Betancourt Nutrition: Chewies BCAA Micros

"Micros": The newest nutritional supplement technology!

When Betancourt Nutrition first presented its CHEWIES™ Micros to retailers, they said, "This is the first nutritional supplement with a "wow factor" that we've seen in years."

Any serious bodybuilding athlete knows about the branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) leucine, isoleucine, and valine. But they may have never seen them "super-charged" by combining them in a 3:1 ratio with glutamine and compressed into a bioavailable, candy-flavored format so small you can fit two dozen of them in your hand. That's new CHEWIES™ BCAA Micros, created in Betancourt's own 140,000-square-foot cGMP manufacturing facility.

To build lots of muscle, your muscle cells must synthesize lots of protein. The BCAAs are building blocks in protein synthesis.* But they do more than this. They also regulate it. For instance, supplementation with BCAAs has been suggested to activate some of the same enzymes believed to be responsible for the muscle-building effects of resistance exercise (1).* Other studies suggest that BCAA supplementation may provide support against exercise-induced muscle damage and soreness (2) and reduce levels of perceived exertion (3) so that working out doesn't feel as tough.* To make new CHEWIES™ BCAA Micros even more powerful, we combined leucine, isoleucine and valine with glutamine. Supplementation with glutamine may spare the BCAAs from premature degradation.*

SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT

1. Apro W, Blomstrand E (2010). Influence of supplementation with branched-chain amino acids in combination with resistance exercise on p70 kinase phosphorylation in resting and exercising human skeletal muscle. Acta Physiol May 28.
2. Shimomura Y et al. (2010). Branched-chain amino acid supplementation before squat exercise and delayed-onset muscle soreness. Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab 20(3): 236.
3. Greer BK et al. (2010). BCAA supplementation lowers perceived exertion but does not affect performance in untrained males. J Strength Cond Res April 7.