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How to Achieve Maximum Health Through Nutrition - Part 2

Last week we covered Part 1 of 3 in the quest for Maximum Performance, by achieving maximum health. We discussed the importance of determining which nutrients you need. If you missed it, read it here. This week, we will cover the importance of timing your nutrition


The goal of this series: Is to help you achieve maximum performance. Only when you achieve maximum health can you achieve maximum performance.


So let's dive in. To achieve maximum health through nutrition, you need to ensure you provide these two things:

  1. Provide your body with every nutrient it needs.
  2. Ensure it has those nutrients available for use, exactly when it needs them.

In last week's post, we gave you an overview and the importance of the essential nutrients the human body needs daily and the lesser-known phytonutrients. To get these two nutrients you need to have a mixture of both a healthy daily nutritional eating program along with the need for supplementation.

This week we dive into why getting those Nutrients at the right time is critical!


Having the nutrients when you need them.

Everyone has heard the historical way to obtain optimal health is to eat ā€œ3 balanced meals per dayā€. These balanced meals are breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The goal behind this was pretty straightforward - to ensure that the nutritional value of those three meals collectively provided the needed nutrients for 24 hours.

This is however no longer correct, especially given today's fast-paced and competitive lifestyle. As an athlete, it's even more difficult. The fact here is there is now an actual need for a 4th balanced meal, one taken right before bedtime that has a special focus. It's highly nutritious, with the correct amount of vitamins, minerals, proteins, while making sure it's lower on the calorie side.

Let's explain further below why this is a growing requirement for everyone, especially athletes.


There is now a need for a 4th "Pre Bedtime nutritious meal". One that's highly nutritious while making sure it's lower on the calorie side.


We will use a typical aspiring athlete as an example.

We will use a typical aspiring athlete as an example. The average athlete here has two workouts a day a couple of times a week. They typically wake up around 5 am for their morning workout, which lasts 1-2 hrs. Most of those athletes at this point will not have a balanced meal before a workout, they might throw in a small snack, like a protein bar, which is usually good with calories and some protein, but hardly a nutrient-rich meal. Then after a workout, they might then have a solid breakfast at say 8 am. Eventually, they grab lunch around 12-1 pm with a workout scheduled in the late afternoon. Somewhere between 3-6 pm, and have dinner shortly thereafter, say 6-7 pm. Most athletes will then be in bed around 10 pm getting ready for the next day. Rinse repeat.

If this sounds familiar to your schedule, then also take a deeper dive at the timings here. They eat dinner at 7 pm, go to sleep a couple of hours later, then are up at 5 am, train, and hopefully then have a nutritious meal at 8 am.

That's a 13-hour gap between meals. Worse yet, this is occurring at the most critical time for recovery, during sleep! Sleep is a critically important 6 -10 hour time of the day when there are no physical demands on the body, the perfect time to recover, repair, rebuild and rejuvenate for the next day. If the body does not have the nutrients it needs when it's trying to recover (during sleep), it's putting itself at a massive disadvantage. Also, another factor to take into account is the nutrition value of the dinner is often reduced by the immediate needs of the afternoon training just completed.

The Ideal 4th Pre Bedtime Meal.

This is one of the major reasons we strongly believe in the 4th bedtime meal. Please remember, however, this is not a typical meal, more of a specialized low caloric, high in nutrition meal. It's the perfect time for a fully balanced and complete nutritional ā€œmilkshakeā€.

Again the simple goal here is to make sure the body has all it needs during sleep to fully benefit from the previous day's training and recover as much as humanly possible in preparation for the next day's physical demands.

What our 4th pre-bedtime meal should have:

  • High amounts of essential macronutrients (must contain casein proteins).
  • Higher in as many micronutrients as possible.
  • Low in calories.
  • Protein source must not be just Whey, it needs to contain the critical "time release" protein Casein.

Start having that 4th meal and see how much better you will feel in the morning, waking ready to take on the world. We at P2Life have had countless athletes take the P2Life 14-day - 4th meal challenge by taking P2Lifeā€™s NutriBoost at bedtime. The results are amazing on how much better they feel and perform. Give it a try.

TAKE THE 14 DAY CHALLENGE

Start having that 4th meal and see how much better you will feel in the morning, waking ready to take on the world.

Finally, it is not just Bedtime a nutritious milkshake might prove important. It is anytime your daily routine does not allow you to have both a timely and nutritious breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Think of the milkshake as ā€œnutritional insuranceā€ for the body. Filling the gaps anytime you cannot have a nutritious meal..

Ā Remember we stress to maximize performance you must maximise health, and you can only maximise health when your body is provided with every nutrient it needs, when it needs it. Ā 

In closing, The body can only tell us when it has a calorie/energy need. It cannot tell us exactly what nutrient it needs nor when it needs it. A complete and balanced Nutritional Milkshake like our NutriBoost can help alleviate that important problem, making sure you always have what you need, when you need it.

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