalate into illness, surprising athletes who believed their extensive training would have ensured their good health. E-Juven8 identifies those athletes that are depleted, using a conclusive Endurance Stress Profile for every client. In preparing this profile, Scala begins with the powerful fact that every human body is unique and needs customized care. A customized diet. A customized supplementation program of high quality vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, and proteins.

William (Rusty) Scala

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The foundation of the profile is cutting-edge genetic testing that reveals the biochemical individualities of each person. Armed with these test results, Scala explains to each athlete his own deficiencies, as well as the specific foods and premium-quality supplements his body needs to be restored to balance and good health. Both oral and intravenous supplementation are available to treat metabolic deficiencies, and are prescribed according to the severity of the needs. Improvement is quick and dramatic. A corrected diet and prescribed sup-plementation heal the condition of the body from the inside out. Moreover, E-Juven8 provides such a thorough education, that it permanently changes a participantís understanding of training and health. As an athlete gains know-ledge of his own physiological individualities and needs, he understands and overcomes the factors that have been slowing his performance. And as he im-proves in his health, the E-Juven8 program tailors his training regimen to match his unique metabolism.

Free Radicals As a participant in the E-Juven8 program is getting the nourishment he needs to feel renewed vigor, another important improvement occurs: the customized diet helps correct the overproduction of the harmful molecules called free radicals. The normal production of free radicals is a natural process in everyoneís body, as is the production of antioxidants ñ the nutrients that disarm them. But people under physical, emotional and mental stress produce unusually high numbers of free radicals; therefore, athletesí bodies, in par-ticular, overproduce these toxic molecules. And the overproduction triggers a dangerous chain reaction. To understand this chain reaction, imagine that, during physical training, an athleteís metabolism produces a ìfire,î which burns off as energy. This ignition process, in turn, produces ìsparks,î which are called free radi-cals. These volatile molecules, or sparks, fall on parts of the body and damage them, slowing the athleteís performance and recovery from training. Nutrition plays a great part in how the body deals with free radicals. The more nutritionally deficient the athlete is, the more he will produce these harmful sparks during training. An already-depleted body subjected to the stress of training is extremely vulnerable to free radical destruction. The volatile molecules damage cell tissue and can contribute to almost every disease. Like troublemakers fighting against the police, within every system of an athleteís body is an ongoing battle between free radicals and antioxidants, our

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natural defense against their damaging effects. But over time, the battle impairs the immune system, and the production of antioxidants declines. Overwhelmed by stress, the body faces adrenal fatigue, muscle wasting, and weight gain. It also becomes susceptible to more serious problems: depression, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Because the brain is deficient in anti-oxidants to begin with, it is particularly vulnerable to free radical destruction, which can trigger changes that appear to be age-related ñ a decline in memory and motor performance, for example. The nutritional reinforcement provided by E-Juven8 is free radicalsí worst enemy and antioxidantsí best friend.

Looking in the Wrong Places for the Right Help Many athletes ñ driven by desire to boost their performance ñ seek guidance, support and other forms of help as they train. Sometimes the ìhelpî does more harm than good.

Endurance Training Clubs

Endurance training clubs around the US are growing in popularity, but few adequately teach what happens internally when a person starts training. This

kind of program is based on age, weight, blood type and current fitness level. For instance, women over thirty that are training for a marathon finishing time of 4 to 5 hours will be put on a different nutritional program than men the same age. But while itís good to put women on different diets from men, most clubs donít teach that women are also in danger of hyponaterima, an imbalance in sodium from drinking too much water. Yes, drinking too much water during training and racing can be dangerous.

The major drawback of these clubs is that they generalize the training, and this can be harmful. No one diet and training regimen will ever be safe for all athletes Ö or even all athletes of the same age, weight, blood type and current fitness level.

Dangerous Drugs

Dangerous supplements are another threat to athletes. When we look at the history of sports, itís clear that athletes will risk life and limb and try controversial performance-enhancing drugs in their effort to excel. Among the catastrophic complications triggered by such drugs have been seizures, blood clots, strokes, heart attacks and cardiac deaths. Itís particularly unfortunate that coaches and athletes turn to such products, when performance can be so greatly enhanced through perfectly wholesome customized nutritional guidance.

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Unrealistic Goals Unrealistic goals are a common downfall among athletes. For most people, a sensible amount of aerobic and resistance exercise can transform a personís body into an efficient energy-producing machine. But problems start when people set goals that are too extreme, such as training for an Iron Man or marathon before their internal systems are ready ñ that is, before their bodies are adequately nourished through correct food and supplementation. Many people make the mistake of starting to train while dieting. Unresolved sources of emotional strain can also overtax an athlete. Even juggling jobs and family while training is taxing. Stress, nutrient deficiencies and overtraining can imbalance the chemistry of their bodies and brains with devastating repercussions. Expecting to feel better the harder they train, athletes who arenít ready for such rigors can be very discouraged to gain weight after increasing mileage, be depressed after a long race, suffer from other moods swings, have insomnia after an interval workout, experience uncontrollable food cravings, have a low sex drive, and lose muscle mass. Women may grow more facial hair.

Advice from Unqualified Doctors

Traditional doctors arenít qualified to treat training-induced complications. Traditional medical tests typically fail to uncover the extent of damage to overtaxed athletesí bodies. The athletes can be devastated by the symptoms of stress, while their doctors observe only ìnormalî test results and well-toned people with low resting heart rates. Fooled into thinking the patients are healthy, the doctors will tell them, ìItís all in your head.î Or perhaps an athlete may complain of depression, and ñ again ñ the doctor sees only a healthy-looking person with normal blood work and prescribes an antidepressant. But a medicine that creates a false sense of well-being is masking the symptoms of depression, not curing the cause of depression. The E-Juven8 program fully corrects the internal chemistry of an athlete, so that he is truly calm and relaxed. He sleeps well. His body recovers more quickly from training. And he gains focus, motivation, more strength, and a good muscle-to-fat ratio.

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Benefits of the Endurance Stress Profile

Think of the body as a car for a moment. Proteins, carbohydrates, and es-sential fats are the gas. And vitamins and minerals are the spark plugs that ignite the gas to power the motor. Most all endurance athletes tested with the Endurance Stress Profile have been deficient. They were firing on, perhaps, two spark plugs Ö when they should have been firing on twelve. When the deficiencies were corrected, the athletesí recovery time improved. Metabolic activity that had been diminished for years rebounded, and the athletes felt new vigor in a few days.

Right now, customized supplementation is costly, because it is such a new concept. But that will soon change, as its benefits become apparent to the medical community and insurance companies at large. The foundation of any training program is food in the right balance, followed by supple-mentation to provide the body with the essential building blocks - and to sweep from the blood stream all harmful metabolic byproducts created during training. The advantage of E-Juven8, in particular, is the exact customization of these foods and supplements Ö the recognition that every human body is unique and needs unique care.

So How Important Is the Endurance Stress Profile? It is an uneducated and self-destructive athlete who pushes himself to the extreme, but doesnít take in proper nourishment. Who skips meals but never misses a training day. Whose body and brain chemistry is so unbalanced that he actually gains fat, even while running up to 40 miles per week Ö or leading a top-ranked football team to every victory. He is the heart and cancer patient of the future, if he continues with the same head-in-the-sand behavior. Through testing, scientists have verified that people can be overweight and malnourished at the same time, slowing their metabolisms as if their bodies are starving. Triathletes and people who run more than one marathon per year can have severe deficiencies that doctors miss in annual physicals; and so the runners continue on with the unmerited belief that, because they train and race, they are safe from heart disease and other illnesses.

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Within the brain are 10 billion cells (or neurons). When a personís brain is functioning properly, these cells are all working together in harmony and are actually communicating with each other as they perform their tasks. This communication is made possible by chemical messengers in the brain called neurotransmitters, which link all brain cells to each other. When an athlete is healthy, his body produces a sufficient supply of all the major neuro-transmitters. This means that his brain, then, is chemically balanced. And it is critical for a brain to be chemically balanced for its individual cells to function efficiently and work together as a team. When his brain is chemically balanced, the athlete feels calm and relaxed, sleeps well, re-covers from training, gets stronger, has focus and motivation, and achieves a balanced ratio of muscle to fat. There are many kinds of neurotransmitters, each of which serves a different purpose within the

body. Serotonin, dopamine, adrenaline, cortisol, and GABA are the names of a few of these chemical brain messengers. A malnourished or overstressed body does not produce neurotransmitters in a proper balance. The imbalance results in a wide range of problems, including those already mentioned in this brochure - depression and anger and other mood swings, insomnia, food cravings, anxiety, low sex drive, elevated body fat, muscle wasting, and increased facial hair in women. The Endurance Stress Profile reveals the imbalances and opens the way for correction and healing. E-Juven8 offers the athlete a depth and thoroughness of individualized guidance and treatment that is unparalleled.

Counteracting the Signs of Early Aging A speeding up of the aging process is another side effect of nutritional deficiencies and overtraining. Imagine the skin of a twenty-year marathoner, who has driven himself to excel, while being malnourished: probably weathered looking, right? Now apply what youíve already learned from this brochure, and imagine what that same deficient runnerís arteries must look like as they supply the heart. Theyíre probably clogged, arenít they? Current scientific study reveals that the best way to stop the process of degeneration ñ both internally and externally ñ is to correct nutritional deficiencies and slow free radical production. Proper diet and supplementation

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will help antioxidants, our internal ìpolice,î to end the destructive power of free radicals. The book The Wrinkle Cure, a recent best seller by Dr. Nicholas Perricone, explains in more detail how a person can protect the body from free radical damage.

Athletes Who Hurt Themselves When Meaning to Help For the body of an athlete, food deprivation is as harmful as overeating. Cyclists in the Tour de France require up to 8,000 calories a day. The bikers

that donít eat enough food eventually drop out, because they are too depleted to go on. These undernour-ished cyclists are a lesson to all other athletes. Most people start an exercise program to lose weight so they can feel healthier. But what happens all too often is that they start the program already in a nutrient-deficient state, and then are given the currently

popular, but misguided, advice to fill up on a high-carbohydrate diet. This is strange reasoning from high carbohydrate advocates, because such a diet is nutrient deficient. Full of hope and meaning well, these athletes obediently begin loading up on pasta, rice, bread, energy bars and sports drinks. In small amounts right after training, these foods are all right. But when eaten at every meal, they can cause severe deficiencies. When a person consumes a high amount of simple carbohydrates, he is deprived of the protein, essential fats and antioxidants that give a body the basics it needs to get through a day of training ñ or even to get through just a normal dayís routine activities. The current practice of carbohydrate loading will soon be lost in the pool of other faulty quick fixes. As an Endurance Stress Profile is customized for a participating athlete, special blood, urine, and saliva analyses uncover deficiencies in vitamins E and C, omega 3, omega 6, amino acids and specific B vitamins. To help athletes avoid a recurrence of these dangerous deficiencies in the future, E-Juven8 teaches clients to spot the signs and symptoms of malnourishment. Our body always gives us signals, and we must learn to pay attention.

The Special Needs of Women

Women athletes tested by E-Juven8 were often deficient in iron. Their hemoglobin was low, hemoglobin being the oxygen-carrying part of the red blood cells. Excessive training breaks up these cells. Iron deficiencies impair endurance, speed, recovery, oxygen delivery, and muscle metabolism.

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Women who have had one or more children often have postpartum deficiencies, because pregnancy has depleted their nutrient reserves. Left untreated, these deficiencies stay with them year after year. Postpartum depletion leaves women with many of the same symptoms of stress felt by athletes who overtrain ñ fatigue, mood swings, food cravings, and other ailments. And these symptoms will continue and continue until they are addressed. Needless to say, a woman in this condition should not begin a rigorous training program that will only wear down her body further. If a mother is interested in begin-ning a training program, it is critical that she be tested for postpartum depletion and treated with proper diet and supplementation, so that she can recuperate from child-bearing ñ even if it has been many years since she gave birth. The E-Juven8 program can restore her to health and make her body ready for the demands of training.

Be a Smart Manager of Your Own Program

The physical stress of training is cumulative. In other words, if an athlete skips meals, misses his supplements, or repeatedly stays out late, it will catch up with him. As this article has stressed already, when he combines heavy training with nutritional deficiencies, he speeds the breakdown of muscle, nerve, and heart tissue. Itís time for him to take time off when his morning pulse has increased 8 to 10 beats per minute, if he has insomnia more than two nights in a row, or if his weight drops two to three pounds in a week. Athletes ultimately need to rethink their training if they have any of the following conditions:

~ a sudden increase in race times. ~ constant tiredness. ~ inability to focus at work. ~ dizziness when standing. ~ lack of motivation. ~ frequent colds. ~ slow recovery.

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And Finally, a Change Is Coming A change is coming. And, unfortunately, depletion, disease and death will be what make it come. The diseases and deaths of deficient athletes will drive the traditional medical community to listen more closely to their patientsí com-plaints and provide more thorough testing. Eventually athletes will be able to tell their doctors, ìIím tired a lot and something just feels wrong with meî ñ and the doctors wonít look at these patientsí toned bodies and normal test results and say, ìItís all in your head.î In the meantime, the E-Juven8 program is already saving lives and making people healthy again. Regardless of where you live, you can participate in E-Juven8. If you live at a distance from Winter Park, Florida (just north of Orlando), and are unable to come here to the E-Juven8 office for consultations, then all test materials can be shipped directly to your home, and your specimens will then be delivered by airborne express directly to one of E-Juven8ís topnotch laboratories.

In a few days, by e-mail or phone, you will get thorough information about your own bodyís unique biochemical makeup. Part of this informa-tion will be clear and detailed explanations of any deficiencies and special needs revealed by your tests. You will also receive personal guidance in your customized diet and supplementation pro-gram.

As you study individualized new materials that you continue to receive from E-Juven8 about your unique body and about good health, you will grow very confident in your own understanding of what constitutes an excellent diet and healthy living. You will realize more and more how much faulty information about nutrition and illness circulates throughout todayís trendy society and throughout the traditional medical practice as a whole. And you will be pleased that you are getting a better education. Any questions you may have will be answered promptly. You will continue to receive new information and will remain a part of the E-Juven8 program as you improve physically month by month and move forward with customized supplemention that is essential uniquely to you. For more information about this cutting-edge resource for all athletes, view the website at http//www.e-juven8.com. ©William (Rusty) Scala 2004