Re: Pro-Burst

["Susan Evans Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

>Mike Glade did the original research on this product--with race horses.
Found
>benefits feeding it 1/2 hour before and 1/2 hour after a race. The problem
>with BCAAs, according to Glade (personal discussion) is that elevated
levels
>don't last very long--the the benefit windo is short.


Tom, I haven't read that study---what was the benefit demonstrated?

Doesn't surprise me about the short window, though---we pretty much
concluded the same thing about DMG, the amino acid is just too small not to
be metabolized within a short time.  Makes sense the same thing would be
true of BCAAs.

Susan G



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