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8 May, 8 tweets, 2 min read

Essential Amino Acids (EAA’s) are one of the best supplements you can add to your toolbox.

The EAA’s are the basic building block of muscle, when you take them you trigger your body to go into an anabolic state and this triggers Muscle Protein Synthesis.

When you trigger MPS, your body actively goes into a state of repair.

Because of this it’s very wise to consume them during training (intra workout) or before. Another great time is upon waking because this is one your bodies most stressful times during the day.

By consuming EAA’s immediately upon wake up, you set your body up to be in a state ready for optimal growth or if dieting the optimal environment to hold onto muscle.

Lots of positive with virtually zero downside.

However, many companies shill BCAA’s or are very expensive.

BCAA’s lack the other EAA’s making them an incomplete protein. This basically does nothing for your body when you take them. It’s like having all the hammers in the world with no nails.

Simply shilling money to drink flavored water.

EAA’s are typically very expensive at $30-50 for 30 “servings” (their servings are typically 5-7g which is too low IMO, I drink 10g upon wake up and 25g during training)

The solution is buying unflavored aminos in bulk and flavoring them yourselves.

Best place in the world is truenutrition.com/p-1154-eaas-es…

$27.29 with 50 servings, each serving being 10g. The best bang for your buck.

Then go to Walmart and for $1-2 you can buy calorie free liquid flavoring and it’s absolutely delicious.

(No affiliate link, just a great product)

As you can see average serving is now about $.50 compared to the average 10g serving of bodybuilding companies being $2-3.50.

I hope you all found this helpful and useful. I don’t use affiliate links here because I won’t compromise the integrity of the information.

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