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Thanks Sactown - I think we can have some fun and help a few people out here at the same time. Sorry to have thrown you for a loop there with the first post. I was answering it in another thread and just jumped right into it. A beginning resource - lemme ask what are you looking to achieve specifically? Whatever we can do to help lemme know. Michael

I was asked the following question on a different thread and thought it would make sense to have a specific thread for my opinions. Ask away, and I will do my best to answer. BCAA's are very important in order to provide enough of the muscle building Leucine, Iso-leucine and Valine the body needs to repair muscle tissue, as well as maintain lean body mass. The problem with most BCAA's are that they either don't survive the first pass of the liver and the liver converts the BCAA's into whatever it wants - usually glucose - and the other problem is that they have glutamine in them which blocks the same receptors for the BCAA's and you dont get the full value. There are many brands on the market to choose from - make sure they dont have glutamine in them. A good check is to test your blood glucose before and after you take any BCAA supplement and if you get a spike in your glucose level, you;ll be able to tell if your BCAA's got to where they need to get to or didnt. Overall your diet is pretty good - i would switch out your snacks for either a meal and a shake or 2 meals. can you swing in 6 egg whites in there for the first snack and say a 50g protein isolate for the second? Keep me posted Michael