Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAA) Do NOT Make Muscle

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 27 December 2019

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In this podcast, Dr. Berg talks about Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAA). Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. Most of the time people would take BCAA to build muscle, but it is just a total myth. There are no human studies that show taking BCAA will increase muscle synthesis and it won’t also prevent muscle loss.

3 Types of Branched Chain Amino Acids

1. Leucine

2. Isoleucine

3. Valine

There are two intravenous studies that showed it decrease in protein synthesis. BCAA turns into fuel that may give you a little bit of energy while you are working out. The body needs all 9 essential amino acids for recovery, repair, and regrowth of proteins. 70% of muscle protein breakdown is recycled.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Hey guys, today we're going to talk about branch chain amino acids.
0:48.0	A lot of times people take them to think that they're going to build muscle and that is a total myth.
0:55.0	The first thing I want to talk about is what is an amino acid?
0:58.0	Amin acid is the building block to proteins.
1:01.0	Okay, so look at it like alphabet. You have all these letters that make words that form a language in the body.
1:07.0	With amino acids, you have all these different combinations from simple to very complex protein structures made
1:17.2	from the amino acids.
1:18.2	I mean from muscle to skin to enzymes to hormones to to
1:23.0	to hormones to bone
1:26.0	almost the entire body is made out of amino acids.
1:29.0	So there are actually three branch chain amino acids.
1:32.0	Lucien, isolusin, and veiling. actually three branch chain amino acids.
1:32.8	Lucein, isylucine, and veiling.
1:35.7	Now, normally we have nine essential amino acids.
1:39.0	That means this.
1:40.5	They're essential because your body can't make them. You must get them from the diet.
1:45.0	Okay, so when we're talking about three, we're missing six. We need nine to build muscle.
1:52.0	Now, there are actually no human studies
1:54.6	that show that taking a branch amino acids,
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