Maximum Strength Electrolyte and Hydration Energy Drink
CARBION+ HIGH PERFORMANCE TRAINING FUEL
- CARBION+ delivers a reliable, sustained energy source to power
you through the toughest training.
- Maximum Strength Recovery with All 4 Key Electrolytes: Calcium,
Potassium, Magnesium and Sodium.
- Recover from intense training and replenish glycogen stores.
WHY DO I NEED CARBION+?
Understanding why someone would take a carb drink in the first place
helps you understand why CARBION+ is vastly superior.
CARBION+ is 100% Sugar-Free and delivers a reliable, sustained energy
source to power you through the toughest training.
CARBION+ is an ideal source of Energy with 6 proven High-Performance
Carbohydrates with essential Electrolytes for Hydration and plant
extracts for superior absorption. Carbohydrates are the most effective
and readily available workout fuel you can take. Properly supplemented,
they provide a highly stable and reliable energy source for optimal
performance – shifting to fat or protein for workout energy is
dramatically less effective and reduced performance is the result.
SUPPLYING A HIGH-QUALITY CARBOHYDRATE ENERGY SOURCE DURING TRAINING
IMPROVES PERFORMANCE & RECOVERY
Supplementing with carbs is one of the best ways to prevent cortisol
levels from rising and subsequently, catabolic muscle tissue breakdown
from taking place. This is a major factor as to why taking CARBION+
results in a more rapid recovery from intense training. If you’re
training hard, supplying high-quality carbohydrates during training
improves performance & recovery with every workout.
NOT ALL CARBS ARE CREATED EQUAL
What you see in our formula are truly engineered carbs with research
that shows how these complex and highly branched carbs behave in the
body. We have taken 6 carbohydrates, all with much, much higher
complexity than a sugar and then provided a range of complexity, not
unlike what you would find in food like rolled, cooked oats.
The degree of complexity of carbohydrates indicates the length of the
chain of glucose molecules; at the very low end you have monosaccharides,
only a single glucose molecule such as dextrose or fructose. The larger
the chain gets, the longer it takes enzymes to break down the links that
bind them together. This is where the glycemic index (GI) comes from;
the highest numbers come from the simplest, shortest chains because they
are absorbed extremely quickly and the most complex and longest chains,
are the lowest numbers.
This is due to the time required for the responsible enzyme to break
down the long chain polysaccharides into single glucose, galactose or
fructose molecules that can be absorbed. It is a common myth that these
larger chain polysaccharides can be directly absorbed, they cannot. The
human digestive tract only absorbs simple sugar molecules. Since these
very large chains require such a large amount of digestion, they absorb
over a longer period of time.
HOW DOES CARBION+ WORK?
What CARBION+ has done is to select a broad range of extremely complex
and increasingly less complex engineered carbohydrates to provide a
combination of absorption rates that deliver reliable, sustained energy.
Specifically, CARBION+ has 5 types of varying complexities of
carbohydrates. To best understand how CARBION+ works, it’s helpful to
compare it to a typical sports performance drink often made up of
dextrose, sucrose or fructose.
Drinks with a high osmotic pressure, such as drinks made up of simple
sugars, are held in the stomach much longer before they are sent to the
upper small intestine to be absorbed, and therefore readily available
for the body to convert to energy, or fuel. While in the stomach, the
drink with the simple sugars provides no fuel for training because it
has not reached the place where absorption can take place. It also leads
to uncomfortable stomach bloating and because the sugars once they move
to the small intestine are passed through the gut very quickly, it can
lead to a rapid sugar dump and subsequent crash.
CARBOHYDRATES ONLY ABSORB IN THE SMALL INTESTINES. NO CARBS ARE
ABSORBED IN THE STOMACH.
- Simple sugars stay in stomach longer
- Once in the small intestines absorption happens very rapidly
- Rapid absorption increases blood sugar and increases insulin
- Complex carbs (high-molecular weight) are released from the
stomach quickly
- Due to their long chain structure, enzymes must break them down
- Absorption takes place over a longer duration
- More sustained, longer release into the blood stream and less
insulin at once
Drinks with a low osmotic pressure, such as CARBION+, are emptied
from the stomach to the small intestine much quicker. However, due to
the fact that CARBION+ is made up of varying complexities of slow to
fast absorbing carbohydrates, the rate at which they are absorbed by the
small intestine is much slower.
ELECTROLYTES
In addition to the physiological advantages that the lower osmotic
pressure provides, CARBION+ has two other advantages that provide an
even greater benefit. One is the electrolytes within the formula.
Fortified with 4 key electrolytes including: Calcium, Magnesium,
Potassium and Sodium. This provides an even lower osmolality within the
formula and increases the level of hydration of the athlete consuming
it.
ABSORPTION
The second advantage is the blend of three plant extracts; Prickly Pear
Extract, Bitter Melon Extract and D-Pinitol that help to reduce the
threshold at which insulin receptors trigger to signal cells to absorb
nutrients. Simply stated, less insulin is required to initiate the
uptake of blood glucose into cells, meaning more actual fuel in the
muscle and less in the blood.
CARBION+ IS A BETTER WAY TO POWER YOUR WORKOUTS
What CARBION+ has done is to select a broad range of extremely complex
and increasingly less complex engineered carbohydrates to provide a
combination of absorption rates that deliver reliable, sustained energy.
CARBION+ DELIVERS A RELIABLE, SUSTAINED ENERGY SOURCE TO POWER YOU
THROUGH THE TOUGHEST TRAINING
Starting at the high end, AWM2300™ Waxy Maize is highly-branched and
extremely complex and comes in at 200,000 g/mol, next in order of
complexity is the Rice and Potato starch, while lower in inclusion
rates, they are also very high on the molecular weight scale, and range
between 80,000 and 120,000 g/mol, CYCLO-D: Clustered Cyclic Dextrin is
derived from Waxy Maize (Amylopectin) and has a molecular weight of
60,000 g/mol and finally, DE-5™: Dextrin is the least complex coming in
at 45,000 g/mol; all far larger and more complex than the
monosaccharides Glucose, Dextrose or Fructose which is 180 g/mol.
Relative Molecular Weights
- DEXTROSE - 180
- DE-5 DEXTRIN - 45,000
- CYCLO-D - 60,000
- RICE STARCH - 100,000
- POTATO STARCH - 100,000
- WAXY MAIZE - 200,000
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR TRAINING?
What this means for you is a sustained supply of energy for increased
workout intensity and training duration without the bloat or sugar
crash. More to the point, like consuming oats, CARBION+ has the effect
of delivering caloric energy in a manner your body can cope with more
easily, eliminating dramatic insulin spikes and sustaining energy
delivery. By supplementing with CARBION+ during your workout you can
expect a steady supply of training fuel supplied to working muscles,
sparing muscle glycogen depleting, staving off muscle catabolism and
jump starting your recovery.
DO NOT FOOL YOURSELF – REAL RESULTS DO NOT COME FROM LOW CARB
TRAINING. REAL RESULTS COME FROM INTENSITY
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD CARBS!
One of the common reasons people avoid carbs like a mutated strain of
the bubonic plague is that they’ve bought into the hype that carbs make
you fat. Hopefully, you’re past that, but it’s worth getting into. You
know who doesn’t avoid carbs? Every top level Bodybuilder, Top coaches
and trainers, Elite MMA athletes, Endurance athletes and the list goes
on.
The key distinction here of those who should and should not consume
carbs is one of who does and who does not have control of their diet. If
you are consistently consuming simple sugars, eating over-sized meals
and not expending sufficient energy with some form of training, carbs
are not for you!
On the other hand, if you do have a degree of control over your diet
and you are training with sufficient intensity; then carbs are not only
a good idea, they are a MUST!
CARBS ARE NOT ONLY A GOOD IDEA, THEY ARE A MUST!
One of the effects that frequent training has on the body is an
increased number of insulin receptors on muscle tissue and an increase
in their sensitivity. This is your body’s way of Nutrient Partitioning;
that is, shuttling nutrients to active muscles and away from fat stores.
Hard working muscles morph their physiology to consume more energy in
the form of glucose (blood sugar). Limiting calories stunts this
process. On the flip side, increasing the consumption of well-timed
carbohydrates, protein and essential fatty acids will not only increase
the proliferation of insulin receptors, but also increase your
metabolism.
Put simply, training hard increases your ability to uptake larger
amounts of nutrients like glucose out of the blood plasma. In essence,
like a sponge, muscles that are routinely trained hard increase the
amount of energy the can and will consume. Contrast this with a couch
potato whose receptors decrease in number and sensitivity. Any
additional nutrients beyond their already full glycogen stores will
shunt to fat storage.
The moral of this story is, if you train hard and you eat right, make
absolutely sure that you are providing your body with the highest
quality carbs. Starving muscle tissue that is primed by training to take
up glucose in abundance will hurt your training and lower your basal
metabolic rate.
DOES CARBION+ WORK?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, science, polysaccharide blah, blah, blah, BUT DOES IT
WORK in the gym?! We’ve all heard the stories about the theory of why
this or that should work, but does the rubber meet the road? The answer
is yes.
We have found what we believe to be the absolute best combination of
carbohydrates, electrolytes and insulogenics to provide a highly
efficient and energy supply. The mechanism and action of this supply
provides truly superior training in many respects.
- Elevated performance intensity and duration result in greater
muscle stimulation.
- Increases in blood plasma volume and muscle glycogen provide a
profound pump within every training session helping to stretch
muscle fiber and fascia.
- The carbohydrate effect of blunting the rise in cortisol levels
common to intense training results in a dramatic reduction in muscle
tissue breakdown.
After a year in production and testing, test subjects reported
dramatically superior workouts, improved recovery and ability to get
back into the gym faster than normal. Reports have been coming in with
exceptional muscle fullness, great vascularity and stunning pumps.
The ability to remain in the gym training hard for far longer has been
one of the most common reports. This really underscores the value of
having such a well delivered high-quality source of carbohydrates with
efficient delivery; you are effectively fuelled for a greater duration.
This brings a level of intensity to training that simply did not exist
before. Being able to maintain a level of intensity at a far greater
duration brings results. Train with it once, you will feel the
difference the first time. You will not want to train without it again. |