Why Do BodyBuilders Take Amino Acid Supplements?
Amino acid supplements are some of the most popular bodybuilding supplements on the market today. Amino acids have lots of nitrogen, and thus they are thought to be able to help your body retain nitrogen. This retention is thought to boost protein synthesis, which results in muscle growth. Some advertisements for amino acid supplements claim that amino acid supplements are able to boost strength and build muscle as natural anabolics. Companies market amino acid supplements as HGH boosters (Human Growth Hormone Boosters) and as protein replacement supplements, that replace protein in the muscles. There have been some studies that have shown that injecting amino acids can boost human growth hormone secretion. This may be the case, but more growth hormone may not result in more muscle mass (this is hotly debated). Plus, amino acids are generally taken orally not through injection. There are studies that show that taking amino acids orally is not very effective to increase growth hormone.
