Make that a BCAA water on the rocks

[moshquerade]

If this becomes commercialized, would you drink up?

Cocktail of amino acids does wonders for mice

Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Want to live longer? One of the most surefire strategies is caloric restriction. Going on what amounts to a permanent diet has been shown to stave off age-related diseases and death in worms, flies, rodents and monkeys.

But caloric restriction isn't for everyone. Scientists have been looking for ways to get the same benefits with less sacrifice. Some Italian researchers are offering one potential alternative: water fortified with a cocktail of branched-chain amino acids, or BCAAs for short.

Such cocktails are sometimes offered as supplements to people with age-related diseases, such as type-2 diabetes, heart disease and loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength. The Italians investigated the value of a more all-purpose drink made from an amino-acid supplement that a Milan company sells to athletes. Among the key ingredients are leucine, isoleucine, valine, lysine and threonine.

The mice began drinking the BCAA water instead of regular water when they were 9 months old and kept drinking it for the rest of their lives. Those lives turned out to be significantly longer than for mice that drank normal water: a median of 869 days versus 774 days. The extra time amounted to a 12 percent increase in life span.

The amino acids apparently boosted the mitochondria — often dubbed the power plants of cells — in the rodents' skeletal and cardiac muscles. Their treadmill endurance improved, as did their motor coordination.

In their paper, published last week in Cell Metabolism, the researchers, led by Enzo Nisoli of Milan University's School of Medicine, noted the same amino-acid cocktail was "found to promote several healthy effects in humans."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2013120496_amino10.html

 

[rivan]

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Wyndru]

If it goes commercial, it will probably get trendy and college kids will start mixing it with vodka at bars.

 

[polarmystery]

There are BCAA's in almost every protein powder on the market. I can't tell how the last time I saw some without them. That said, I eat them all the time. Putting it in water would be cool.

Silver fish hand catch.

 

[destrekor]

While it might be neat to get a good serving of BCAAs in water, the amino acid profiles of most protein powder packages is chock full of what they specifically stated, alongside a ton of other good amino acids.

Making an effort to get a complete package of all the important amino acids is not something most people do, but the people that do will definitely tell you of better health in most instances.

And the more you use your body, the more something like this can be helpful to you.

 

[MJinZ]

If this becomes commercialized, would you drink up?


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2013120496_amino10.html

I already take BCAAs - both my Multivatimin has it and I have a supplement for hard workout days.

 

[bignateyk]

Hmm.. my protein powder and multivitamin/mineral powder both have BCAA's in them.

 

[Lamont Burns]

hmmmm, protein has bcaas? crazy!

 

[IceBergSLiM]

BCAA mainstream in weightlifting and athletic training circles.

 

[CRXican]

sure why not