A recent fad that has been circulating through Hollywood for a while, and is starting to make its way to the mainstream is drinking coconut water for better hydration as a sort of more natural alternative to sugary, chemical-laden sports drinks.

Sports drinks like Gatorade purport to hydrate you better than water because of their high electrolyte content. Electrolytes are merely minerals, and they fuel our body with hydration better than ordinary water can because they help balance the hydration better in our bodies more quickly.

It used to be that whether you were young or old, if you needed an extra boost of energy, you just simply brewed yourself a cup of caffeinated coffee.  If you needed a little more boost, you’d just have a second cup or make your coffee a little stronger.

Increasingly, the younger generation is turning to energy beverages for a boost in their level of pep.  This sounds harmless enough but, to start with, the energy drinks are highly caffeinated and have a varied and sometimes bizarre combination of ingredients added to them. 

You’ve seen a lot of the sports drinks that are sold as a good electrolyte booster, and replenishing aid to help you re energize yourself during and after a workout, and help to balance those electrolytes that are lost in the sweat your produce when working out.

I know that I will occasionally buy some Gatorade for my husband when he is sick, because he says that is the only drink that makes him feel better. However, I know that it’s a terrible idea to actually use them after working out, or even before. 

We could all use more energy. Even if we’re naturally energetic, enthusiastic people by nature, there are times when we all suffer from low energy and a lack of endurance and willpower to get up off the couch and get stuff accomplished.

We’ve created a new page devoted to energy enhancing supplements so you can see what the good, bad and ugly are in the world of energy enhancing products.

So check out our page on energy boosting supplements and see what kind of boost you can get.

Unfortunately, the great tasting whey protein powder that so many people use when they are trying to build lean muscle by supplementing it with extra pure, lean protein, has an uncomfortable and often embarrassing side effect. That side effect is constipation.

You may be able to offset this side effect if you are just adding a few scoops of whey protein powder to a pure fresh fruit smoothie, since the fiber in the fruit may offset the constipation causing ingredients.

A diet drug that has been on the market in Europe and was being studied for it’s potential heart and cardiovascular benefits as well as it’s cholesterol lowering capabilities, has been yanked because of fears it may be causing higher suicide rates in the groups that are using the drugs versus the placebo groups.

You see, when they study drugs, supplements, or really anything else that may impact human health or behavior, they put people in controlled groups of users and placebo groups who just think they are using a drug but really are not.

What are the effects of a Human Growth Hormone (HGH) deficiency in, and how can it make you more fit and energetic and help to increase health and ward off aging?

There are reports suggesting that age-related problems can be helped by supplemental doses of human growth hormone (HGH). Our body naturally produces HGH when we are young, but its production declines as we age. Amazingly though, the consequences of the age-related deficiency in HGH are said to be reversed by supplemental doses of HGH.
Peak levels of HGH are observed during the growth phase of life.

Everyone wants to get ripped but very few know how to get there and even fewer have actually done it by themselves. Getting ripped is one of the best things you can do for your self-confidence. You will have more energy and the way you carry yourself will show people you feel good about who you are. If you want to get ripped you should make a good plan.

There has been a long running debate about whether or not human growth hormone, the real thing, which is injected into your blood stream, and has been banned in professional sports, actually helps athletes boost their performance and gives them an unfair advantage over the competition.

Well, apparently new studies are showing that it’ snot all just a bunch of hot air. HGH really does boost athlete’s performance, especially if that athlete is in a sport that has to do with mere seconds at the end, like sprinting or something like that.

We are going to continue our discussion on some of the most popular supplements and how to choose them when you are looking to build solid muscle and cut down on your body fat with your workouts.  Weight workouts can only give you so much on their own, so athletes, actors, body builders, and average Joes often look to supplement their diets with powders, foods or even snack bars to help their bodies pump up to the next level.