Are BCAA’s a waste?

Please do not be one of these mental midgets promoting false disproven broscience claims of BCAA’s

2017 the sports nutrition market saw a 42% drop in bcaa sales WORLDWIDE. Why? Because the scam is up! They do not offer any of the benefits claimed for years.

• Taken before cardio do not prevent muscle loss

• leucine taken pre training reduces performance

• valine/ isoleucine drive muscle loss

• recent studies show diets LOW in bcaa’s reduced bodyfat in mice.

••• With the exception of leucine post-exercise for enhancing mTOR, protein synthesis and recovery.

✅ Key points

We recently found that feeding healthy mice a diet with reduced levels of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs), which are associated with insulin resistance in both humans and rodents, modestly improves glucose tolerance and slows fat mass gain.

In the present study, we show that a reduced BCAA diet promotes rapid fat mass loss without calorie restriction in obese mice.

Selective reduction of dietary BCAAs also restores glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity to obese mice, even as they continue to consume a high-fat, high-sugar diet.

A low BCAA diet transiently induces FGF21 (fibroblast growth factor 21) and increases energy expenditure.

We suggest that dietary protein quality (i.e. the precise macronutrient composition of dietary protein) may impact the effectiveness of weight loss diets.