Aor BCAA 300 Grams

AOR BCAA 300 Grams:

Build and Maintain Muscles with BCAA's.

Aor's BCAA is of the vegetarian source in an ideal ratio. BCAA provides specific amino acids necessary for protein synthesis, enhancing muscle retention, recovery, and repair post-workout. It helps control blood sugar and blood glucose regulating hormone levels.

Branched Chain Amino Acids are a group of essential amino acids that includes L-leucine, L-isoleucine and L-valine.  Studies have shown that these amino acids are involved in protein synthesis.

Branch chain amino acids (BCAAs) include three essential amino acids that cannot be made within the body and must be obtained through diet: leucine, isoleucine and valine. Unlike other amino acids, BCAAs are primarily processed inside the mitochondria of muscle tissue, making them extremely effective at stimulating muscle building. In mitochondria BCAA get into the Kreb’s cycle where ATP, or energy, is made. Taking BCAAs prior to exercise may inhibit protein breakdown during exercise and optimize protein synthesis post-exercise. BCAA plasma levels peak about 30 minutes after ingestion.

Although protein in general is needed to stimulate muscle growth, BCAAs and leucine in particular are vital to muscle growth and repair. It is suggested that protein blends without leucine did not actually stimulate muscle development. When taken before and after exercise, BCAAs can prevent protein breakdown and enhance recovery time by reducing muscle soreness. leucine modulates the secretion of glucose regulating hormone or its actions on muscle cells. Glycogen is a quick energy supply for working muscles. The more muscle glycogen stores can be increased, the more energy is available for the next exercise session, resulting in better performance. In terms of protein anabolism, the importance of leucine is demonstrated by the fact that when all amino acids are supplemented except leucine, protein synthesis decreases by 40%!

Isoleucine exerts a hypoglycemic effect that has been observed in humans. It stimulates glucose uptake into the cells and may inhibit glucose synthesis in the liver. This is good news for those with diabetes! Isoleucine also appears to signal glucose usage (catabolism, or breakdown) for energy production in order to spare glycogen and protein from being used to produce energy. This helps to maintain muscle mass and basal fuel levels that help with general muscle function.

Valine helps make glycogen in the liver , also may enhance fat metabolism.

Exercise is well known to stimulate protein synthesis and therefore muscle growth. An exciting discovery is that BCAA can also stimulate protein synthesis, even without exercise! Protein synthesis is thought to be activated by a process called phosphorylation of certain protein enzymes. Exercise and BCAAs can stimulate some of the same enzymes; however, BCAAs can also potentiate the activity of the enzymes activated by exercise as well as activate other enzymes that are not stimulated by exercise. Leg exercise, when accompanied by BCAA supplementation, activated the enzyme p70(S6k) up to 30-fold in exercising muscle and up to 16-fold even in muscles that were not exercising! The peak activity of these enzymes appears to be between 30-120 minutes post-exercise. One session of exercise did not affect this specific enzyme at all without BCAA supplementation.

BCAAs provide beneficial effects in strength training, including reducing muscle soreness and fatigue and assisting in strength gains. Consuming a BCAA drink 15 minutes prior to performing repetitive squat exercises shortened the period of peak delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) from days 2 and 3 to only day 2 in the test group, and also lowered the intensity of muscle soreness for 4 days after exercise, particularly in females. There was also a tendency toward less muscle fatigue immediately post-exercise and in the 4 days afterward. Supplementing 4g of leucine per day during a 12-wk strength training program in untrained males helped with strength gains compared to the placebo group in all 8 exercises, although only 5 were significantly greater.

BCAAs may also be helpful in post-exercise recovery in endurance athletes, better preparing them for a good subsequent performance. A leucine-rich protein and carbohydrate-rich drink to trained endurance cyclists helped reduce overall fatigue, and lower plasma CK levels, possibly indicating reduced muscle damage or faster muscle repair.

Because BCAAs have been found to help reduce perceived overall fatigue, one theory suggests that they may have central effects in the brain on fatigue and mood.  Using BCAA as an adjunct treatment for acute mania suggest that BCAAs may help control manic episodes, probably by competing with tyrosine for uptake into the brain. This benefit was continued on a positive trend a week after ending the treatment in the BCAA group while the placebo group displayed a regressive trend.

BCAAs can also help preserve muscle in people in weakened conditions. They support muscle maintenance, and have the unique ability to promote muscle growth in non-exercising muscles when other muscles are worked. BCAAs may also help control blood sugar and glucose regulating hormone, and have been suggested to help balance mood. Ultimately, BCAAs are indicated for frail and elderly people just as much as strength athletes and exercise enthusiasts to promote strength and independence. Any bodybuilder or competitive athlete will know the importance of supplementing with BCAAs to enhance their muscular health and performance, and so should you.

Ingredients:

Non-medicinal Ingredients: Soy Lecithin

Purity: Vegan, Non GMO, no ingredients not listed on the label have been added to the product. Contains no wheat, gluten, corn, nuts, dairy, eggs, fish, shellfish, or animal byproduct.

Suggested Adult Dose: Take 1 scoop (5 g) mixed with water or juice daily before a meal, or as directed by a qualified health care practitioner.

Cautions: Do not use if pregnant or nursing. Consult a health care practitioner for use beyond 90 days, if you have liver or kidney disease, or if you have been instructed to follow a low protein diet.

Main Applications: Muscle recovery and repair, Blood sugar control, Mood support.