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BCAA Free = Body Fat Free | Do BCAAs Make Us Fat or Are They Elevated when We're Fat? Study Suggests the Former

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First fat, then carbs and now protein? Are we ever going to stop pointing fingers at individual macronutrients and acknowledge that it's our caloric excess that's making us fat? As a SuppVersity reader the notion that the BCAA levels of obese mammals are chronically elevated is no news for you. In fact, I've written about the potential link between BCAAs and obesity repeatedly over past decade and the findings have been astonishingly consistent: Branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs; leucine, isoleucine, and valine) are elevated in the blood of obese, insulin-resistant humans and rodents. What is not consistent, though, is the interpretation of this observation. In most previous articles I've highlighted that the "BCAA question" is - eventually - yet another of those nasty chicken-or-egg questions, where the accumulation of BCAAs in the blood could be both, a cause or consequence of metabolic disease. Learn more about amino acid and BCAA supplements at ...
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The Muscle Building Magic of Additional(!) Leucine: 1.68g Leucine in Your Intra-Workout EAA Mixture is Good, Twice the Amount is 33% Better, Though!

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Image 1:  Buying L-Leucine in bulk can save a lot of money; plus, it gives you the advantage of being able to adapt the leucine to EAA ratio, whenever you read about new study results on the SuppVersity ;-)  . I don't know if I can actually call it 'news', when I tell you that intra-workout consumption of the branched-chain amino acid leucine will help you build muscle, but I am pretty sure that you, just like me, have always been wondering whether the provision of leucine in a more 'natural' EAA composition would produce the same, or even better results . Although a number of leucine -enhanced products, i.e. EAA or BCAA products which contain more leucine than the standard 2:1:1 formulas, have been hitting the market, lately, Pasiakos et al. are the first who put the (acknowledgedly plausible) hypothesis that BCAA, or, in this case, EAA formulas with a higher than normal leucine content would elicit greater protei...
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