- 1000mg daily ( for men & women ages 19 to 50)
- 1200mg daily (for menopausal women 51 & older)
- 800mg daily (for children)

Calcium/Magnesium is needed for your teeth and bones, while also helping to prevent osteoporosis and other degenerating bodily diseases. If you cannot tolerate milk, or you’re following a low carbohydrate diet and not consuming milk, your calcium needs are not being met. Including a Calcium supplement to your diet will assist you in meeting your calcium/magnesium requirements.

When your body is under stress, whether it’s stress from everyday life or the stress you put your body under during a workout, a stress hormone called cortisol is released. This hormone causes your muscles to breakdown to provide your body with amino acids for tissue repair and assist your immune system. This stress hormone, cortisol, also causes your body to store fat; this is a bodily survival mechanism. Glutamine blocks cortisol.

Also, when you are sleeping at night, your body is repairing and building itself from the stresses and work it has gone through during the daytime. You do not want your body to break down lean muscle tissue during the night. So, going 6-8 hours at night without nourishment for your muscles that you are trying to build is not a good thing. You need to take glutamine before bedtime to block any muscle-breakdown; you want to build lean muscle mass, not lose it while you sleep. (Remember; Muscle = Metabolism).

An example of the very important role that glutamine plays is as follows: Remember, while exercising, you are tearing down your muscles, and on your non-training days or at rest, you are re-building your muscles. When at rest, if your body detects a tear in a muscle, your body will attack that tear in that muscle (kind of like the immune system fighting off a cold), to break it back down (kind of like sloughing it off), to supply your body with more amino acids to make other repairs.

You do not want your body to waste any lean muscle tissue that you’re trying to build. Remember, glutamine blocks that hormone, cortisol, giving your body more time to repair that muscle instead of wasting it.

The STARBODIES™ Whey To Muscle shakes are loaded with glutamine! They contain 4600mg of glutamine per 12oz shake.

- The Recommended Daily Amount

Many clients complain of joint problems, either in their knees or elbows, before starting their workout program; you can even hear their knees crack when they walk. Glucosamine w/ Chondroitin & MSM has proven (in study after study) to repair and build joint cartilage, ligaments, tendons, and even collagen. After supplementing with Glucosamine, most everyone forgets that they had an ailment, and…no more cracking sounds!

STARBODIES™ Psyllium Husk Fiber is not digested or metabolized by your body. The fiber binds with water and waste materials to pass through your intestines, to the colon, and then out of your body. Along the way, this helps to keep your digestive tract clean and eliminate toxic waste from remaining in your colon, which helps against colon cancer and many other diseases.

When STARBODIES™ Psyllium Fiber is combined with a simple carbohydrate food, the fiber helps to slow down the absorption rate of the sugar, giving your body more time to burn that sugar for energy, instead of storing the excess as body fat.

For example, simple carbohydrates have little or no fiber at all. When simple carbohydrates are consumed, your body breaks them down to sugar very easily. In turn, your body releases the hormone, insulin, to take up that sugar and store some as glycogen, and the excess as body fat. However, complex carbohydrates have fiber so they don’t break down so easily, which means insulin is not triggered to take up the excess sugar in your blood, and fat storage doesn’t take place.

Another important thing about STARBODIES™ Fiber is how it helps to regulate your insulin levels. When STARBODIES™ Fiber is added to your diet, this helps your blood sugar stay stable, longer, instead of you having the effects of high blood sugar (energy), then low blood sugar (you could just go to sleep). Your energy & mood swings will stay even throughout the day, so you can get more accomplished in your busy world, instead of feeling the sugar crash and tired feeling from the simple carbs.

STARBODIES™ Fiber also helps keep you feeling fuller longer, so not to overeat.

I take my STARBODIES™ Psyllium Fiber Capsules with water morning and night, just to keep all toxins moving out of my body on a regular basis. Also if I consume a treat that is considered more of a simple carbohydrate and lacks much fiber, I will take a little extra STARBODIES™ Fiber with it. This keeps blood sugars level and hopefully, no fat storage.