Everything You Need To Know About Amino Acids, Animal Vs. Plant Protein, How Much Protein You Need & Much, Much More With Kion's Angelo Keely.
Ben Greenfield Life
Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
I have been supplementing with amino acids a lot lately.
And so have many of you, as the Aminos supplement is easily the best-selling product over at Kion, my supplements company that I and Angelo Keely began in 2017. In fact, Angelo and I talked about amino acids, along with our then new protein powder on the podcast back in November of 2021. And since I've been using Kion Aminos to such great effect lately, I wanted to share what we talked about last year, because I know so many people have begun listening to the show since then.
So enjoy!
Angelo Keely is the co-founder and CEO of Kion, an active lifestyle, supplement, and functional food company dedicated to helping people fully experience a joyful, active life by providing pure, energy-enhancing solutions. Angelo has a truly diverse and unique background having put himself through college as a professional musician—beatboxing, rapping, and drumming.
During our discussion, you'll discover:
-How Angelo Keely has become a world-renowned expert on protein...
-How Angelo Keely and his health transformation caused a hyper-focus on protein and amino acids...
-Overview of the different types of amino acids...
-Creatine as an amino acid...
-The appropriate amount of protein and aminos to intake...
-The ranking of the quality of animal-based protein sources...
-The good and bad when it comes to protein powders...
-The long history of whey protein...
-How to get a protein powder that doesn't taste like ash...
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | High level amino acids are the building blocks of all proteins in the human body. |
| 0:08.4 | When you think about proteins in the human body, what most people don't realize is that |
| 0:12.0 | that actually makes up 20% of our whole body. |
| 0:14.6 | Having a good amino acid pool on hand from muscle proteins, if this is. |
| 0:18.5 | Exactly. Just to support the repair of all these tissues. |
| 0:20.9 | But if you only take one amino acid, especially the branch chain in amino acids, |
| 0:25.4 | in isolation without the other six, |
| 0:28.1 | yeah, you can get kind of a boost in a workout, but it actually... |
| 0:35.8 | Faith, family, fitness, health, performance, nutrition, longevity, |
| 0:43.2 | ancestral living, biohacking, and a whole lot more. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:48.2 | Oh my goodness, I made the most amazing carrot cake last night. |
| 1:00.4 | It was like pumpkin mash and pastured eggs. |
| 1:04.0 | I used colostrum. I used all-spice, nutmeg, cinnamon. |
| 1:09.2 | I used alulose as a sweetener and then for the frosting, colostrum, and coconut cream, |
| 1:13.7 | and vanilla, and stevia as a sweetener so good. One of my secret ingredients was a giant scoop |
| 1:19.7 | of the the Keon protein powder. |
| 1:24.3 | I'm a huge fan of all the Keon products, but when it comes to the protein powder and the |
| 1:28.5 | amino is particularly, they have been such a staple in my routine lately that I decided I wanted |
| 1:35.2 | to revisit them in a podcast today. Actually, my friend, Angelo, the CEO of Keon, who I interview |
| 1:41.4 | in today's show, he actually was sharing with me on a phone call the other day. Hopefully, |
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