Because taking care of your liver is crucially important!
BY STEVE BORN
Before I start, I urge you to read “Hammer Nutrition’s 4 Pillars of Health and Performance”. Reading the information and following the recommendations in this pivotal article—avoiding processed foods and sugar, limiting sodium, eating locally grown whole foods, and supplementing—will prove to be massively beneficial in protecting your liver.
Based on the number of liver support formulas recently popping up on the market, it appears that people are FINALLY realizing that the health of their liver—the largest internal organ in the body—has a MAJOR impact on their health. In fact, when posed the question “What does healthy really mean?” world-renowned nutritional scientist Dr. Robert Lustig’s #1 response was “Protect the liver.” We believe that this proclamation is spot on: With the liver being responsible for more than 500 vital life functions [1], it’s clear that if it is not functioning optimally, the quality of your life will diminish, and your life expectancy will decrease… not “may” but “will.”
When your liver is not functioning at its best, you can also expect your athletic performance to go in the tank. As a statement from one piece of liver-specific research states:
The liver is a battery, a rechargeable battery at that. It releases stored energy at times of high metabolic demand and replenishes energy stores during the nutrient excess associated with a meal. The liver is a recycler converting metabolites into macronutrients, amino acids into proteins, and transforming potential energy into chemical energy. The liver is a detoxifier removing nitrogenous molecules, hemoglobin, hormones, foreign substances, immunoglobulin, and other compounds from the circulation. Physical exercise poses a unique challenge to the liver as metabolic demands of working muscles require the liver to mobilize energy stores, recycle metabolites, and convert compounds that are toxic in excess to innocuous forms. [2]
BOTTOM LINE: Everyone, especially athletes, place extraordinary demands—far more than we think we do—on this most-important, life-essential organ. That’s why it’s no stretch at all in stating that the liver is at the top regarding “running the show” for exercise performance and overall health. It’s also no exaggeration whatsoever to state that taking care of your liver—via proper nutrition and supplementation—is not just a good idea to consider. It’s. Absolutely. Essential.
At Hammer Nutrition, we knew that maintaining and optimizing liver health was vitally important long before all these expensive liver-health products recently started cropping up. That’s precisely why we developed LSA Caps, and that’s why it’s been in the Hammer lineup for over six years. If you’re not currently taking LSA Caps, you really cannot wait any longer; you need to start daily supplementation with this uniquely powerful and beneficial product right away!
Additionally, unlike so many of the overly expensive liver-health products that contain only a couple of nutrients—usually in a “proprietary blend,” which doesn’t allow you to know exactly how much of any nutrient you’re getting—LSA Caps contains specific amounts of the following nine nutrients that are well known for providing strong support for healthy liver function.
Per 4-capsule dose:
- Artichoke Leaf Extract 10:1 (Cynara Scolymus) – 100 mg
- Broccoli Sprout Extract 20:1 – 350 mg
- Milk Thistle Extract (80% Silymarin) – 350 mg
- BlueRich® Blueberry Extract 36:1 – 200 mg
- Porcini Mushroom Powder (Boletus edulis) – 650 mg
- Schisandra Berry (schisandra chinensis) Extract – 200 mg
- Selenium (L-Selenomethonine) – 100 mcg
- Molybdenum (Molybdenum Glycinate) – 60 mcg
Summary
Traditional Chinese Medicine refers to the liver as “The General,” which is a great analogy because, like a strong general, the liver protects the rest of the body’s organs and systems (the soldiers) against external invasions (toxins) and attacks (pathogens, which are microorganisms that can cause disease). Highly respected herbalist Dr. Michael Tierra states that “the liver serves as an important citadel for the function of the immune system as it is primarily responsible for detoxification and elimination of various metabolic poisons.”
I really like Dr. Tierra’s description of the liver as a “citadel” because I think it’s 100% appropriate and accurate. As a physical structure, a citadel is defined as a strong castle in a city or town that sheltered people from harm and kept them safe. The liver is your body’s citadel, protecting nearly every aspect of human health, and helping to keep other bodily organs and systems safe and functioning properly.
When you take care of your liver, you can enjoy maximal benefits both during your workouts and races and when they’re completed, and you help ensure that your liver continues to do its job in so many areas of your overall health with top efficiency. Because of, among many things, the high volume of free radicals and metabolic waste products that athletes produce during their workouts, their livers are usually working overtime. That’s why athletes need to be especially cognizant of doing everything possible to protect this vitally important organ.
Along with your efforts to consume the highest-quality diet possible—again, refer to “The 4 Pillars of Health and Performance”—two capsules of LSA Caps twice daily provides ideal amounts of key liver-benefiting nutrients. Make daily use of LSA Caps part of your 2025 health and athletic performance resolutions and stay on it for life. It’s simply an extraordinary product that will nourish and protect your liver and help it to maintain maximum performance. Don’t wait! Start on LSA Caps today!
REFERENCES:
[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4826571/
[2]https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx...
