Hey guys, thanks for all of your feed back. I recently hit up a vitamin shoppe and found “Modern BCAA” which is ultra micronized with no artificial flavors or dyes - zero carb/sugar. 2 scoops yields 10g of micronized L-Leucine/ L-Isoleucine/ L-Valine/ L-Alanyl-L-Glutamine. The worst thing about it is sucralose. cost was $19 or $29 couldnt remember.
A bunch of products contain soy which is what I was trying to stay away from really or other added sugars. They had a small batch of Size On (which is kind of similar to MAG-10) that had soy but the large container did not. Just found that weird.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
I used to use Optimum Nutrition’s BCAA powder. Very inexpensive, and you can mix it with anything, I used to mix with Crystal Light (no carbs, practically no cals). I still keep an occassional container around for my girlfriend, or when I can only fit one scoop of Met Drive into my daily numbers, I’ll throw in an extra 5g of BCAA powder with it. I mostly use MAG-10 during the day though, whereas my former approach was to sip on water spiked with the BCAA powder when dieting.
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Agreed. I like ON’s BCAA Powder. I mix it in with my shakes.
Anyone know of the effectiveness of taking Leucine on its own (or maybe with creatine)? Or will it only have benefits with other amino acids?
I got myself some leucine, and I take about 15g a day. 5g in the morning on an empty stomach (along with creatine and ZMA), and then 5g with both of my nightly meals. I’m wondering if the 5g in the morning is beneficial or not.
if you just take leucine by itself, it will deplete isoleucine and valine over time…that is the rationale behind creating a bcaa product in a specific ratio…
this may lead to problems over time…since you are just doing it once a day, it shouldn’t be an issue…
Leucine may be the one amino acid that triggers protein syntheis…but, isoleucine has some value as well…as it increases glucose uptake in muscle cells…
Have to agree with drty070 in that Optimum Nutrition has solid products at reasonable cost. Their gold standard whey and casein products have a good grip load of BCAA as part of the mix. They disolve wonderfully in a shaker bottle (whisk type) and taste descent as well. No sense in tasting breakfast twice ;). A ten POUND bag of whey will cost you $80.00 and has about 150 servings (24G of protein per serving).