Re: Gakic

In article <7970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
DZ <14814@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet <Omelet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > gotten a LOT of attention and advertising lately.
>
> And they quote two Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. articles in support. So
> I've just read them.
>
> In the stomach, "Gakic" breaks into glycine, arginine, and ketoleucine
> (produced in the body by leucine transamination). Nothing special
> about these. No wonder both papers that report the improved
> performance, required 12h fasting prior to the experiments comparing
> "Gakic" to placebo. It seems a lot cheaper to take some freaking whey,
> or maybe eat closer than 12 hours before the workout :-)

Good point.

Odd, the more a product is "hyped", the more suspicious I am of it.

Maybe I'm just a cynic. ;-)
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Om.

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