ArcBound said:
nice broscience bro.
Maltodextrin is bad because its a high GI "carb". Not because its a neurotoxin.
@Fugly, well it was Allegory that called him out in the first place lol. He's the official bs caller on this forum.
@PDubb75 Good stuff on the ON whey. Never tried their amino energy. Doesn't whey= protein which equals long chains of amino acids? I could see the caffeine helping in the ON Amino Energy, but wouldn't you already get the necessary amino acids from whey?
Ya I'm just backin' Allegory up! :trouble:
Regarding your question to PDubb, there's lots of different schools of thought on this. Whey is a highly bioavailable complete protein. Whey isolate is digested quickly by our guts and absorbed fast into the blood stream.
Common amino acids that people supplement with include glutamine and the branched chain amino acids (BCAA), name valine, leucine and isoleucine. Glutamine is a conditionally essential AA, while BCAAs are essential. BCAAs are empirically used by people doing a lot of cardio as they help to hang on to muscle. Glutamine is supposed to help recovery and immune function.
Both have been studies for therapeutic uses. We actually give supplementary glutamine to our burn patients. The data on BCAAs are a bit more complex and inconclusive as you'll see with this study:
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/134/6/1583S.full
Personally I've used significant amounts of glutamine (30+ g/day) when I was doing a lot of power and track work and my glutes/legs and posterior chain were getting beat up a lot. At the time however, my diet was not nearly as good as it is today. With my current training program I feel like I can recover w/o using glutamine... again, I think this is likely because my diet is a lot better.
I'm just starting to take BCAAs around training time. Its not something I use religiously. My fiance is around 4 weeks out from her next comp, and she's doing 1 hour of low intensity cardio daily as per her trainer... she swears by BCAAs. Here's a great article that explains why BCAA supplementation is probably a good idea for anyone who's looking to hold onto muscle during cardio and even resistance training:
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/134/6/1583S.full
