So, protein is basically amino-acids right? So when we try to eat a lot of protein we are really trying to eat lots of amino acids right? And then BCAAs are like the most important amino acids?
Is there anything more to protein than just that it is a source of amino acids? I mean do we need protein for things that it offers other than amino acids? Not that anyone would ever do it, but just for the purpose of clarifying the role of each for me – what if someone was to eat only a buttload of BCAAs instead of protein powder? What would they be missing?
I’m just trying to clarify the differences between the two
BCAA’s are not to be confused with essential amino acids (EAA). Essential amino acids are the amino acids that we cannot synthesize in our bodies, and we have to obtain them from the diet, like vitamins.
In total, there are 20 amino acids that our body encodes for, 8 of those are essential, meaning the ohter 12 amino acids we can synthesize from other things entirely protein in nature.
3 of those essential amino acids are the branched chain amino acids.
no, protein as it is, is just broken down to it’s amino acids and absorbed. there is nothing else to proteins except in the offcase if you are talking about posttranslational modification and glycosylation, thats an anal exception, where sugar groups, for example, are added to the protein, but that just gets broken down like a simple carbohydrate.
Proteins synthesized within the body do more than just form muscle or are the part of something structural in nature. They mostly form enzymes, which are little globular balls of protein that float around and carry out specific chemical reactions, everything in our body that occurs, occurs pretty much because an enzyme is present to carry out that chemical reaction or function. these enzymes and proteins are synthesized from putting amino acids together in a particular sequence which is very specific, this is why we need amino acids and many of them, of different kinds.
[quote]superscience wrote:
Would eating protein not increase your metabolism more than just pure aminos also. [/quote]
eating whole foods of protein, steak for example, does have a greater thermic effect of food, meaning your body expends energy in trying to digest it, in essence “increasing” metabolic rate slightly, vs supplementing a protein powder. i put increasing in quotations because you must remember when building muscle energy is very important and sometimes it’s not the most ideal thing in the world to be expending energy on digestion, but this effect is minor on gains, i would assume.
On the other hand , i’d like to know if anyone knows why liquid amino acids are not sought after P w/o vs hydrolyzed whey products. I was once told that “the body does not deal with free form amino acids in the same way it does with polypeptides” could anyone enlighten me on how the body deals with free amino acids?
[quote]T Ham wrote:
One of Dave Barr’s articles on post workout nutrition goes into why whey hydrosylates are better than pure amino acids for the post workout period.