TweetThe Truth About BCAA's and the Dirty Secret Supplement Companies are Hiding
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It has been long known and clinically proven that BCAA supplementation is crucial to muscle recovery and reducing exercise induced muscle damage during workouts. BCAA's allow elite athletes to push themselves harder, recovery quicker, and prevent muscle loss from demanding training sessions. Pushing yourself to the limits in the gym is a key ingredient to your progress and BCAA's allow you to preserve and build new muscle tissue during these intense workouts.



What BCAA's do is not the point of this article, where do they come from is the most important question you need to ask yourself when purchasing your next BCAA product. The majority of the supplement companies derive their BCAA products from poultry by-products like animal hair, feathers, and beaks. This makes it very cheap for companies to manufacture their amino acids and has been hidden from consumers for a long time. Even with the use of sweeteners there has always been an underlying unpleasant smell and taste to most of the BCAA products on the market because of this.



When I first became aware of this I immediately began looking for alternative sources away from this common practice, to make sure I was giving my body the highest quality sources of BCAA's and keeping my body in optimal health. I went directly to the top ingredient suppliers in the world and the clear answer unanimously is vegetable sourced amino acids are the highest quality and most bio available source of free form amino acids on the market. These are derived directly from vegetable sources, rather than the nasty animal by-products the majority of companies use.



From the first trial there was a very pleasant smell which was very different from the other BCAA products I have previously used. The taste was a lot crisper with zero stomach discomfort or digestion issues, which many get from animal sourced products. In sports nutrition we have the habit of looking at performance of ingredients with little attention to their sources or how they can effect our overall health. Being in optimal health is crucial to maximizing your performance in the gym. Maximum absorption and clean ingredient sources are a crucial to elite level performance. Chugging down feathers and beaks in the gym might not be the best way to reach your full potential during intense workouts or to aid in recovering from them.



Vegetable sources may cost a few extra dollars but it is a no brainer to get the most out of your next supplement purchase. BCAA's are a staple to any serious athletes training regimen and you want to make sure you are getting the highest quality available sources for maximum absorption.

TweetDamn, no wonder they taste nasty lol

The majority of the supplement companies derive their BCAA products from poultry by-products like animal hair, feathers, and beaks.