Posts Tagged ‘amino acids’

BCAA benefits

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Amino acids are represented by branched or BCAA leucine, isoleucine & valine & make up 35% of the amino acids present in the muscle.
Unlike most other amino acids, BCAA bypasses hepatic metabolism & are directly involved in muscular work, which serve as nitrogen donors for the synthesis of other important amino acids such as glutamine & alanine. In doing so exert an action on anti-catabolic muscle.

BCAA benefits:

  1. Greater stimulation of protein synthesis
  2. Increased muscle strength by the opposition of the way in of free tryptophan in the brain. The latter is an essential amino acid that in the last stages of physical activity, when BCAA are beginning to be used as an energy substrate, enters the brain, where it is converted in to serotonin, a brain neurotransmitter that gives the sensation of fatigue (this is a nice reason to take before a workout BCAA)
  3. Limiting the formation of ammonia (a substance poisonous to the tissues that form in the coursework of the exercise, which also prevents protein synthesis).
  4. More energy in the coursework of workouts. This is due to the fact that the oxidation of BCAA in the coursework of their form alanine, which is the most important precursor of gluconeogenesis (formation of new glucose & therefore energy) in the liver, maintaining stable blood sugar levels. Not to mention that the synthesis of glutamine is dependent on the BCAA.
  5. Like steroids, the BCAAs work best when the muscle is in a catabolic state, such as through a low-calorie diet, so the branching can help prevent muscle loss in the coursework of strict diets
  6. greater recovery
  7. Stronger immune system

Essential amino acids

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. To move a molecule of water (condensation), the amino group of an amino acid can bind to the carboxyl group of another.
The bond between amino acids is called a peptide bond. The group of one or more amino acids at both ends of the chain leaves free groups, that can bind to other amino acids. A chain of more amino acids linked by peptide bonds takes the generic name of polypeptide, or more polypeptides constitute a protein.
Amino acids that appear in proteins of all living organisms  are under genetic control. The information on the type and position of an amino acid in a protein is encoded in the DNA. Within the ribosome (ribosomal RNA from the ribosome ècomposto (r-RNA) and protein material, and its function is to synthesize, beginning a chain of messenger RNA (m RNA), proteins), amino acids are aligned according to the genetic code: an amino acid for every molecule of messenger RNA. When the chain is complete (all the amino acids), the ribosome “factory” a protein. Some amino acids are called essential because they must be introduced in to our body already preformed. The other amino acids, in the event that they are present in foods, the body can be manufactured from other nutrients and are called “non-essential”. By the presence of essential amino acids depends on the so-called “biological value” of proteins, namely the likelihood that positive food proteins are used properly by the body. For the athlete fitness and bodybuilding, for the anabolism of protein in the presence of adequate stimulation: muscle hypertrophy by a nice conditioning workout at the gym.