Core POST: A Post-Workout Recovery Matrix Enhanced with Velositol

Core Nutritionals continues to level up their supplement line!

Last time Core Nutritionals was featured on PricePlow, we covered Core Zone, an advanced nootropic that helps you develop the crush-it mentality. As Core Nutritionals set out to rebrand their entire line, the team also has been busy revamping old supplements and launching new ones. This year, Core Zone was one of the most highly anticipated new supplements and so far, the feedback has been incredible, for both formula effectiveness and flavors!

Now, Core is switching gears with the arrival of Core POST, an upgraded version of Core PWO. In case you’re unfamiliar with Core’s protein powder menu, they have three options to choose from, depending on your goals: Core PRO, Core ISO, and Core POST.

Core PRO is a sustained-release protein that’s great to cook with and use as a meal replacement, post-workout, or pre-workout. You can even take it at night. Core ISO is a 100% whey protein isolate. It’s fast digesting and best used peri-workout. Lastly, the new and improved Core POST was formulated for those looking to take their recovery to the next level. It features fast-acting protein and carbohydrates, along with several trademarked ingredients that promote muscle growth, recovery, and performance.

Core POST: New Look, Formula, and Flavors—with Even More Gains

Core Post comes in three delicious flavors!

Core POST features:

• Cold-processed, microfiltered whey protein isolate delivering 24 g of protein
• 36 g of carbohydrates from a combination of dextrose and Cluster Dextrin
• 5 g of free-form L-leucine
• 2 g of Velositol
• 480 mg of VitaCherry Sport and
• 10mg of BioPerine

This combination of ingredients makes Core POST the ultimate post-workout recovery matrix.

Not only did Core POST get a revamped formula and look, it also launched in three never-before-seen flavors: hot cocoa, peanut butter brittle, and fruity cereal. With this flavor lineup, Core POST helps you recover and also crush your cravings for something sweet!

Velositol: One of Core POST’s Key Ingredients

Although VeIositol was included in the original rendition of Core POST, PricePlow is glad to see that Core decided to keep it for the new formula because it’s one of the few protein powders on the market with the clinically studied dose. Velositol was created by the masterminds behind Nutrition21, an ingredient supplier and developer that’s truly changing the sports nutrition industry for the better.

Nutrition 21’s Velositol is finally making its way out there – and the research is too!

Velositol has been clinically shown to double the power of whey protein. What does that mean for you? Enhanced muscle protein synthesis, recovery, repair, growth, and performance. There’s even some recent evidence to suggest that Velositol enhances whole body protein metabolism, leading to improved exercise performance. Needless to say, if you have a few carbs to spare and are looking to optimize your recovery and get stronger and bigger, then it doesn’t get much better than Core POST!

Keep reading to learn more about Core POST and the newest research behind Velositol! But before you do, sign up for Core Nutritionals news and deal alerts below to save money and receive notifications when new supplements and flavors go live.

Core POST Macronutrients

Before diving into the ingredients, let’s see what Core POST’s nutrition fact panel looks like. Keep in mind that the serving size, calories, and macronutrients may vary depending on the flavor.

Supercharge your recovery with Core Post!

Here’s what one serving (two scoops/~75 grams) of Core POST hot cocoa provides:

• Calories: 245

• Protein: 24g

• Carbohydrates: 36g

  • Sugar: 21g

  • Fiber: 1g

• Fat: 0.5g

For best results, Core recommends consuming two scoops of Core POST with 8 to16 fluid ounces of cold water immediately post-training.

Seeing 21 grams of sugar may be alarming for some people, but if you’re going to consume sugar at all, post-workout is the best time of day to do it. After training, your muscles’ glycogen stores are depleted and your body’s insulin sensitivity is at its all-time highest. Therefore, consuming a fast-digesting carbohydrate, such as dextrose, alongside whey protein isolate, is one of the best ways to restore muscle glycogen and spike muscle protein synthesis.

Although PricePlow typically recommends limiting overall sugar content to stabilize blood glucose levels, this is the one exception! In summary, if you’re training hard, don’t be afraid of carbohydrates. They can help you recover, refuel, and boost your performance.

Core POST Ingredient Analysis

Core POST has one of the most unique ingredient profiles in the protein powder category, which is why we’re excited to cover it on PricePlow.

• Velositol (Amylopectin Chromium Complex) – 2g

  

  Nutrition21 is a leader in the industry and takes huge steps towards making supplements safer, more effective, and transparent!

  Velositol is a patented, GRAS-affirmed (generally recognized as safe) complex of amylopectin and chromium Two grams is the clinically studied dose.^[1] Velositol is typically added to protein powders and protein bars because of its unique ability to significantly boost muscle protein synthesis.

  Velositol, “protein’s perfect partner”, was introduced to the supplement industry in 2018 by Nutrition21, a well-respected ingredient supplier that has created some of the most popular ingredients in sports nutrition, including Nitrosigine, nooLVL, Chromax, and Lepidamax. Velositol may be a relatively new ingredient, but there’s already extensive research showing its efficacy as a muscle builder.

  Velositol doubles the power of protein

  PricePlow was first intrigued by Velositol when a double-blind, crossover design, human clinical trial revealed that 2 grams of Velositol, along with a sub-optimal protein dose (6 grams of protein from whey protein), increased skeletal muscle protein synthesis (MPS), as measured by the fractional rate of MPS, to a greater extent than 6 grams of whey protein alone after a single bout of resistance training.

  

  Clinical research shows Velositol effectively doubles the power of “suboptimal doses of protein” when the two are consumed together.^[2]

  More specifically, Velositol doubled the MPS response (48% vs 24%) compared to whey protein alone.^[2] It’s important to note that a suboptimal protein dose means that the amount of protein consumed isn’t sufficient enough for maximizing the MPS response.For most individuals, consuming anywhere from 20 grams to 40 grams of protein is required to fully activate MPS. Furthermore, this study also found that the participants who supplemented with Velositol had higher levels of cytokines, the proteins involved in cell signaling.^[2]

  Velositol increases exercise performance

  Based on the findings from the study we just highlighted, the same leading researcher set out to determine how 2 grams of Velositol, with 15g of whey protein, would affect muscle strength, fat-free mass, whole-body protein balance, and exercise performance during eight weeks of resistance training. They recruited 35 recreationally-active men and divided them into three groups: active group (2g of Velositol, 15g whey protein, V15W), comparator group (15g whey protein,15W), and a high-dose comparator group (30g whey protein, 30W).^[3]

  

  Made by Nutrition 21, the experts in Chromium and Insulin management, Velositol can boost Muscle Protein Synthesis by using chromium and a ‘tickle’ of insulin-spike from amylopectin!

  Participants consumed their assigned supplement on training days immediately post-workout, and at the same time on non-training days. At zero, four, and eight weeks, participants’ body composition, whole-body protein balance, and lower/upper body strength was assessed.^[3]

  All participants gained strength, muscle size, and improved their fat-free mass, however the V15W group saw a significantly greater increase in repetitions to failure on the squat, vertical jump power, relative squat strength, and vertical jump height than the other two groups. Furthermore, the same group also had greater levels of net-protein balance at zero and four weeks.^[3]

  The researchers concluded that due to early adaptations in whole-body protein balance, 2 grams of Velositol, along with 15 grams of whey protein, are capable of boosting squat strength, repetitions to failure, vertical power, and vertical jump height . Not only does Core POST deliver 2 grams of Velositol, it’s also packed with nine more grams of protein than used in this study. So expect to get all the benefits that whey protein and Velositol have to offer.

  If you want to learn more about Velositol, check out this article: Velositol: Enhancing Muscle Protein Synthesis with Science and Velositol Increases Exercise Performance: New University Study Previewed.

• Fermented Vegan Free-Form L-Leucine – 5g

  In order to maximally stimulate muscle protein synthesis, Core POST includes 5 grams of fermented vegan free-form L-leucine.

  

  The sweet tastes of gains!

  Not only is leucine classified as an essential amino acid, meaning the body cannot produce it and therefore it must be obtained from diet or supplementation, it’s also one of the three branched-chain amino acids. Leucine is required for optimal muscle growth and repair.

  Although several amino acids play a role in activating muscle protein synthesis, leucine is considered the primary stimulator.^[4,5] Leucine turns on MPS by interacting with the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and S6K pathway.^[4,5]

  Since Core Post uses whey protein isolate, which is already rich in leucine, you’re getting an additional 5 grams on top of that. Thus, MPS is guaranteed to be maxed out with just one serving of Core POST

• VitaCherry Sport (Montmorency Tart Cherry) – 480mg

  To further promote recovery, Core POST includes 480 milligrams of VitaCherry Sport, a trademarked ingredient from FutureCeuticals.

  

  Boost your recovery with the power of VitaCherry Sport from FutureCeuticals!

  VitaCherry Sport was formulated to aid recovery and reduce post-exercise muscle soreness and strength loss. VitaCherry Sport is made using montmorency tart cherries, which are rich in phytonutrients and have nearly five times the amount of anthocyanins than other tart cherry powders.^[6]

  Several human clinical trials have found that when participants supplement with 480 milligrams of montmorency tart cherry powder, they experience less soreness and improved recovery in both endurance and resistance training events.^[7,8]

  One study in particular, from the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, found that montmorency tart cherry powder works by decreasing muscle breakdown, immune and inflammatory stress, and cortisol levels. The study authors also believe it maintains better redox balance.^[8]

• BioPerine (Black Pepper Extract) (Piper Nigrum) (Fruit) – 10mg

  Core POST uses 10 milligrams of BioPerine, a black pepper extract from Sabinsa Corp. It helps promote the absorption of the other ingredients. BioPerine is the only trademarked form of black pepper extract in the dietary supplement industry and it’s standardized to contain at least 95% of piperine, its primary bioactive constituent.

  

  Bioperine is the trusted, trademarked form of black pepper extract that promises 95% or greater piperine, the part of black pepper with all the activity!

  By inhibiting several enzymes, such as P-glycoprotein and CYP3A4, piperine prevents the metabolism of several nutrients.^[9,10] Other potential mechanisms of action include lowering the rate of glucuronidation and enhancing the body’s thermogenesis.^[10]

  Several studies have shown that BioPerine enhances the absorption of numerous nutrient groups, such as fat-soluble vitamins, water-soluble vitamins, curucumin, CoQ10, iron, resveratrol, and selenium, but more research is needed to fully understand piperine’s additional effects.^[9,11]

• Protein Source – Cold-Processed Microfiltered Non-GMO Whey Protein Isolate

  The 24 grams of protein in each serving of Core POST comes from cold-processed microfiltered non-GMO whey protein isolate. While the majority of other protein powders simply list whey protein isolate on the ingredient list, Core goes the extra step to describe how their whey protein is made. Cold-processing and microfiltration ensures that the protein remains intact and isn’t denatured during the manufacturing process.

  

  Looking for a high quality whey isolate without the carbs, try Core Iso!

  As we alluded to earlier, whey protein is incredibly rich in both branched-chain amino acids and essential amino acids. Core decided to use whey protein isolate since it’s at least 90% protein by weight and contains virtually no carbohydrates, lactose, or fat. Whey protein isolate is phenomenal for pre- or post-workout because it digests and absorbs rapidly.

  A double-blind crossover study published in the journal Nutrients found that after an intense bout of resistance training, 25 grams of whey protein enhances whole body anabolism, protein metabolism, exercise performance, and recovery .^[12] (If you’re looking for a high quality whey protein isolate without the extra benefits that Core POST offers, we recommend checking out Core ISO.)

• Carbohydrate Sources – Dextrose and Cluster Dextrin (Highly Branched Cyclic Dextrin)

  Along with 24 grams of protein, Core POST also provides 36 grams of carbohydrates coming from a combination of dextrose and highly-branched cyclic dextrin (as Cluster Dextrin). The goal of Core Post is to quickly replenish muscle glycogen, without causing huge spikes in insulin levels or stomach discomfort, hence the combination of dextrose with Cluster Dextrin is a great idea.

  

  Core Vegan is a great tasting plant-based protein with added amino acids for optimal gains!

  Insulin is a hormone released from the pancreas in response to increased blood sugar levels. Thus, insulin signals your cells to allow glucose to enter and use it to lower blood glucose levels back to homeostasis. Sharp increases and decreases in insulin can cause rapid drops in energy, fatigue, and, over long periods of time, lead to serious medical conditions.

  Dextrose is a simple sugar derived from corn and is chemically identical to glucose. Dextrose is rapidly digested and absorbed, which leads to a significant increase in insulin. Cluster Dextrin, on the other hand, is a trademarked form of highly-branched cyclic dextrin (HBCD) from Glico Nutrition Co. It’s made from amylopectin (cornstarch) via the cyclization of a branching enzyme.^[13]

  Unlike glucose, Cluster Dextrin has a low osmolality and high molecular weight that allows for quick digestion and absorption into the bloodstream without causing stomach distress or massive spikes in insulin. Two human clinical trials have shown that Cluster Dextrin results in less gastrointestinal distress and increased recovery, work capacity, and performance.^[14,15]

• Inactive Ingredients

  Here are some other ingredients included in Core POST that improve taste, texture, and mixability:

  • Natural & Artificial Flavors

  • Silicon (anti-foam)

  • Sucralose

  • Sunflower Lecithin

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Core POST Flavors

Core POST comes in three incredible flavors that are sure to appeal to most flavor preferences: hot cocoa, fruity cereal, and peanut butter brittle. Be on the lookout for more Core POST flavors coming in the near future!

Here’s an updated list of all available Core POST flavors:

Core POST Takes the Guesswork Out of Post-Workout Nutrition

When it comes to being the best athlete you can be, there are a few essential elements to prioritize, including training, sleep, stress, recovery, hydration, nutrition, and supplementation.

Crush your sweet tooth with Core Post peanut butter brittle!

Core Nutritionals created Core POST to take the guesswork out of post-workout nutrition by providing you with all of the nutrients you need to recover, repair, and grow. Core POST is a phenomenal supplement, but it’s just a snapshot of what Core has to offer. This year alone, the company added several new products to their lineup and revamped nearly every existing supplement they have to make them work better, taste better, and look more aesthetically pleasing.

It takes a lot of time, money, and resources to do a complete rebrand for a company this big, but Core isn’t willing to settle. They’ll do what it takes to give you the best supplements on the market. The competition in the supplement industry may be tough, but Core has proven why their brand has stood the test of time. PricePlow is excited to see what Core has in store for the future and we’re confident that our readers are as well.

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