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MuscleTech Peptide 185: Dileucine for More Muscle Protein Synthesis
Branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) supplements have been around for over two decades now. If you’ve ever seriously lifted weights, you’ve almost certainly taken BCAAs at some point.
While BCAAs are technically dietary proteins, they have a disproportionately large impact on the body’s anabolic response compared to other proteins. That’s because they activate key informational switches[…]
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Pure Beta-Lactoglobulin: Arla Foods Ingredients Lacprodan® BLG-100
Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen a kind of protein powder arms race. Supplement brands have made large investments to improve the effectiveness of their proteins, usually with high-tech additives, structural protein modifications, or bolstered amino acid compositions.
Clear Protein Isolates – The Next Big Thing in Protein ShakesIn parallel, the […]
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Fresh Supps Amino: Essential Amino Acids (EAAs) That Keep it Fresh
Greg Helton is the man. As far as supplement industry bonafides go, he covers all the bases. He was the chief marketing officer at Musclesport for seven years, and VP of Ryse for a year. We’ve even had him on Episode #40 of The PricePlow Podcast, when he was the president of Nutra Innovations.[…]
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Animal Recovery & Restore Performance Chews: Great-Tasting Glutamine and More
This past summer, we wrote an article about using Animal Creatine Chews to kick-start glycogen reload. We concluded that article saying, “So it sounds like we’ll need some more Chews from Animal.”
Well our requests have been answered — not only did we get Animal Energy Chews (each individual one with 25 milligrams of […]
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Arla Foods Ingredients: Innovating Whey Protein | Episode #108
https://blog.priceplow.com/podcast/arla-foods-ingredients-whey-protein-108
Here on PricePlow, we’re happy to eat some crow. We recently mentioned that there hasn’t been much innovation in protein itself, and that most innovation has been coming in the add-on ingredients and protein enhancement technologies.
It turns out that we were wrong — there’s plenty of protein innovation coming, especially in the field […]
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Nutrex EAA+ Hydration Gets Bold 2023 Branding
The Nutrex Rebirth continues under the stewardship of Chris Waldrum. As Chris told us in Episode #091 of the PricePlow Podcast, the sports series of supplements would be first to get updated rebranding, while the flagship Lipo-6 fat burning series is to be left alone for the time being.
Since then, we’ve seen a […]
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Primeval Labs EAA Max Energy: Amino Acids with a Kick
BCAAs had a long run as king of intra-workout supplements. While there is some good research backing the effectiveness of BCAAs, EAAs have a far more comprehensive stack of evidence behind them.
The problem was taste. It is hard to formulate an EAA blend that tastes good. One company that has really changed that is […]
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Primeval Labs EAA Max: The OG EAA Supplement Gets a Slick New Look in 2023
The OG EAA supplement has been updated with a fresh look in 2023!
For years, BCAA supplements dominated the “intra workout” category in the sports nutrition space. It took a long time, but eventually, full-spectrum essential amino acid (EAA) supplements took over the industry. Backed by far better research, most of us knew that more […]
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Shawn Baier: HMB – Everything You Need to Know | Episode #093
https://blog.priceplow.com/podcast/shawn-baier-hmb-093
We’ve lately seen a lot of buzz about β-hydroxy β-methylbutyrate, otherwise known as HMB. After diving deep into the ingredient — which has been with us since the 1980s but wasn’t fully understood or marketed correctly in those early decades — we’re glad to see it making a comeback with supplement formulators […]
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Clear Muscle.. Clarified. MuscleTech’s HMB Free Acid Muscle Supplement
MuscleTech has been releasing a lot of products with unusual ingredients lately. Last year, in MuscleTech EuphoriQ: The Smart Pre-Workout with enfinity Paraxanthine, we covered their pioneering use of paraxanthine, a caffeine metabolite that’s a kind of new-and-improved energy source as an alternative to caffeine.
As scientists continue to identify metabolites that drive […]
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