Helpful Natural Body Building Supplements
Most professional body builders will tell you that the most potent of natural body building supplements is protein. Protein is the building block of all muscle repair and tissue. Protein gives your energy level a boost with lingering stamina so you can excel at doing longer and more intense workouts.
One of the preferred forms of protein for body building supplementation is whey protein. It ranks high because it contains all of the essential amino acids needed for natural bodybuilding. To be most effective it needs to be taken routinely every day.
Another great natural body building supplement is known as creatine. It boosts your energy levels and helps combat fatigue so you are able to exercise longer and with less soreness afterwards. Creatine is actually a substance that is naturally produced in your body and taking this supplement helps boosts levels of tolerance to pain. It also helps increase muscle mass.
Yet another supplement that helps build muscle mass is Glutamine. This is a natural supplement that helps fuel your body with the enzymes it needs to allow you to work out as long as possible. It also helps speed nutrients in the body to the muscles, which results in large, more finely toned muscles.
As these three supplements, creatine, protein and glutamine are the three most often recommended supplements that are often sold in combination in drinks and formulas. They are available at gyms and at health food stores. You can also order them online.
Yet another natural supplement is testosterone. Although the body, which qualifies it as being “natural”, produces it, it is not that safe. One of the problems with taking supplemental testosterone is that the muscle mass created may not stay stable. It is best to stay away from both natural and synthetic forms of this supplement as the side effects are unpredictable. You should also stay away from anabolic steroids, which are also hormones, but not as easy to obtain as testosterone as their use is banned or illegal in a lot of places in the world.
Another trendy bodybuilding supplement is nitric oxide. During an intense body building workout your body produces nitric oxide to help fight tissue stress. Nitric oxide does this by dilating your vessels so they carry more blood and nutrients to where they are needed. However this supplement can also give you a pumped up feeling that can make you more aggressive and speedy. Even though nitric oxide is also natural and produced by the body, it is not that reliable of a supplement in terms of its effects on your mood.
To play it safe it is probably the safest to stick to protein, creatine and glutamine supplementation as these three natural supplements do have proven history of bulking up the body while at the same time sparing you from any risks to your health. Many of the supplements that are quick fixes have some very negative long-term side effects.
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Choosing a Ferret Diet: is a Natural Diet Right for Your Ferret?
Until the last 40 years, ferrets were fed what we refer to as a “natural diet,” which was similar to the diet of the domestic ferret’s wild ancestors. In recent years as ferrets have become more popular, they have been fed commercially prepared ferret, cat, and kitten diets. While this is convenient for us as owners, is it what our ferrets were meant to eat? What exactly is a natural diet, and what are the benefits and concerns associated with it?
FERRETS ARE CARNIVORES
Ferrets are obligate carnivores, which means that they get their nutrients from a diet high in animal protein and fat. Their diet must be a meat diet, because they are unable to digest vegetable protein. They need food that is very low in carbohydrates, and they get their energy from animal fat. This is why proponents of a natural diet argue that ferrets’ bodies are actually designed for a whole prey or raw meat diet.
Ferrets have a short GI tract populated with simple organisms, and they don’t absorb nutrients as well as other animals can. They are intended to eat food that provides them with a highly concentrated fat content (calories for energy) and highly digestible meat proteins for maximum nutrition.
While there are a number of high quality ferret kibbles available today, many of them contain a high number of grains, corn, and other sources of filler material in addition to vegetable protein. Ferrets who eat diets with excessive vegetable protein can suffer from poor skin and coat quality, decreased growth rates, bladder stones and other conditions.
Insulinoma is also a concern, as a high level of carbohydrates in a ferret’s diet puts too much stress on the pancreas. While there is no definitive proof that a diet high in carbohydrates causes insulinoma, it just is not healthy for the beta cells in the pancreas to be overworked. When beta cells work too hard, they become overactive (hypertrophied) and either burn out (stop working altogether) or go to neoplasia (cancer).
MYTHS ASSOCIATED WITH A NATURAL DIET
Before I explore what feeding a natural diet entails, there are a few widespread misconceptions associated with feeding whole prey or raw meat that need to be addressed.
First and most importantly, your ferret will not turn into an aggressive wild animal if you feed a raw diet! Kim Schilling, author of Ferrets for Dummies, draws a great parallel. She points out that cats are great hunters and, at times, vicious hunters, playing with their prey before killing it. They kill countless mice, birds, rabbits, and other wildlife throughout their lives, yet they still remain sweet and cuddly companion animals that are perfectly happy to sit in your lap, purring and allowing themselves to be petted. It is not going to be any different with ferrets. Eating raw meat isn’t going to transform your sweet little girl into a vicious killer.
Many ferret owners point out that diseases could be passed from the prey animal to the ferret. If you are feeding your ferret the dead mouse from your mousetrap, the spread of disease is very likely. However, there are a number of reputable sources for humanely killed, frozen prey animals, and as long as you stick to getting prey from those sources, your ferret should be fine.
Another misconception is that to feed a natural diet, you must feed live prey. This is not true, nor is it even recommended. While some ferrets may be able to catch and kill their prey, the majority are going to take time to adjust to a natural diet, let alone be able to hunt for their own food. Ferrets are fully domesticated after all! Also, if you were to feed live animals, you also risk your ferret being bitten by the prey animal. The point of feeding whole prey is not to allow your ferret to hunt live animals, it is to provide a nutritious diet.
TYPES OF NATURAL DIETS
I will discuss two types of natural diets in this article – a whole prey diet and a raw carnivore diet. Bones and meat are the staples of a natural diet, regardless of which type you choose to feed.
Whole Prey Diet
A whole prey diet is the most balanced natural diet, and it refers to feeding ferrets pre-killed, frozen prey such as mice, rats and chicks. Ferrets have teeth that are designed for cutting meat and bone, so whole prey provides them with the necessary exercise for teeth and jaws and cleans their teeth and gums. Whole prey also gives your ferret the chance to experience a variety of tastes and textures, so it’s enriching as well.
Raw Carnivore Diet
Another natural diet option is a raw carnivore diet, which is a good alternative for ferret owners who are hesitant to feed prey animals to their ferrets. Raw carnivore diets can include commercially prepared diets that contain meat, organs, and bones. They can also include raw or cooked meat like chicken wings, raw liver or hearts, and other similar foods. If you are trying to find a raw carnivore diet, look for one that contains all parts of the animal (meat, bone, cartilage, organs) and meat suitable for human consumption. It must be high in fat and protein.
One thing a natural diet is not is just raw or cooked meat. If you feed your ferret only chicken, she will not get the nutrients that she needs. Bones, organs and other parts contain amino acids, calcium, fatty acids, iron and other essential vitamins and minerals that your ferret needs for a balanced, nutritious diet.
PROS & CONS OF NATURAL DIETS
As with any practice, there are both pros and cons associated with feeding ferrets a natural diet. If you are contemplating a natural diet, you should consider this list closely, and speak with your veterinarian about any concerns you may have.
Benefits of a natural diet include:
Automatically well balanced diet.
Closest diet possible to what your ferret would eat in the wild.
High in moisture (unlike kibble).
Fewer incidents of hairballs and obstructions because of the variation in food consistencies.
Protein and fat sources are high quality.
Because you design your ferret’s diet, you have more control over what your ferret eats.
Owners who feed a natural diet report that their ferrets have more energy, plusher coats, better overall dental health, and smaller stools with less of an odor.
Ferrets in countries that feed a natural diet have significantly lower incidences of insulinomas.
Concerns associated with a natural diet include:
Must be done correctly or the ferret will become malnourished.
Can be difficult to switch your ferret over to a natural diet.
Slight possibility of choking on bones or internal injury from bones.
Bacteria or parasites could be present if the whole prey isn’t from a reputable source.
Food must be handled carefully or you risk salmonella or e. coli contamination.
Can be expensive and inconvenient.
FEEDING A NATURAL DIET
Before you do anything, it is very important to speak with your veterinarian. Your veterinarian will determine what your ferret’s nutritional needs are and how healthy your ferret is. Switching foods, especially from a commercial dry kibble diet to a natural diet, can be stressful on a ferret, and you need to make sure your ferret is up to the change. You may need to limit his access to kibble for short periods of time to get him to try the prey or meat, so you will need to make sure that your ferret is not insulinomic and his blood glucose levels are stable. Finally, it’s important to keep your veterinarian abreast of any changes in your ferret’s care, as it can affect how he or she will treat your ferret.
As with any diet change, switching to a natural diet should be done gradually. There may be a point where you have to completely remove your ferret’s kibble, effectively forcing him to try the new food, but this should not be done right away. Start out by giving your ferret meat and meat gravy or broth baby food, if you aren’t already, to get him used to eating meat. Once your ferret will eat baby food, you can try giving him some chicken. Move from that to chicken wings, either cooked or raw. Remember, any meat you give your ferret must be free of spices and sauces. Your ferret needs nutrients, not zesty barbecue flavor! Whether or not you feed the meat raw depends on your comfort levels. Once your ferret is comfortable with meat, you can continue to give that to him or you can try whole prey. (If you decide to feed your ferret whole prey, make sure it is fully defrosted.)
If your ferret is refusing to try the meat, here are a few things you can try:
Drizzle FerreTone on the meat, chicken wing, whole prey, or whatever else you’re trying to feed him.
Be creative with the meat you give him – if he won’t eat straight meat, try mixing cut up pieces of it with kibble.
Use the juices that come from the meat and pour it over their kibble to get them used to the new taste.
You will find that some ferrets are much more easily converted to a natural diet than others. Younger ferrets generally have a quicker transition because they aren’t quite as imprinted on their food as older ferrets are. However, whether you’re trying to switch over your six month old ferret or your six year old ferret, be patient and remember that different ferrets will like different things.
There is a difference of opinion as to whether all ferrets can be switched to a natural diet. There are some owners who advise removing all kibbles, forcing the ferret to eat the meat, because they believe that all ferrets can be switched over. There are others who will only try until it’s obvious that the ferret would rather starve than eat the meat. How you go about switching your ferret and how hard you are willing to push is something that you will need to decide for yourself after discussing it thoroughly with your veterinarian.
If you are able to successfully switch your ferret over, be sure to give him a variety of different animals, meats, or other dietary components. The key to doing a natural diet properly is feeding a combination of different foods. Ferrets wouldn’t eat only mice in the wild – they would eat anything they could catch – so they shouldn’t just eat mice at your house either. You may also want to continue feeding kibble if you are feeding a raw carnivore diet.
A NOTE ABOUT NATURAL VS. COMMERCIAL DIETS
The point of this article is not to prove that the ferret food industry is evil. While there are ferret diets out there that are not as good as they could be, there are also manufacturers who strive to provide healthy, nutritious diets for our ferrets and work on developing great new foods. Likewise, if you choose to feed a kibble diet, you are not a bad ferret parent. You just need to be aware of the ingredients in the food and what the protein and fat sources are.
It is important you understand that there is no hard evidence a natural diet is better than a kibble diet or vice versa. Much of the information available as to how either diet affects our ferrets is anecdotal, based entirely on ferret owners’ personal experiences. Every ferret owner needs to decide what diet will be best for his or her ferret after doing research and discussing the options with an experienced ferret veterinarian.
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Exercise Tips: A 6 Step Natural Workout
In today’s difficult economic times, you may not want to continue with your high priced gym membership. Instead, you can get an equal or better workout at home by following this 6-step natural workout plan.
Gym memberships are expensive ranging from a low end $25 per month fee to a high-end $500 proposition. We need to ask ourselves, “What are we getting from the gym membership that we cannot achieve on our own?”
Health Clubs make their money from gym memberships not from attendance. If health club profits were based on attendance as opposed to membership dues, they would all go bankrupt. The reality is that most people feel like they have done something healthy because they joined a gym. But after joining, do they actually, consistently workout?
The answer is no.
Perhaps, in these trying economic times, you may want to consider halting your expensive health club membership that you probably don’t use and trying a natural workout.
A natural workout consists of all of the exercises that you can do on our own without the fancy equipment. These free exercises are often better than their machine counterparts at the gym because they employ all muscle groups.
Let’s take a look at a natural workout that you can do for free (or at minimal expense). This workout will produce results that you thought were unattainable without hefty gym fees. Additionally, when you are ready to workout, you can begin immediately without having to drive to the gym, put your clothes in a locker, and get looking your best (all of the things that prevent you from going in the first place). You can do this natural workout at home and you can begin immediately.
The natural workout is extremely simple and produces amazing results in your physique and attitude. This simple natural workout takes place in 6 steps that you repeat 3 times with a small break in between each one.
As you would at the gym, before you perform this work, take 5 minutes to stretch your body.
Step 1, Cardio: An important component to any workout is to elevate the heart rate. This makes for a great cardio workout and burns fat. You can jump rope or run in place to achieve this cardio workout at home.
Step 2, Push-Ups: Push-ups are a great chest workout. By varying your technique (placing your hands closer together), you can also have a very well targeted tricep workout. And, if you dare, try using your fingertips instead of your whole hand for a great way to build wrist and hand strength. All you need to do push-ups are gravity and ground, both readily accessible.
Step 3, Sit-Ups: Sit-ups work the abdominal muscles and will get you to the six-pack abs that you have always wanted.
Step 4, Pull-Ups: Pull-ups are known as a compound exercise because they work many muscle groups at one time. Though the dorsi muscle group in the back is heavily targeted, many other muscle groups benefit. You can install a pull-up bar in your house or buy one for under $30.
Step 5, Squats: Fitness trainers will tell you that squats are one of the best exercises that you can do. Squats work the glutes, quads, hamstrings and calves all at once.
Step 6, Dips: Dips, like push-ups, are a compound exercise which work the Triceps, Chest, and shoulders. Dip bars can be found at the part, online, or manufactured at homw.
This 6 step natural workout produces outstanding results and is much safer than a machine workout because it uses natural body and gravitational resistance instead of weights.
Join the fitness revolution instead of the gym. This 6 step natural workout will have your looking and feeling your best very soon.
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In A sport like body building, there will be many supplements that are used to grow the muscles very quickly, but most of these are man-made steroids substances. The natural body building done is without the use of unnatural materials being put inside the body. But that does not mean that not using supplements as many like the available natural products. What that means is that staying away from such man developed hormones and steroids in order to help building the body mass.
Body building industries have taken a firm stance on use of the illegal and artificial materials – mainly competitions. There even are some specific contests geared for the natural body builder. Most of the competitions will test them before allowing them to contest, and if they are found to possess an illegal material in the body, they will be banned from taking part.
While all the synthetic products will enhance the body quickly, they might have bad side effects. Trend about natural building is all about growing the body and maximizing nutritional intake and as well as stay healthy while growing the muscles.
After you have decided that natural building is how you want to do it, then it’s important you take the correct amount of all the vitamins and nutrients that will enhance your workouts. This means popping a multi vitamin and also eating properly will send all the muscle building protein to the correct parts of the body.
It’s definitely possible to enhance the body naturally by way of an effective training program along with decent nutrition. There is absolutely no reason for steroids or growth hormones to be put into your body for building some muscle mass.
The key component of the natural building program is to make sure you eat healthy and also keep a positive mindset about the workouts. Sometimes supplements are important if you want fit, toned muscles. The key ingredients in such supplements like glutamine and creatine are produced in the body anyhow. What these supplements do is hike up substances that are present there anyway.
All Proponents in favor of natural body building will surely agree that effective workouts along with good supplements and proper nutrition will make for a fit, healthy and toned body. Natural building is surely the way to do it if the goal in the bodybuilding program is to feel healthy and good. Some steroids and some growth hormones must not be used at all.
Building the body the natural way is perfect for all. Steroids surely are not. so don’t take that chance and suffer bad effects after steroid use. Keep in mind that a good workout program and commitment to the body building goal will surely grow the body in the natural way not otherwise.
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