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Originally Posted by NiteHawk
I can definitely say since I started supplementing with BCAA's, it has helped me quite a bit. Especially during my cutting phase this time compared to last year when I started before I had my surgery and had to stop the cut.
I lost muscle pretty early in my weeks of the diet but now since Ive supplemented with them, I havent lost any muscle, but my fat is leaving. Im not taking any other different supplements this time other than the BCAA's so Im pretty convinced thats what is saving me.
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Fewer carbohydrates = less stored glycogen in the muscles. The body WILL find a way to make it, and metabolizing muscle for the BCAAs is an easy way for it to do so. If the body is eating muscle, you aren't recovering or burning fat (and your metabolism is heading south).
They DEFINITELY have a muscle preserving effect.