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The Neurotransmitter Depleting Effects of Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs) and Their Potential Ergolytic, Anxiogenic & Depressive Downstream Effects

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Oh yes, this will happen despite if not because you've taken large amounts of BCAA before the workout. Usually you don't put the cart before the horse, but I guess you won't mind if I do so and postpone a summary of the information on magnesium from yesterday's installment of the Science Round-Up to tomorrow, when this means that we are going to take care of the "BCAA crisis" today. Ok, maybe "crisis" is not the best word to describe the reverberations the recent publication of a study by SuJean Choi et al. should be having (=nobody buys BCAAs anymore), but I was looking for something better than the usual "the truth about..." Science, and I am not going to tire repeating that, is after all not about truth (that's what the confessional box is about), but about experimentally verifiable/verified and non-verifiable/non-verified hypothesis (Popper. 1994). BCAAs can have ergolytic effects - A verifiable hypotheses? Based on the ...
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Branched Chain Amino Magic: Study Takes Another Step Towards a Better Understanding of the Anabolic & Anticatabolic Effects of BCAAs and Their Essential Cousins

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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...
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