Originally Posted by
wolfchild
This is a very bad nutritional advice...Human body needs all the essential amino acids and not just BCAAs in order to be healthy and function at optimal levels... BCAAs are also a lot more expensive than whey powder and there is some debate as to whether they actually work or not. It's never a good idea to eliminate real food and substitute it with pills. My advice is to forget about BCAAs and use protein powder and get your protein from real food.
But Shona have problem with
calcium supplements
I don't say you should skip real foods either, that not my point.
I do supports eating real foods, you should always eat foods.
And next, BCAAs is the most important factor, EAA and non-EAA is so plentiful, its everywhere you from what eat, even veggies have it, even junk foods have it. The only missing amino acids is BCAAs as I mentioned above, you get that from eat real meat/real protein/animal stuffs, its use for build and repair muscles. To preserve muscles mass or even growth it.
BCAAs is in every Protein, you get BCAAs that occur naturally in Protein, I just go beyond Protein, go directly to the BCAAs.
Again, I do supports normal eat first.
Originally Posted by
KraneXL
I'm pretty sure the assumption is to add the BCAA on top of your normal protein intake. However, you are correct in that BCAA are expensive and already contained in whey protein. The idea is that if you single them out they will be more effective. I'd estimate 3-5% and not worth the extra cost.
Ah, let's talk about prices, yeah BCAAs usually (most) expensive than Whey, I don't argue that.
But you know what the funny, in my country, Whey is expensive than BCAAs, that why I say "go check store near your place see if you see a hot deal".
In other word, if its expensive, don't bother with it, guess I am not clear on this point.