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Muscle-Link - Ribose Size - 100 Grams

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Product: Ribose Size

Code #: Lucky ID: WB50660 | UPC: 619307982805

Manufacturer: Muscle-Link

Size/Form: 100 Grams

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Ribose Size

Ribose is a carbohydrate, or sugar, used by all
living cells and is an essential component in
our body's energy production.

Supplemental ribose is a new nutraceutical
product that helps the body naturally restore its
energy level. It's used by the body's cells to
form the primary source of all the body's energy
- ATP.

As a dietary supplement at recommended
dosages, ribose provides known benefits by quickly restoring energy
levels in heart and skeletal muscles. Until now, it wasn't available for
sale as a dietary supplement, due to high production costs. Now
ribose is sold over-the-counter; it doesn't require a prescription.

Whether you're a high performance athlete looking for an extra boost,
just feeling sluggish and run-down, or suffer form poor cardiovascular
health, ribose may be the key to helping your body find its energy.

There are 10 calories (2.2 grams of carbs) per serving.
45 servings per container.
If you're a serious athlete or simply serious about achieving peak
performance, ribose may be an important supplement for you.

Many athletes experience anoxia as the result of intense physical
exercise. Anoxia occurs when muscles use oxygen faster than it can
be supplied through the bloodstream. When intense exercise causes
anoxia, ATP levels in the cells fall, and it will take several days to
restore energy levels.

Supplemental ribose helps rebuild the body's energy level. When
anoxia occurs, ATP levels are lowered; the cells don't have enough
oxygen to use the ATP, and ATP is then lost, washed away into the
bloodstream. Research conducted at the State University of New York
at Syracuse and the Copenhagen Muscle Research Center in Denmark
shows that ATP levels in thigh muscle can be reduced by 21 percent
following intense exercise. Other studies have found decreases of up to
47 percent in other muscles.

Ribose is essential in helping the body restore its cellular energy level.
The cells use ribose to convert nutrients in ATP, so it makes sense
that more ribose means more ATP production. Research shows that
ribose increases ATP production in both fast-twitch and slow-twitch
muscles by 3.4 to 4.3 times.

The catch is, the body only has so much ribose at any one time, and
there's no food source that increases the body's ribose level. The good
news is that supplemental ribose does just that.

Weight lifters; sprinters; football, basketball and soccer players;
triathletes; cyclists and other athletes requiring sudden high-energy
bursts may benefit from supplemental ribose. Energy recovery in
muscle cells during and after strenuous high-intensity exercise is
enhanced with ribose supplementation.

Ribose may enhance the effects of other energy supplements. rgy levels. But even with creatine supplementation,
ATP and total adenine nucleotide (TAN) levels can decrease
dramatically. If these compounds are lost, they are no further value to
creatine, and no amount of creatine in the cell can replace them. Left
unchecked, this drop in ATP and TAN pools lowers the muscles'
energy charge.

Ribose is effective in helping to save and rebuild these
energy-producing compounds. The biochemical evidence is clear -
creatine supplements alone cannot rebuild energy levels once
substrate molecules are lost. Working in combination, ribose and
creatine may offer new benefits that serious athletes can't ignore.

The same is true for L-carnitine, pyruvate, pyruvate/creatine
combinations or other energy supplements. While these compounds
work on their own, their effectiveness is diminished as substrate
molecules are lost - they cannot rebuild ATP levels. Ribose helps to
rebuild these substrates, and increased substrate availability is key to
maintaining peak energy charge and heart or skeletal muscle cell
function.

Under normal conditions, the body has all the ingredients it needs to
produce ATP from digested foods or other energy stores in the body.

For some people suffering from lack of energy, it's lack of oxygen that's
the culprit. When our body's cells don't get all the oxygen they need
from the bloodstream, they can't use their fuel, and ATP and other
essential compounds are lost.

Two different but related conditions can cause low oxygen levels in the
body. One of these, ischemia, occurs when the heart can't get enough
blood to the cells. Ischemia can be caused by a number of factors
related to poor cardiovascular health. On the other end of the
spectrum, people who are extremely fit can exercise past their heart's
ability to get oxygen fast enough to the cells a condition known as
anoxia. Either way, our cells, especially muscle cells and the cells in
the heart itself don't get enough oxygen, and they start to lose ATP
and other important compounds.

The bottom line is this - if you're actively exercising, you're losing the
compounds needed to maintain maximum energy levels in muscle
cells. And if you suffer from poor circulation, the same thing is
happening.

According to the American Heart Association, 60 million Americans,
more than one in four, suffer from cardiovascular disease.

One result of poor cardiovascular health is ischemia, a condition where
poor blood flow decreases the amount of oxygen reaching various
tissues in the body. When ischemia occurs, the body's cells aren't
getting the oxygen they need to properly burn energy-producing fuels
(such as ATP), and have less energy available for normal, everyday life.

In the heart, ischemic conditions may be caused by a number of
factors, including coronary artery disease, infarction (caused by
clotting in the heart) or cardiac surgery. When ischemia occurs, ATP
levels may decrease by 50 percent or more, and research suggests
that it may take seve study
found that, following a heart attack, supplemental ribose helped ATP
levels and heart function return to normal within two days; without
supplemental ribose heart function was still depressed after four
weeks.

Supplemental ribose can help the heart rebuild energy, and millions of
Americans may significantly benefit from its effects. Ribose may help
dramatically improve the quality of life for persons suffering from certain
cardiac conditions, and research shows it has a direct effect on heart
function for persons suffering from ischemia.

Ribose dose suggestions for sports nutrition

Ribose increases both de novo synthesis and salvage of
nucleotides in heart and skeletal muscle. Research conducted
by Bioenergy, Inc., and others suggest that even low doses of
ribose will have an effect on energy recovery following
high-intensity exercise. Maintenance doses as low as two
grams per day will increase recovery of lost nucleotides by
increasing de novo synthesis and salvage of nucleotides that
are in danger of being lost due to strenuous activity. Further,
there appears to be a functional benefit of ribose loading prior to
a high-intensity event. Bioenergy continues to investigate this
effect.

Doses greater than or equal to 2.2 grams per day should be
enough to improve nucleotide synthesis and salvage during and
following a high-intensity exercise session. The actual amount
taken may depend on the degree of exercise activity and the
speed at which the athlete wants to recover. Daily maintenance
doses greater than or equal to 2.2 grams per day should keep
ATP levels at their peak.

Maintenance doses of ribose should be taken about 30 minutes
following an exercise session. On days with no exercise
scheduled, ribose should be taken in the evening before
bedtime. However, ribose has been found to be most effective
if taken both before and after a period of anaerobic metabolism.
Therefore, for optimum result, a dose of 2.2 grams or more
may be taken before exercise, followed by a similar dose after
exercising.

Long-term aerobic exercise also causes nucleotide depletion.
Again, maintenance doses of 2.2 grams should be sufficient.
However, additional does of 1.0 to 2.2 grams may be taken
every hour of exercise for added benefit, such as a
long-distance run or cycling event.

Ribose dose suggestions for cardiovascular health

Under conditions of cardiac insufficiencies, blood flow to the
heart is diminished. Some individuals have known cardiac
insufficiencies, while a great many others may not even know
that such conditions exist. In either case, cardiac function may
be diminished, energy stores may be low and recovery to peak
levels may be slow or never achieved. For these individuals,
even simple activities required for daily living may be difficult
and exercise may not be tolerated. Energy recovery is certainly
a major concern.

Ribose increases both de novo and salvage of nucleotides in
the heart, helps to optimi

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