Q: Can you please tell me the difference between CELLMASS® and N.O.-XPLODE™? Both have creatine and help with pumps, but which one is better?

A: The combination of taking N.O.-XPLODE™ pre-training and CELLMASS® post-training is called the “bookend” approach to supplementation, which is a means to realizing the greatest gains in muscle size and strength. Your first bookend is N.O.-XPLODE™. Take it pre-workout for incredible energy, an outstanding mind-muscle connection, and amazing pumps and strength increases while you train. Post-workout (your second “bookend”) and before bed you will take CELLMASS®. Your workouts stimulate muscle growth. CELLMASS® supports this process by promptly replenishing glutamine and creatine/phosphocreatine lost during exercise, and enhancing muscle cell volumization. To summarize, N.O.-XPLODE™ is a pre-workout performance and pump-enhancing formula, while CELLMASS® is a post-training/nighttime formula, which supports faster muscle repair and recovery, and, thereby, growth. Though both products do creatine analogs, they are very different formulas and serve different purposes. One is not better than the other, and they should be thought of as a combination, and not mutually exclusive.

Q: CELLMASS® contains glutamine, and NITRIX® says to limit my consumption of glutamine. There are times in the day when my servings of CELLMASS® and NITRIX™ coinside. Can I take them together, or do I have to wait a certain amount of time?

A: When taking NITRIX®, you are able to take your serving of CELLMASS® at the exact same time. The reference to the amino acid glutamine that we refer to is its free form state. An amino acid is typically one portion of a chain of amino acids that make up a protein. This peptide bonding, gives the amino acids strength and stability. By isolating an amino acid, returning it to its free form state, it may lose some stability, thus not absorb fully and efficiently. In the case of glutamine, unabsorbed glutamine converts to ammonia gas, which has been found to inhibit nitric oxide production. With CELLMASS®, we have given glutamine stability by bonding it to AKG (Alpha-Ketoglutarate). AKG is a Krebs Cycle intermediate and acts similarly to a leash. To simplify, the cells recognize AKG as part of the Krebs Cycle and as such, let it in, so to speak. Whatever is bound to that AKG, will enter the cell as well. So the glutamine in CELLMASS® is stable, lending itself to muscle recovery, and not hindering nitric oxide production.

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