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“This actually helps. So this is actually really, really important. The next thing is to supplement with essential amino acids. So you might be thinking, well, if I'm eating protein, why the essential amino acids? Well, here's why. Essential amino acids add an additional layer of insurance to keep muscle.”
“They're easy to consume. So like a protein shake in some cases, you might feel like you got to choke down. But essential amino acids, they come in capsules or powder and it tastes like water. And so you can drink this in between meals. And this really does help preserve muscle.”
“Oh, wow, okay. So, you could take it fasted, but you're just getting it less, less of a dose because I work out fasted. Um, I take something called perfect amino, which is just all nine essential amino acids. Um, I don't like the full feeling, but I eat right after I'm done working out.”
“And so the studies on branch chains saying it's basically flavored water is comparing branch chains to essential amino acids, right? Branch chains are essential amino acids.”
“or essential amino acids. Right. And then they see muscle protein synthesis. Well, it goes up more with essential amino acids because the essential amino acids are also providing the branch chains, but it's also providing the 17 other amino acids, right?”
“Right. They turn on the muscle protein synthesis. Then you have the whole food providing the rest of those essential amino acids that the leucine is now going to use, right? Because it turned on muscle to build the protein.”
“Something like that. Yeah, I'm a big fan of omega-food. I would say branch chains or essential amino acids. I would put on that list because as we talked about, you're only getting, you know, maybe 50 to 60% of the amino acids from your whole food meals, right?”