by Vic Shayne, PhD

Too many people assume sports and fitness programs are always healthful. They see bodybuilders, martial artists, bicyclists, swimmers and even movie stars with tanned bodies and tight abs and assume they are all following healthy lifestyles. Most of them are not. Outer looks do not equate to inner health. Maybe these people won’t succumb to the diseases of obesity, but they suffer from other problems, because unless your diet and lifestyle is based on natural health-promoting principles, you cannot really be healthy. Even the best athlete is subject to heart conditions, fatigue, battles with weight loss, injuries and inflammation and even questions about confusion over supplements like glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin.

Sports performance, especially at the higher levels of competition, is the end-all. Therefore, sports figures and over-doers of athletic endeavors fall victim to the “more is better” mentality and short-term goals permeate their psyches. “Perform well and look well today and the hell with tomorrow” might as well be their credo. This is why we see so many athletes taking steroids, painkillers, diet pills, diuretics, isolated vitamins, chemicalized protein shakes, anti-inflammatories and even toxic herbs. We have seen our top athletes time and again, despite being in top shape, fall victim to disesase; Lance Armstrong to cancer, Jim Fixx dropped dead of a heart condition, Arnold Schwartzennegger underwent bypass surgery, and so forth. Being “fit” in our society is not the same as being healthy.

Regardless of whether you are a weekend warrior, a professional athlete or an amateur top competitor, the following nutritional schedule will apply.

Adjunctive Nutritional Schedule*
These formulas may be mixed into the same smoothie or taken separately:

WholeFood Complex Powder: 1 teasp per day
CellPower Powder: 1 teasp per day
SuperGreens PhytoFood Powder: 1 teasp per day
ProMin Powder: 1 teasp per day
VasCor Complex: 3 tablets before performance
Coconut butter: 1 tablespoon per day on foods
FlaxSeed Oil: 1 teasp per day

For concerns about cramping:
CalMag Powder: 1teasp before competition or during cramping

For more energy,
BFood Complex Powder: 1 teasp per day

For acute injuries:
InflaPlex: 2 capsules every other hour
(also see Pain/Inflammation)

The nutritional needs for sports performance include minerals that act as electrolytes (See SuperGreens PhytoFood); vitamins A, B, C, E, K, bioflavonoids for injuries, calcium for muscle contraction and cramping prevention (See CalMag Balance), essential fatty acids (See FlaxSeel Oil), amino acids and proteins (See Whole Food Complex) and foods that produce energy in the mitochondria of cells (See CellPower and BFood Complex).

* Adjunctive Nutritional Schedules are not meant to treat or cure disease, but rather to offer the body a variety of food nutrients that can be used for health support.

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