tay-nut said:That's fair. Ok, back to M|A|R|T|I|N's question. Do you know of anything that he may be talking about? I personally reccomend Cytopsort products to most of the cyclist/runners I sell to. I sponsor a road team and a triathlon team who all prefer cytomax, musclemilk, gulp-n-go and amino vital. Do you think those are all worthless?
I know most of those and I wouldn't put them in the category of those others that you linked.
These claims about gulp-n-go are untrue and/or misleading though.
"Alpha-L-Polylactate, besides buffering lactic acid production in your muscles, ...The succinates in Gulp N' Go are proven to enhance oxygen delivery to working muscles by 11% during intense exercise. "
Read about lactic acid and what it really is and how it actually behaves and you'll learn it doesn't need to be buffered. Their claim about succinates isn't true either. The carbs in the product are still useful. Years ago when cytomax first came out they said they had a study that showed that using cytomax would allow you to ride longer, faster, etc. It was discovered that their "study" compared cytomax to plain water. When cytomax was later compared with other sports drinks it was no better than other sports drinks.
The amino-vital products (protein drink) aren't bad, they're just not including enough aminos to matter. Some milk, or whey protein or egg proteins will have substantially more of virtually all of those aminos.
As an example, here's the breakdown of an inexpensive whey protein drink and you can see that there are 3 to 10 times as much of some important aminos compared to the amino vital product.
in milligrams...
L-Cysteine 336
L-Histidine 311
L-Isoleucine 1112
L-Leucine 1820
L-Lysine 1576
L-Methionine 370
L-Phenylalanine 554
L-Threonine 1361
L-Tryptophan 314
L-Tyrosine 375
L-Valine 1022
Non-essential Amino Acids
L-Alanine 913
L-Arginine 451
L-Aspartic Acid 2114
L-Glutamic Acid 3256
L-Glycine 280
L-Proline 342
L-Serine 1114
L-Glutamine 966
Muscle milk is fine but some of cyctomax's claims about it are untrue. Like enhancing your body's natural creatine loading??? There's no creatine in it (not listed on the label) and no food without creatine that I know of enhances your body's loading of creatine. Your body produces/stores x amount per day from certain foods (mainly meats) that contain creatine. Certain training stiumlii might enhance creatine storage but not muscle milk. Here's a gentle review that you might find helpful.
http://www.bodybuildingforyou.com/protein/muscle-milk-cytosport.htm
You may want to check out some of the other reviews on that page in the left hand column.
