There is so much information out there to digest (pun?) regarding healthy eating.  There is so much mis-information about what it means to use AdvoCare supplements in a CrossFit gym.  Here is exactly what we teach, preach, focus on, coach, expect and believe.  CrossFit Champions has been a clean eating, paleo-esque gym from day 1.  Nothing about what we encourage or coach has changed with the addition of the AdvoCare supplement line.  What has improved in our gym, with our members as well as our staff and their families is amplified results from our clean diets.

Here is what we’ve added AdvoCare to:

1. No grains.  We have advocated going grain-free for years!  Due to personal experience as well as loads of research and anecdotal evidence via our clients’ results over 7 years, we believe that everyone benefits from limiting all the way up to eliminating grains from their diets.  We’re not even looking at them from the high calorie cost.  We do not like the inflammatory aspect of grains.  Nor do we like the fact that the phytic acid from grains binds essential minerals in the intestine, preventing them from being absorbed.  Further, some of us are gluten sensitive which brings a whole host of problems in addition to these.  Get your carbs from vegetables!

2. Cholesterol is good for you!  Your sex hormones are built from cholesterol!  (Think about that one for a moment.  Think about the effects of cholesterol lowering drugs.  1 – 1 = 0.  Get it?)  Additionally, dietary cholesterol is essential for all animal life, it is recycled by the body and total levels are managed by the body irregardless of your dietary intake.  The issue with fats and cholesterols is the levels of sugars in your system which is why…

3. We recommend and follow a low sugar diet.  Nothing good comes from high sugar intake.  AND high sugar intake increases your insulin levels.  Insulin active and in your blood is a STORAGE HORMONE!  This means that if it is present your body is in storage mode!!  Re-read that.  Eat sugar -> insulin is released to deal with sugar -> storage comes before everything else -> NO weight is lost!  Your body sees carbs as sugar.  Lower your carb intake to lower your sugar intake.  Drop the sugar for a health and weight win all around.

4. Little to no processed foods.  If it comes in a bag, can sit on a shelf for days or weeks on end, has a commercial or offers a prize inside its a solid NO!

5. Your meat and dairy source matter!!  All of the above things said about grains are also true for the animals we eat.  Animals allowed to live as they are supposed to and eat as they are designed to do not need hormones and antibiotics and all those things that pass through to the next animal in the food chain…us.  Know your farmer, eat real food.

The modern industrial agriculture complex is not providing the best food for our families nor are they managing the land in a positive way.  There are holes in the food system even in the best of efforts.  Vitamin and mineral supplementation fills in gaps to make sure that we are not missing out on an essential nutrient.  It is insurance for when we have done everything else that we can to be as healthy as possible.  Our personal experiences and continuing education have lead us to believe more and more in the products and the company that is AdvoCare.  AdvoCare doesn’t replace paleo.  It amplifies the effects!

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