Special Features
- Supports an active lifestyle
- Glucose to fuel muscles
- Essential mineral body salts (electrolytes) to maintain fluid balance
- Body fluid and muscle fluid buffering systems to help avoid cramping – including night cramps
- Vitamins essential for converting glucose into energy
- Added benefit of selenium
- Delicious (non-salty) apply flavour
- No stimulants or preservatives
Formulated supplementary sports food –
Energy supplement for Seniors
Survivall Seniors is a new generation energy and fluid replacement supplement – especially effective when used in conjunction with an exercise program. The special formulation provides sustained levels of energy, helps avoid cramping and supplies mineral salts to maintain electrolyte balance and hydration.
Survivall Seniors has been developed to maintain the well-being of seniors.
As we grow older:-
- We tend to undertake less physical activity
- The body fluid content of our bodies begins to fall leading to dehydration
- Our sense of thirst diminishes
Survivall Seniors helps combat these factors by:
- Stimulating more physical activity. Survivall Seniors contains a high level of
pure glucose, the most readily available source of energy to fuel muscles - Rehydrating the body by suppling essential mineral body salts (electrolytes)
to maintain fluid balance - Encouraging the consumption of more fluids because Survivall Seniors is a pleasant tasting drink with a delicious apple flavour. It does not have a salty taste. It does not contain preservatives or stimulants.
Mineral body sales (electrolytes) within body fluid systems
Survivall Seniors contains the scientific duplication of essential body salts (electrolytes) in the blood, muscle and body tissue systems. Without these essential mineral body salts, all living bodies cease to function properly.
Survivall Seniors incorporates a unique delivery system which closely relates to natural body requirements when under physical stress.
The function of mineral body salts:
1. |
Electrolytes are a major component within our body fluid systems which carry nutrients and oxygen to various tissues and organs to maintain life. |
2. |
Electrolytes are used in the body for converting carbohydrate into glucose which is stored as glycogen in the liver or muscle cells as an energy source. |
3. |
Electrolyte exchange between muscle tissue cells is responsible for the ability of the muscle tissues to function efficiently under a prolonged period of work. |
4. |
Electrolytes maintain the body’s osmotic pressure and fluid content within each tissue cell compartment. |
5. |
Electrolytes dispose of the body wastes generated from normal metabolism and by-products generated from stress or physical work. |
The Function of Cell Buffer Systems
During muscular activity glucose is utilised as an energy source. The by-product of glucose metabolism is lactic acid. Accumulation of lactic acid within tissue cells is the major factor for tiring and lack of stamina to perform work continuously.
Cell buffer systems helps avoid the build up of lactic acid and allow the muscle to completely utilise the glucose stored in the muscles to produce energy for work performance.
Scientific experiments on muscle function have indicated when 25% of the stored glucose within a muscle tissue is used, the accumulation of lactic acid will prevent the muscle from performing work (cramping). When cell buffer systems are added muscles will resume work until all stored glucose is completely used.
Vitamins C and B6, supported with additional B vitamins
Both of these vitamins are essential for glucose metabolism which gives the body energy to work. In addition both vitamins detoxify the body waste generated from work and metabolism.
In day to day living the average adult will require 2 to 3 litres of water per day, viz 1 to 1.5L for perspiration and 1 to 1.5L for urine excretion.
Problems arise when a body is placed under abnormal stress, such as caused by exercising for long duration; disease symptoms such as fever, vomiting and diarrhoea and exposure to a hot climate, all of which can cause copious loss of water and electrolytes.
Dehydration severely limits subsequent sweating, places dangerous demands on circulation, reduces exercise capacity and exposes the participant to health hazards associated with hyperthermia, such as heat stroke, heat exhaustion and muscular cramps.
Such fluid and concomitant electrolyte losses need to be replaced quickly and efficiently if decrements to performance and health are to be avoided.
Selenium
Selenium is an essential nutrient obtained from food. However selenium is often in short supply in Australian and New Zealand soil and animal feeds. Besides its many nutritional and medical benefits selenium has been shown to improve mood and decrease anxiety. Trials have also shown that optimal selenium intake becomes increasingly important in the latter decades of life.
Survivall Seniors improves health and well being by:-
1. |
Providing a high level of pure glucose, the most readily available source of energy to fuel muscles. |
2. |
Hydrating the muscular cells with the proper proportions (quality and quantity) of mineral body salts |
3. |
Delivering high potassium loading into muscular cells. |
4. |
Supplying sufficient sodium to extracellular fluid. |
5. |
Delivering quality and quantity of cell buffers to muscles. |
6. |
Elimination of soluble ammonia waste through urine (detoxification). |
7. |
Having a pleasant apple flavour without being salty. |
Survivall Seniors has the following attributes:-
1. |
Quickly absorbed (≤ 30-40 minutes mouth to muscle) |
2. |
Helps avoid the build up of lactic acid which causes cramping |
3. |
Disposes of metabolic waste (≤ 30-45 minutes). |
4. |
Contains no stimulants. |
5. |
Contains no preservatives. |
6. |
May be consumed hot or cold. |
7. |
Promotes a feeling of wellbeing. |
Survivall Seniors Sports Supplement is a food product which complies with the Formulated Supplementary Sports Foods Standard. This Standard defines and regulates the composition and labelling of foods especially formulated to assist sports people in achieving specific nutritional or performance goals.
Hydration and the Elderly
Dehydration is one of the most common causes of hospitalization among persons older than 65 years. It has been estimated that half of the elderly patients admitted for clinical dehydration die within one year of admission.
The following factors lead to clinical and sub-clinical dehydration among seniors:
- Lower percentage of body fluids
- Lack of awareness of hydration needs
- Lack of mental clarity and attentiveness to personal needs
- Illnesses that accelerate water loss by inducing vomiting, fever and /or diarrhoea
- Decline of thirst sensation with age
As we age the water content of our bodies declines from a high of about 78% at birth to a low of about 50% in the senior years. Gradual total-body dehydration is a hallmark of the aging process. In addition the preponderance of body water shifts gradually with age from cell interiors to the exterior connective tissue. Long-term chronic disease eventually wears the body down to the point at which patients can no longer ingest water and food, thus they ultimately succumb to dehydration.
To make matters worse sense of thirst declines with age. The adverse effect of aging on thirst was demonstrated in a study comparing the responses of elderly men (ages 67 to 75 years) and young men (ages 20 to 31 years). After a period of water deprivation, the older men were less thirsty and drank less after water deprivation than the younger men. The older men did not drink enough to dilute their plasma and urine to pre-dehydration levels. Researchers concluded that after water deprivation “there is a deficit in thirst and water intake in healthy elderly men, as compared with younger men”.
As with other nutritional deficiencies, chronic sub-clinical dehydration contributes to the aging process. In its struggle for survival the body is designed to adjust metabolic processes to compensate for deficits in nutritional intake, including water but the adjustment comes at a high price. Energy and biochemical resources, which could have been used to maintain a more youthful tissue integrity and physical vigour, must be redirected. These resources are shifted away from processes that increase longevity toward those that improve the odds for short-term survival and the process of aging accelerates.
Exercises for the Elderly
From peak function at the age of 30 the functional capacity of most organ systems decreases at a rate of about 0.75% to 1% per year. Physical work capacity, muscle strength and mass, flexibility, cardiac output, maximum heart rate, vital capacity and renal and liver function all decline approximately 30% between the ages of 30 and 70. Moreover by the age of 70, women lose 30% and men about 15% of their bone mass. Approximately 50% of this decrease in function can be attributed to decreased physical activity. The following comment is according to one investigator.
”Because of their low functional status and high incidence of chronic disease there is no segment of the population that can benefit more from exercise than the elderly”.
It has been shown that a program of even once or twice weekly resistance training can confer muscle strength gains similar to training 3 days per week in older adults. Moreover 1 to 2 days a week is associated with improved neuromuscular performance. Such improvement could potentially reduce the risk of falls and fracture in older adults.
Exercise training can help to offset the decline associated with aging and illness. Elderly males and females can help to maintain bone mass and increase their physical work capacity through improving their endurance, strength, flexibility and body composition.
These positive changes are demonstrated regardless of previous exercise patterns and current fitness status. The degree of improvement (expressed in relative terms) is comparable to that demonstrated by younger individuals, although the mechanism for the improvement may differ.
The older individual may need to begin exercising at a lower intensity and progress more slowly than a younger subject, but with time the benefits will be the same.
(Hydration and exercise paragraphs taken from textbook of Natural Medicine Third Edition Vol 1 2006 p368, 1404 by Joseph E Pizzorno Jr, Michael T Murray)
How to Use
Mix the contents of one serve in 250mL cold or hot water and allow to dissolve fully. Drink as required and consume within 8 hours.
Nutritional Information
Serving Size 250mL Servings per pack 1
|
Per 250mL serve |
Per 100mL |
Energy |
488kj(116 Cal) |
195kj(47 Cal) |
Protein |
0g |
0g |
Fat |
0g |
0g |
Carbohydrates |
29g |
11.6g |
Vitamin C |
20mg(50% RDI) |
8mg |
Vitamin B3 |
5mg(50% RDI) |
2mg |
Vitamin B5 |
0.5mg |
0.2mg |
Vitamin B6 |
0.5mg(31% RDI) |
0.6mg |
Vitamin B12 |
1mcg(50 RDI) |
0.4mcg |
Magnesium |
32mg(10% RDI) |
12.8mg |
Phosphorous |
100mg(10% RDI) |
40mg |
Potassium |
120mg (3.1mmol) |
48mg |
Sodium |
90mg (3.9mmol) |
36mg |
Selenium |
25mcg(36% RDI) |
10mcg |
Ingredients
Glucose, citric acid, sodium phosphates, potassium, chloride, magnesium, sulphate, sodium citrate, selenium, vitamins B3 B5 B6 B12 & C, apple flavour.
Not suitable for diabetics, children under 15 years or pregnant women. Gluten free.
Does not contain stimulants, artificial colours or sweeteners or preservatives.
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