Amino pump by culter

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itschelseabells
itschelseabells Posts: 13 Member
in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
I was wondering if this amino pump by culter is just for men or woman also? I bought it on sale and my sister mentioned is it for men or women so now I'm worried I wasted money.

And if it is for women any reviews you got?

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  • itschelseabells
    itschelseabells Posts: 13 Member
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  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,411 MFP Moderator
    edited April 2017
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    BCAA are for anyone. But what is more important is how overblown the benefits of amino acids are. So yes, they are largely a waste of money, especially if you eat adequate protein and even more if you are drinking whey which has all amino acids.

    ETA: In the future, if something is marketed towards "women", run. For the most part, they just make it pink and charge 2x the price. The except is women's multivatimins which include folic acid.
  • itschelseabells
    itschelseabells Posts: 13 Member
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    Okay. I didn't know much when I bought it to be honest. But I was just worried I'll grow a mustache or something haha!
  • liftorgohome
    liftorgohome Posts: 25,455 Member
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    Your voice may deepen but some guys like that!!
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    TannedTiger wrote: »
    you will grow a pair of testicles shortly.

    Some guys like that too :laugh:
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
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    TannedTiger wrote: »
    you will grow a pair of testicles shortly.

    And if you're lucky, they will look a lot like the bottom half of Cutler's quads.
  • itschelseabells
    itschelseabells Posts: 13 Member
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    Ew really people lmfao!
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
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    To save you money in future: BCAA's aren't ever required if you get sufficient protein in your diet.
  • gen39
    gen39 Posts: 36 Member
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    According to Lyle Mcdonald, who knows his stuff, BCAA is useless if you consume protein around your workouts. They're useful if you are working out in a fasted state - even then to an arguable degree.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,411 MFP Moderator
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    Quoting another member that discusses Alan Aragon's response towards BCAA's
    SideSteel wrote: »
    Alan Aragon:

    Hey everyone, a frequently recurring topic is BCAA supplementation. A lot of folks are simply unaware of the actual data, so they needlessly waste their hard-earned cash on BCAA supps. This might not be music to the ears of folks locked in a routine of taking their favorite supp, but my hope is that it gives some of you food for thought, and ultimately helps you zap an unnecessary (and potentially detrimental) item from your supplement shopping list.

    The high-quality proteins in our diets are comprised of appx 18-26% BCAA as it is. Supplementing with extra BCAA on top of that can range from adding extra unnecessary calories (and metabolic burden), to actually inhibiting optimal use of ingested amino acids [1].

    Let me also add that whey protein has a stronger anabolic/anticatabolic effect than its equivalent in supplemental EAA or BCAA [2]. It's no surprise that supplemental BCAA has an equivocal track record in the research [3,4]. For those concerned about "going catabolic" doing fasted cardio without AA supplementation, my colleagues and I found no difference in body comp effects between fed vs fasted cardio when total protein is sufficient (both groups retained their LBM) [5]. As for the ability of BCAA to inhibit muscle soreness, note that this is always compared to a non-protein placebo.

    It's LOL to supp with BCAA to begin with (instead of an intact, high-quality protein such as whey, which provides the rest of the EAAs as well as other co-factors for anabolism -- but it's all moot if you're getting enough total daily protein anyway). Here’s a salient quote from a recent review [6]:

    "Thus, as we speculated, consumption of crystalline BCAA resulted in competitive antagonism for uptake from the gut and into the muscle and was actually not as effective as leucine alone in stimulating MPS. Despite the popularity of BCAA supplements we find shockingly little evidence for their efficacy in promoting MPS or lean mass gains and would advise the use of intact proteins as opposed to a purified combination of BCAA that appear to antagonize each other in terms of transport both into circulation and likely in to the muscle.”

    The only people who are not wasting time & money on supplemental BCAA are those who must maintain a low-protein diet, or a diet with restricted amounts of high-quality protein. With that all said, if your total daily protein is optimized, and you don't mind consuming the functional equivalent of really expensive flavored water, then be my guest. :)

    1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27175106
    2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22451437
    3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20110810
    4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15930475
    5) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25429252/
    6) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26388782/

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