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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

2432: The Truth About Essential Amino Acids with Angelo Keely

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.811.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The Truth About Essential Amino Acids with Angelo Keely

  • Coming back to his roots. Angelo’s background, personal story, and how he got involved with Kion. (1:37)

  • Breaking down the role and importance of essential amino acids (EAAs). (9:39)

  • The fundamental importance of building and maintaining lean muscle as we age. (13:05)

  • The nuance in daily protein intake. (16:53)

  • What leads to protein muscle synthesis? (20:37)

  • What is the most anabolic whole source of protein? (27:56)

  • Is a high protein diet less important in a bulk than it is in a cut? (28:30)

  • How much does the intensity of your training dictate this? (30:56)

  • Why supplement with essential amino acids over taking protein powder? (34:57)

  • Questioning the validity of these studies. (44:20)

  • The value of protein for someone who is injured or hurt. (51:19)

  • The best time to take EAAs. (58:24)

  • The difference between BCAAs and EAAs. (1:04:04)

  • Sharing in a fair context. (1:10:30)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

Mind-Up with your hosts.

0:09.0

Sal de Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. You just found the most downloaded fitness health and entertainment

0:16.0

podcast. This is Mind Pump. All right this episode is a unique one. Rarely do we get our minds changed when it comes to fitness topics. It happens

0:26.0

sometimes, but today it happened in a big way. So we had somebody come on, Angela Keeley,

0:32.1

talk to us about essential amino acids and you've probably

0:34.9

heard a say supplementing with them is probably a waste of time. He brought some studies and made a case that

0:41.2

changed our minds.

0:42.6

So today's episode, we're talking about the truth

0:44.3

about essential amino acids.

0:46.3

It's actually quite remarkable.

0:47.9

In fact, I'm using them myself right now.

0:50.9

Anyway, if you want to use essential amino acids, go to Kion, they're the best ones,

0:55.0

the best ratios, high and leucine, all the branch amino acids and all the essential amino

0:58.9

acids, and you can get key on

1:03.8

key on dot com that's g e t k i on

1:06.8

com forward slash mind pump that link will get you 20% off

1:11.6

now this episode is brought to you by NASM. This is the world's best

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premier national certification for personal trainers and right now if you go to

1:19.3

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1:24.9

certifications. Great certification for trainers who enter train

1:28.2

athletes or people to improve their athletic performance. Also this month we have a sale on some workout programs.

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