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Essential Amino Acids

December 7, 2015 By Dr. Mike Leave a Comment

What are the muscle-building benefits of amino acids, especially the buzzed-about BCAAs (branched-chain amino acids)? Amino acids are the building blocks that make up protein. Your body puts them together like Legos to create muscle. While your body can make some from scratch (called non-essential amino acids), you have to obtain others (essential amino acids), […]

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“What Are The Best BCAA Food Sources?”

April 8, 2015 By Dr. Mike Leave a Comment

BCAAs were crucial nutrition for humans long before they were a supplement. Here’s how some popular protein sources stack up in amino content! Branched-chain amino acid supplements are extremely popular for boosting protein synthesis during and after training sessions, in addition to providing a convenient between-meal spike in the muscle-building amino leucine. However, with the […]

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Morning Supplement Regimen

October 2, 2012 By Dr. Mike 3 Comments

I’ve received several questions lately regarding what supplements that I take. My core supplementation stays pretty much the same. Some things, like probiotics, will cycle in and out of my routine but the above image is pretty standard. Multivitamin – Currently using Anavite. This is a great multivitamin as it contains 3.2 grams of beta-alanine and 2 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Peak Wellness Tagged With: BCAA, Creatine, curucmin, fish oil, Multivitamin, probiotics, resveratrol, Supplements, Vitamin D, ZMA

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