A recent report shows that soy sauce is more effective than red wine or vitamin C in combating cell damage. The antioxidants in soy sauce are 10 times more effective than those found in red wine and 150 stronger than vitamin C. These antioxidants combat free radicals that cause damage to tissues. Free radicals result in premature aging, injury, heart disease and cancer. Another interesting fact is that in the hours after one has eaten soy sauce, blood flow was improved by as much as 50%! Soy sauce has a lot of salt but for long races where it’s hot and salt is necessary, you might consider a few squirts of soy sauce in your water bottle and get not only the salt you need but a good dose of antioxidants as well! Please experiment with this in training before you try it.

Another (better) way to get your daily antioxidants is to take BodyHealth Complete Multivitamin or BodyHealth Complete+Detox. It has the best combination of organic food concentrates and vitamins to meet your antioxidant needs.

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Dark soya sauce healthier than red wine:
Reuters
Sat Jun 3, 2006 12:07pm ET

Here are good reasons:

1. Most meats have antibiotic, hormone, and chemical residues.
2. Our foods are contaminated with phthalates from plastic wraps, Styrofoam, Tupperware, and non stick coatings from fry pans, that enter our system.
3. Our clothes, mattresses, and sheets, are full of chemicals, flame retardants, preservatives, and anti- fungals, that enter our bodies through the skin.
4. Our air is full of carbon monoxide, petrochemicals, lead, mercury, plastics fumes, etc. which enter our bodies when we breathe.

In an ideal world our food would nourish us and give us the nutrition we need to replenish our systems. Since the world is far from ideal, our bodies, to survive, need much higher levels of minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants just to cope with this non ideal environment. Getting enough from our depleted foods is simply not enough.

by Luis Alvarez - Winner at Ironman Honolulu - The only man to complete every Ironman race venue in the world

I would like to share with you an experience that makes me to think over about the difference between being healthy and being fit.

It is clear that any one that can finish an Ironman or a triathlon should be fit and have an excellent health, but how many athletes and specially being over 40 are having periodic health evaluations?

When I came back home after finishing Ironman Australia I went to the lab to get a complete blood test done. Most of the results were not a surprise, low immune system, quite common between athletes and sometimes even hemoglobin lower than people that do not work out at all. What really surprised me was ...

by Cherie Gruenfeld - IM Age Group Champion

When we have a great race, it's payback for all the hard training that's been put in the bank. But a triathlete has one potential advantage that is unique in the sporting world, a part of our event where we can buy time for free – no anaerobic training required: Transitions.

It's easy to overlook T1 and T2 as places to buy time. Instead, we look at them as a necessary few minutes that you add in when you're planning your race goal. However, the first time the tv cameras caught Paula Newby-Fraser shooting past the T1 tent in Kona, going straight from the water to her bike and leaving her competition staring in wonder, some people started looking at transitions a little differently.

"Within a few weeks of supplementing my whole food diet with MAP I was able to outperform sport- specific cyclists on the bike and maintain my suppleness to teach yoga.

This degree of strength, power, flexibility, psychological tenacity for training, and physiologic recovery makes it evident to me that MAP can keep an athlete in superb cellular fitness if he/she attends to other healthy and wise training and lifestyle variables."

I'm looking forward to the the balance of this racing season with MAP.

Coach Steve Ilg
photo: by Heidi Snell/Visual Escapes

We have several programs through which you can earn free MAP.

MAP Winner's Circle -- Win your age group in a sanctioned event and win a free bottle of MAP.

Automatic Re-order Program -- When you sign up for our Auto Re-order program, every 12th bottle is free.

Affiliate Program -- Register as an Affiliate, then have the people you refer enter your name on their order form. Every time you have earned 12 credits, we will ship you a free bottle of MAP.