Among the most beneficial
and effective supplements in any sports nutrition program are BCAA
(Branch Chain Amino Acids). These are the essential amino acids:
Leucine, Isoleucine, and Valine, which make up BCAA™.
Benefits of BCAA™:
- Stimulates
Protein Synthesis.
- Reduces Muscle Breakdown.
- Improves
Both Mental & Physical Performance.
- Prolongs Moderate
Exercise Performance in Heat.
Features of BCAA™:
BCAA™'s, the core
ingredients of Muscle Guard™, features many advantages to conserve
muscle mass and to reduce muscle breakdown.
BCAA™
supplementation, before and after exercise, has beneficial effects for
decreasing exercise-induced muscle damage and promoting muscle-protein
synthasis.1
BCAA™'s are not only substrate for protein synthesis, but also
modulate several components to the synthetic machinery and help to
conserve muscle mass.2
BCAA™ supplementation may prevent muscle loss during chronic
hypobaric hypoxia.3
Intake of BCAA™ during exercise can prevent or decrease the net rate of
protein degradation caused by intense exercise.4
BCAA™ supplementation can reverse the reduction in serum glutamine
concentration observed after prolonged intense exercise such as an
Olympic triathlon.5
Consumption of BCAA™ before or during endurance exercise may
improve both mental and physical performance.6.
Support Studies
The result of studies suggest that an intake of BCAA™ has an
anabolic effect on protein metabolism during the recovery period after
exercise rather than during the actual exercise.7
An experimental result indicated that ingestion of BCAA™ reduces
the perceived exertion and mental fatigue during exercise and improves
cognitive performance after the exercise.8
The data suggests that increased BCAA™ availability before
exercise, when initial muscle glycogen is normal, results in
significantly greater plasma NH3 response during exercise than placebo
administration.9
No toxic effects of BCAA™'s were observed in human at a dose of
2.5 g/kg/day for 3 months or 1.25 g/kg/day for 1 year. There are no
reports concerning BCAA toxicity in relation to exercise and sports.10
A variety of regimen has been studied in human clinical trial. No
adverse reaction was reported with the consumption of 14, 30, 22 and 40 g
/ day.11.
