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hey guys today we’re gonna talk about

branch chain amino acids okay a lot of

times people take them to think that

they’re gonna build muscle and that is a

total myth the first thing I want to

talk about is what is an amino acid

amino acid is the building block to

proteins okay so look at it like

alphabet you have all these letters that

make words that form a language in the

body with amino acids you have all these

different combinations from simple to

very complex protein structures made

from amino acids I mean from muscle to

skin to enzymes to hormones to bone

almost the entire body is made out of

amino acids so there are actually three

branched chain amino acids leucine

isoleucine and valine okay now normally

we have nine essential amino acids that

means this they’re essential because

your body can’t make them you must get

them from the diet okay so we’re talking

about three we’re missing six we need

nine to build muscle now there are

actually no human studies that show that

taking a branch amino acids either in a

powder form or a pill form will increase

muscle synthesis or a muscle building

now not only will it not build muscle

but it won’t even prevent muscle loss

now there are actually two intravenous

studies that showed that it decreased

protein synthesis okay so what does it

do it turns into fuel so you may

experience a little bit of energy while

you’re working out maybe a little

improvement in performance but no muscle

growth so you need all nine essential

amino acids for recovery for repair for

growth of proteins and as a side note

seventy percent of the muscle loss that

you get is recycled alright so the

amount of protein that we need actually

is not as much as you think now when you

do fasting and you get your body into a

tofu G which is the recycling of old

damaged proteins this number does go up

we don’t know to what

degree but it is higher than 70 all

right guys

there you have it that is the myth of

the branched-chain amino acid thanks for

watching I’ll see you in the next video

when you have all nine you get recovery

you get repair whoops

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