Core
4 Nutrition is a provider of nutritional supplements and at-home assessment
services. The products that Core 4 Nutrition provides are 100%
food based, not filled with chemicals that you cannot pronounce. Why is that
important, you might ask? With food
based ingredients, your body can recognize and utilize the nutrients much
easier. It is much harder to process
artificial or chemical ingredients than natural ones. Your body performs at its best when it has
the optimal levels of nutrients and the people at Core 4 Nutrition have products to
find that balance so you can perform at your best.
Some of the benefits from using Core 4 Nutrition products are easily noticed,
like having more energy. The most
important benefits are the ones that you probably won’t notice though. These include restoring and regenerating your
body beginning at the cellular level.
One of the products that Core 4 Nutrition offers is their Pure Clean Powder. It is 100% natural beet juice powder. Scientific research has shown that eating
nitrate-rich foods on a regular basis will not only optimize your nitric oxide
levels, but will increase your athletic performance. Some people use Nitric Oxide boosters, but
like I stated earlier, many of these powders are full of chemicals and can have
some rather nasty side effects.
The instructions say that you should
take Pure Clean
Powder on a daily basis and that you should eat plenty of nitrate-rich
foods like kale, arugula, spinach, celery, pomegranate, berries and
chocolate. You can get your Pure Clean Powder
in a tub or in individual packets. Each
scoop or packet is equal to 1 whole beet.
Along with the Pure Clean Powder,
it is a good idea to get the Salivary Nitric
Oxide Assessment Strips.
The Salivary Nitric
Oxide Assessment Strips comes in a package with 10 strips for $15.00. You simply take the test strip out of the
wrapper, put one side on your tongue and bend the test strip in half to
transfer the saliva to the area that will provide your reading. After 45 seconds, you have your results. The pinker the strip turns; the more nitrates
that are present in your body. That is important
because some people will be able to increase the level of nitrates in their
body with one serving of Pure Clean Powder
per day and some other will need more than one.
I got 30 of the single serve packets in
the mail along with 10 of the Salivary Nitric
Oxide Assessment Strips. I started
by adding one packet of the Pure Clean Powder
into my berry smoothie every morning. I
tested my saliva every 3 days as per the directions. My levels were fairly low when I started and
after about 15 days, the results were getting pinker, but were fairly faint
still.
I decided to start taking 2 packets per
day. I would take one packet in the
morning mixed in my berry smoothie, and I would mix a second packet in 8 ounces
of 100% Orange Pineapple Banana juice in the afternoon. I started to see my test strips become more
pink.
So here is the difficult part. I have been training really hard, using the
Run Less Run Faster plan. While I could
just tell you that all of my gains are as a result of taking the Pure Clean Powder,
I would say that the training does have a lot to do with my progress as
well. Please take that into consideration. I ran a half marathon PR of just under
1:50:00 in late February. I started
using the Run Less Run Faster plan shortly after that with the goal (for the
year) of reaching a 1:45:00 half marathon.
My tempo runs before this training were around 8:30 min/mile if I was
pushing it.
I started taking Pure Clean Powder
about 30 days ago and that is when my times really started to change. With my new training plan and incorporating Pure Clean Powder,
I was easily running at 7:45 min/mile on my tempo runs and sometimes as fast as
7:30 min/mile. I ran a 13.1 mile training
run about 3 weeks ago. I finished it in
1:45:00 and even had to make an emergency pit stop (which cost me about 1
minute). My total time, not including
the stop was under 1:44:00. I met my
goal for the year!
Two weeks after that I ran the Capital
City Classic 10-mile race. My goal was
to run at an average pace of 7:45, which is faster than I have ever raced
before. One of my training partners
paced me and I finished at an average pace of 7:44 min/mile. That was good enough for 3rd place
in my age group, which was amazing because I’ve never placed before.
The reality is that I do feel the
difference when I run and I feel like I recover more quickly since I started
taking the Pure
Clean Powder. Is it 100% the Pure Clean Powder
or does my training have something to do with it? I would have to say that it’s a combination
of the two, but the Pure Clean Powder
definitely helped. While the taste does take a little while to get used to, I
found that putting it in my smoothie or in the juice made it easy to drink.
Pros:
Great source of nitrates
The single serve packets are easy to
take with you
Decent price
No artificial ingredients, just whole
beets.
Cons:
It doesn’t taste great alone (but is
good mixed in with your smoothie or juice).
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I was extremely pleased with the
service and products from Core 4
Nutrition. The Pure Clean Powder
and Salivary
Nitric Oxide Assessment Strips worked well and I will be using them again
in June. I will begin taking the Pure Clean Powder
with the Fundamino
blend next month and will do another review after I complete those
packages. You can buy the 30-Serving
Canister or 30
single serve packets of Pure Clean Powder for $39.00. You can get 10 single serve
packets of the Pure Clean Powder for $17.00. The Fundamino’s are $49.00 for
30 servings and you can get 10 Salivary
Nitric Oxide Assessment strips for $15.00. I have worked out a deal with Core 4 Nutrition
for my readers and you can get 20% off of the Pure Clean Powder
and Fundaminos by
entering the code RRR20 at checkout.
Give it a try and find out why pro endurance athletes and the average
Joe are all giving beet juice a try.
Note: I received this product
in exchange for a review. The review is my personal opinion of the
product and I was not required to give a particular opinion of it. I am not a doctor, so please use all of the
products that I review at your own risk.
