Antioxidant Recovery

By Cliff Sheats

Are you an exerciser or athlete who gets frequent colds and infections? If so, it may be time to pay more attention to antioxidant recovery.

In general terms, recovery is the process of regeneration that takes place in the aftermath of a workout. To appreciate its importance, consider what happens inside your body as a consequence of intense exercise: Energy-giving glycogen stores are depleted; muscle protein is dismantled; microscopic tears in muscle fibers occur; energy-producing compounds are lost from cells; fluid and electrolytes dwindle; disease-causing free radicals proliferate.

Because of all this, you’ve got to supply your body with all the nutritional building blocks it needs to restore what’s lost and repair what’s damaged. One of these building blocks is antioxidants.

An essential part of recovery involves mustering your body’s antioxidant defense forces. With exercise, there’s a dramatic increase in the amount of oxygen used by your body. A fraction of this oxygen is converted into free radicals, which are unstable oxygen molecules that attack body tissues.

Normally, free radicals are not a big problem. But during strenuous activity, free radicals can start outnumbering antioxidants — a condition called oxidative stress. This leads to muscle tissue damage, increases the body’s consumption of antioxidants and leaves you vulnerable to disease.

A significant amount of research has found that antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E and the mineral selenium, can neutralize exercise-generated free radicals and prevent them from doing harm.

To get the benefit, I recommend that you take Parrillo Essential Vitamin Formula^™, Parrillo Mineral Electrolyte Formula^™, Parrillo Natural Vitamin E Plus^™, and Parrillo Bio-C^™. Together, these supplements will help ensure that you get the protective effect from the key antioxidants they contain, mainly vitamin E, vitamin C, beta carotene, and selenium.

Here is the recommended usage for each supplement:

• Parrillo Essential Vitamin Formula^™: One tablet with each meal.

• Parrillo Mineral Electrolyte Formula^™: One tablet with each meal.

• Parrillo Natural Vitamin E Plus^™: One a day.

• Parrillo Bio-C^™: One or more tablet daily, preferably with meals.

Give your body the resources it needs to recover from the stresses of your exercise program. By following the tips in this article, you can minimize your recovery time and avoid getting sidelined by colds and infections.