Branched Chain Amino Magic: Study Takes Another Step Towards a Better Understanding of the Anabolic & Anticatabolic Effects of BCAAs and Their Essential Cousins
Image 1: Without the other essential amino acids (EAAs), the branched chain amino acids, leucine, isoleucine and valine (BCAAs) have nothing to "build" your muscle from ;-) Usually, I do not get very excited, when I hit upon another study into the "protein-synthetic response" that is triggered by the ingestion of branched chain amino acids (BCAAs). I mean, let's be honest... we all know that their ingestion will trigger the phosphorylation of the mammalian target of rapamycin and thusly increase protein synthesis , so why would we need another study where instead of a 17.5% increase in protein synthesis, we would see a 18.3% increase? Actually, we don't... the data Marcus Borgenvik, William Apró and Eva Blomstrand from the Åstrand Laboratory, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences and the Karolinska Institutet , in Stockholm, Sweden ( Borgenvik. 2011 ), collected goes yet well beyond what we have seen in most of the previous studies and is thus we...