Life Elevated

You train for hours, spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on equipment but if your level of this one powerful substance are not optimal you will not get the benefits of all your hear work and money. I am not talking about a new supplement with fancy packaging or high-end marketing but a substance that our body has relied on for thousands and thousands of years.   The substance is vitamin D. And I want to emphatically state that optimizing your vitamin D3 level may be the single, most important thing you can do for your health and performance.      It is...

Healthy Fats Are Where It’s At.  I am frequently asked what oils to use when cooking.   The answer is actually very simple.  You can achieve almost all the taste and health benefits from whole healthy fats by using coconut oil and/or ghee either together or alone.    While coconut oil is a rising star in the cooking world due to its heat stability and many health benefits, you may not be aware of ghee. Ghee has been used for thousands of years in India as a premium cooking oil celebrated for its taste, nutritional benefits, and medicinal qualities.  In fact, Ayurveda, the ancient...

Taking Supplements?  Use these Four Tips to Maximize Your Results. Supplements don't always live to customer's expectations or marketing. What are some ways you can ensure they work? 1.  Focus on Quality:  Build Your Nutritional Foundation with Whole-Food Concentrates   The human body doesn’t recognize or utilize synthetic and/or isolated vitamins and minerals well because it has been genetically programmed to thrive on the nutrients found in real food—fresh vegetables, fruits, and herbs.  Unfortunately, the ever-declining quality of our food supply and on-the-go lifestyle make it difficult—if not impossible—to nourish our bodies properly.   The logical solution is to reach for a...

Increase the benefits of BEET JUICE Powder with other superfoods Recently, a team led by Dr. Rishikesh Patel at London's Kingston University, intrigued with the numerous beetroot studies  showing it improves athletic performance and cardiovascular health. As we have discussed in the past, beetroot juice is rich in nitrates, which are converted to nitric oxide in the body. This dilates blood vessels and reduces oxygen consumption -  allowing athletes to go further for longer. Since both dark chocolate and beetroot juice are known to increase nitric oxide, which is the major mechanism behind enhanced cardiovascular health and performance, Dr. Patel's...