The 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona marked the beginning of a trend that continues to this day.
For decades, athletes – both novices and elite athletes – have leaned on nutritional ergogenic aids to enhance exercise and performance.
Bodybuilding and performance-enhancing products come with a long list of potential benefits… Increase your muscle mass. Perform better. Run faster. Lift more weight. Get better muscle pumps. Stay injury free during intense training and recover faster.
Whether you’re working out at home, or the trail, or going to the gym, who wouldn’t want all these benefits?
But are these ergogenic products safe to use?
Some aren’t. Anyone using these products must be aware that some of the claims may be unsubstantiated, and some ergogenic aids may actually be dangerous or hinder performance.
When considering any ergogenic or bodybuilding product, always ask these four questions:
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What is the theory behind the product’s action? How does it work?
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Are there any scientific studies published in peer-reviewed journals that support the claims that the product makes?
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Are there any side effects, especially any potentially serious adverse effects?
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Is the use of the product legal? Is it Certified for Sport® by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) International?
Become the Strongest Version of You with Our Researched-Backed Ergogenic Formula
To become the strongest version of you – and help you unlock your pure potential – you need the right ingredients.
We’ve formulated Pure Power Endurance with the everyday athlete in mind.
No matter if you are working out regularly – or just a weekend warrior – or wanting to take your sport to the next level, this powerhouse formula is the right choice for you.
A delicious berry flavored powder, Pure Power Endurance provides the nutritional goodness of four clean ingredients:
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Glycine
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L-Arginine
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CitraPeak® Glucosyl-Hesperidin (from modified Citrus aurantium and Citrus sinesis Fruit Extracts)
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elevATP® (a researched combination of “ancient” peat extract, or fossilized plants, and apple skin extract)
These exceptional ingredients are designed to work together to bring out the strongest version of you.
With Pure Power Endurance, in no time, you’ll notice a feeling of greater strength and stamina, as this unique medley of ingredients benefit your body from head to toe.*
Best of all, each one-scoop serving contains only 5 calories, zero total sugars, and less than one gram of carbohydrates, making it the ideal companion to any dietary plan, including keto and low-carb diets.
And there are no artificial flavors or colors, caffeine, artificial sweeteners or genetically engineered (GMOs) ingredients in Pure Power Endurance. Organic stevia provides a light, pleasing touch of sweetness, yet not overwhelming.
We recommend mixing one scoop with 8 fl. oz. or more of water or beverage of your choice and drinking it about 30 minutes before your workout.
In a minute, we’ll take a closer look at each of these ingredients, but first let’s find out about a valuable gas that is so essential to exercise and optimal blood flow.
Nitric Oxide Provides Strength From Within
Along with supporting healthy blood flow by helping your veins and arteries relax, a soluble gas stored in the lining of your blood vessels called nitric oxide, or NO, promotes healthy endothelial or blood vessel function and heart health.
NO is produced inside your endothelial cells from the amino acid L-arginine, where it acts as an important signaling molecule to promote healthy blood flow and the transport of oxygen and nutrients throughout your body.
In addition to its effects on your blood vessels, NO uses additional mechanisms to benefit your body during exercise. It helps delay the onset of fatigue, and it increases the clearing of metabolic by-products created during high intense exercise.
This gas also plays a protective role in your mitochondrial health, the energy storehouse of your cells. Your skeletal muscle, which is only made up of about 1% to 2% mitochondria, depend on these energy powerhouses to fuel your body’s movements.
When you exercise, your blood vessels deplete their stored nitric oxide within about 90 seconds, and the muscle ache you feel is a signal that you’ve also run out of oxygen.
Under normal circumstances, your body responds by releasing NO to dilate your blood vessels and deliver more oxygen.
Dr. Zach Bush created what’s known as the Nitric Oxide Dump – a four-minute high-intensity interval training – that is designed to stimulate the release of nitric oxide in your body. Once released, the NO works its way into your muscles and helps them relax.
To help maximize the positive effects of NO in your muscles, I recommend doing the Nitric Oxide Dump three times a day. Be sure to repeat the four movements in rapid succession as described below:
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Squats
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Alternating Arm Raises
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Non-Jumping Jacks (raising the shoulder only but not lifting your feet off the ground)
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Shoulder Presses
Factors That Affect Your Body’s Production of NO
So what affects your body’s ability to produce NO, and what else can you do to help support healthy blood flow?
Aging affects your body’s ability to produce NO – you lose about 10% every decade of life. Because of what’s known as endothelial dysfunction, the enzyme NOS loses its ability to convert L-arginine to nitric oxide with age.
But that’s not all. These other factors can affect your body’s production of NO, and your optimal blood flow:
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Inadequate sun exposure is a major risk factor for insufficient NO production. When sunlight touches your skin, nitric oxide is released into your bloodstream, which is vital for both skin and mitochondrial health.
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A poor or processed food diet typically doesn’t include high-nitrate vegetables that convert into nitric oxide, such as celery, cress, chervil, beetroot, spinach and arugula.
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Lack of exercise can lead to low levels of nitric oxide in your body.
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Using an antiseptic mouthwash or antacids can kill the bacteria essential to nitric oxide production.
- Fluoride and chlorine, if present in your drinking and showering water, can convert NO into other substances, including toxic and destructive nitric acid.
You can support healthy blood flow in your body and brain by avoiding as many of these bad habits and toxic substances.
And you can increase your intake of L-arginine…
How L-Arginine Helps Increase NO
L-arginine, a conditionally essential amino acid, directly produces nitric oxide through a process called the L-arginine-NO pathway.
It is not only a precursor to nitric oxide, it is required by the endothelial lining to create nitric oxide.
In fact, L-arginine is the only nutritional substrate in your vessel lining available to the cells for nitric oxide production.
Supported by scientific research, supplemental L-arginine has been shown to support healthy normal blood flow and overall cardiovascular health by how it…
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Helps blood vessels relax, promoting optimal blood flow and endothelial function.*
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Enhances exercise performance and tolerance.*
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Aids in maintaining blood pressure levels already in the normal range.*
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Promotes a healthy cardiovascular system by helping to support cholesterol levels already in the normal range.*
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Promotes healthy immune function.*
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Supports healthy, normal breathing.*
Pure Power Endurance supplies 2 gm of L-Arginine per one-scoop serving.
Boost Your Power and Increase Muscle Mass with Glycine
While glycine may not be as well-known as some of the other amino acids, your body uses it to create proteins for the growth and maintenance of your tissues and cells.
Your body uses glycine to make creatine, which supplies energy to your muscles and nerve cells to help them repair damage and grow back stronger.
By boosting the level of creatine in your body, glycine helps guard against the breakdown of protein in your muscles.
Creatine provides your muscles with energy to perform quick, short bursts of activity, such as weightlifting or sprinting. When combined with resistance training, creatine can increase strength and muscle mass, and boost power.
Glycine also plays a role in the production of collagen – it’s the amino acid most needed for collagen synthesis. Approximately 30% of the collagen in your body is composed of glycine.
Literally the glue that holds you together, collagen is needed for forming connective tissue, such as ligaments and tendons, which is what keeps your joints flexible.
Studies show glycine is needed for promoting flexible cartilage and supporting healthy joints. Especially as you age, you need glycine to help support joint function and protect joints from damaging free radicals.*
Increasing your intake of glycine may help promote healthy cartilage by enhancing collagen synthesis.* For all these reasons, athletes often choose to include glycine in their supplement regimens.
Pure Power Endurance provides 4 gm of glycine per one-scoop serving.
Level up Your Workouts with CitraPeak®
When you work out hard, you naturally want to see rapid gains.
CitraPeak® Glucosyl-Hesperidin, naturally sourced from modified Citrus aurantium and Citrus sinesis Fruit Extracts, supports athletic performance by optimizing nitric oxide levels, blood flow and thermogenic effect in your body.
Fast-acting CitraPeak…
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Maximizes NO production and blood flow for better muscle pumps.*
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Acts to help open blood vessels to deliver more nutrients and oxygen to the muscles to allow you to lift heavier weights for longer periods of time and grow stronger.*
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Provides a thermogenic effect to support healthy metabolism and the burning of fat.*
This cutting edge ingredient effectively increases blood, nutrient, and oxygen flow to your muscles, which results in the ultimate pump and maximum blood flow, nutrient flow, and oxygen delivery, all within 30 minutes.*
Not only do muscle pumps feel good when they happen – that positive feeling of blood rushing to your muscles – the flooding of your muscles with nutrients and oxygen forces them to grow bigger and stronger. This allows you to lift heavier weights and increase your reps, all while building muscle mass.
So, how does CitraPeak® work?
Extracted from orange peels, CitraPeak®, or glucosyl hesperidin, contains all of the biological functions of standard hesperidin.
CitraPeak® breaks down in your body to hesperidin, a flavonoid shown in studies to increase nitric oxide production and support healthy circulation.*
Pure Power Endurance supplies 200 mg of CitraPeak® per one-scoop serving, standardized to 140 mg of Monoglucosyl Hesperidin.
The Muscle-Boosting Power of Ancient Peat Extract and Apple Skin Extract
elevATP® is a patented, researched plant blend of potent water extracts of ancient peat and apple fruit.
Containing 66 elements, including minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc, and bioactive compounds, such as quercetin, epicatechin and chlorogenic acid, elevATP® plays a powerful role in exercise performance.
Why ancient peat extract and apple fruit extracts?
elevATP® synergistically combines mineral-rich ancient peat extract and a polyphenol- and flavonoid- rich apple extract to help increase blood ATP levels without increasing reactive oxygen species (ROS).
elevATP® is especially rich in magnesium and sulfur. These two minerals are critically important for the synthesis of ATP, the form of energy currency that your muscles use to fuel contractions, as well as mitochondrial function.
How does elevATP® work?
Earlier we learned how glycine boosts levels of creatine, which supplies energy to your muscles and nerve cells to help them repair damage and grow back stronger. Creatine restores the ATP inside your cells via a system called the phosphocreatine system.
elevATP® does much the same thing, but in a different way… It increases your cellular ATP, but doesn’t use this same system, as not everyone responds to creatine supplementation. It’s thought that the magnesium and sulfur in elevATP® might explain its positive effects.
ATP increases blood flow, as well as nutrients and oxygen, to your muscles. When you have plentiful ATP, your muscle tissue can perform demanding work, such as exercise, at a high intensity more effectively, and for a longer period of time.
Even if your body does respond to creatine, elevATP® only enhances the benefits.*
To summarize, human trials show the following ergogenic effects of elevATP®:
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Significantly increases strength and power output during resistance training.*
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Enhances anabolic signaling in muscle cells, resulting in potential improvement in body composition and lean body mass.*
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Improves exercise capacity and reduces fatigue.*
What all this means to you is this: elevATP® allows you to do more reps, lift heavier weights, and have greater endurance while exercising.
Pure Power Endurance supplies 150 mg of elevATP® per one-scoop serving.
NSF Certified for Sport® - A Formula You Can Trust
There is no shortage of dietary supplements aimed at athletes promising extra strength and power. However, many of them can’t be trusted.
Some of the products do not contain the ingredients or quantities shown on the label, and others may contain unwanted or even banned substances.
Consumers have a good reason to be concerned, as it can be difficult to know which products you can really trust.
With the goal of providing individuals with safer choices when selecting dietary supplements, National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) International has developed the first truly independent testing standard and product certification program known as NSF/ANSI 173.
NSF International’s Certified for Sport® program meets the growing demands of athletes, coaches and all those concerned about banned substances in dietary supplements and functional foods.
Pure Power Endurance is Certified for Sport® by NSF International, the only independent third-party certification program recognized by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League and the Canadian Football League.
Certified for Sport® is also recommended by the NFL, NBA, PGA, LPGA, CCES, CPSDA, iNADO, Ironman, NASCAR, Taylor Hooton Foundation and many other organizations seeking to mitigate the risks of contaminated dietary supplements.
There are many quality components of the Certified for Sport® certification program:
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The product is manufactured at a facility that is GMP registered and audited up to two times per year for quality and safety by NSF International to comply with the U.S. FDA’s Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements.
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Toxicological review of the label to make sure all ingredients are allowed to be in a dietary supplement and that the amount of each ingredient does not exceed typical use levels established by NSF.
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The product and label are tested to verify product formulation and label claims to be sure that what’s on the label is in the product. Then chemical and contaminant testing is conducted to make sure there are no potentially harmful levels of specific contaminants, pesticides, heavy metals and more.
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Products are tested for 290 substances banned by major athletic organizations and anti-doping associations.
When you choose Pure Power Endurance, you can rest easy knowing it’s a product you can trust.
Unlock Your Pure Potential with Pure Power Endurance
To become the strongest version of you – and help you unlock your pure potential – you need the right ingredients.
Each scoop of Pure Power Endurance powder provides L-Arginine, Glycine, and patented CITRAPEAK® glucosyl hesperidin and ElevATP®, an ancient peat extract and apple fruit extract to support your performance during workouts.
These ingredients are all scientifically supported by studies to promote your body’s production of nitric oxide and ATP for greater strength, energy and stamina.*
Just as important, Pure Power Endurance contains zero grams of sugar and only 5 calories per serving. It’s keto-friendly, gluten free and contains no artificial sweeteners, dyes, flavorings, or genetically engineered ingredients (GMOs).
Get the most out of your workouts – and elevate your fitness to the next level – with Pure Power Endurance, and order your supply today.