Driving Your Body To The Limits - Extra Care Needed

When You Drive Your Body to Its Limits... Extra Maintenance is Required!
Athletes are not usually thought of when we speak of groups that are at risk. We don't always think of athletes... but we should. An athlete's life could be classed as dangerous to one's health. In fact, couch potatoes often live longer than athletes.
Scientifically the explanation is because of higher activity levels, there have been extra, unmet nutritional demands on athletes.
Athletes can use up more minerals than people who are sedentary. Athletes can lose more sweat in 5 years than couch potato's do in 75 years. When a person sweats they are not just losing water... their sweat contains up to 60 essential minerals. Essential minerals are so called because if any of them are missing for any length of time, the result can be the onset of a degenerative disease, many of which are life threatening! The conclusion drawn from this is if athletes don't get additional nutrients in their diets, their very lives can be at risk.
Now what's the message here? You don't have to be an athlete to sweat, you might be in the military. You could be a tradesman -roofer, carpenter, electrician, plumber, or perhaps a carpet fitter. You could be a farmer, a dance instructor. Perhaps you work in a bakery. Or maybe work in an air conditioned insurance agency or even hang meat in a cold store, never sweating at your work place, but then you go to a health club/gym where you go to work out - and sweat 3 nights a week. If you are not replacing the minerals that you are losing during sweating then you won't to make it to 100 and you are likely going to be sick and miserable for the last 12 to 15 years of your life. Exercise without mineral supplementation is a negative, not a positive. Would you run your car without oil.
The point is that it isn't just Athletes we're talking about. Ordinary people are suffering mineral deficiency every day too.
An athlete needs many more calories than a 'normal' human but if too much of their nutrition is empty calorie foods then their vital organs and cells become mineral depleted and also depleted of other vital nutrients. This is the cause of heart attacks in athletes - mineral depletion - because nutrition didn't keep up with bodily demands. I remember well in 2012 football player Patrice Muamba almost died... at just 24 years old.
Athletes need more supplements, minerals, phytonutrients and vitamins. So, if you are active, you need more, not less nutrition. That means anyone who is fit or indeed not so fit but pretty active. The best mineral supplements are plant derived rather than cheaper metallic minerals. This is because plant derived minerals are massively smaller than their metallic counterparts. This means that plant derived minerals are fully and quickly absorbed by the body whilst only 10% - 20% of metallic minerals are absorbed in the normal daily body cycle.