What actually is BCAA?
(i) DRS wrote in aus.bicycle: Branch Chain Amino Acid. The human body needs 20 amino acids. It can make 12 of them. The other 8 it must get from other sources. This 8 includes the 3 BCAAs: leucine, isoleucine, and valine. They are hugely important to muscle, typically forming about one third of your muscle mass. Unless you’re a competitive bodybuilder who needs the 0.1% advantage you might get from free form BCAA supplementation then forget about it. Hydrolized whey protein or even good old whey protein isolate/concentrate is a hell of a lot cheaper and all you need do for the same effect is take your WPI/WPC about five to ten minutes before the time you would have taken your BCAAs. But that’s not at all the same thing as saying BCAAs are junk. If you could somehow cut out BCAAs from your diet you’d waste away. The article “Branched Chain Amino Acids” by David Tolson in full is highly detailed and may be more than most people want to know, but if you’re interested in this stuff then ch
