Athletic Edge Nutrition Presents:
IntraXCell The World’s First Beta-Alanine, Carnosine Boosting Formula in convenient capsule form.
When You Think of Beta-Alanine, We Dare You Not to Think of IntraXCell!
Boost Strength and Increase Lean Muscle Gains with IntraXCell! Athletic Edge Nutrition, The Nutrient Timing Specialists, is pleased to introduce IntraXCell, the biggest scientific breakthrough in physique enhancement and athletic performance since creatine. We have scientifically formulated precise doses of four key ingredients to create a product that will work synergistically to increase intramuscular Carnosine and Glutathione levels, which boosts strength, lean muscle mass and fights muscular fatigue at the cellular level.
The Result: Explosive Strength and Endurance, forcing lean muscle gains, physique improvements and muscular GROWTH!
IntraXCell is scientifically formulated to:
•Boost Explosive Muscular Strength and Endurance, Forcing Lean Muscle Gains.
•Increase Intracellular Carnosine Levels and Fight Muscular Fatigue & Metabolic Acidosis.
•Extreme Muscle Fullness and Vascularity.
•Naturally Boost the Power Antioxidant Glutathione and Fight Cellular Fatigue.
History is about to be made once again!
Until now, creatine, with numerous research studies to support its effectiveness, was the leading supplement for improving exercise and muscular performance. Since creatine exploded into the sports nutrition world in the early 90’s, our understanding of exercise physiology and sports nutrition has evolved exponentially. Exciting new research has given rise to another breakthrough, one that could change the direction of the industry like creatine did so many years ago..
Boost Strength & Lean Muscle Gains!
When you exercise or train at a high intensity, your muscles increase their production of hydrogen ions (H+) which lowers muscular pH, making them more acidic. This increase in muscular acidity (also called metabolic acidosis) directly interferes with muscular contraction, energy (ATP) production and increases fatigue, all factors that cause your performance to plummet. While muscle acidity has certainly proven to decrease strength and contribute to muscular fatigue, new research is now showing that exercise-induced intracellular free radical production is another source of muscular fatigue. The combination of muscular acidity and increased free radical production greatly diminishes your performance during exercise, stopping your workouts cold and interfering with lean muscle gains.
Fortunately, Athletic Edge Nutrition has developed a tool you can use to combat intracellular acidity and free radical production, pushing your performance, physique and results to the next level.
IntraXCell works to boosts strength, fight cellular fatigue and increase lean muscle gains in two ways:
1. Contains research supported Beta-Alanine, which effectively boosts
intramuscular carnosine levels, which works to fight/buffer fatigue-causing
Hydrogen Ions, allowing for extreme muscular strength, power and
endurance.
2. Increases production of the power antioxidant glutathione with N-acetyl-
cystine (NAC) and Alpha-Lipoic Acid. Glutathione is a power antioxidant
in your muscle cells that can improve exercise performance by preventing
damaging free radicals than can cause cellular fatigue.
Q: Who can benefit from IntraXCell?
•Individuals participating in weight training looking to gain lean muscle mass and increase strength.
•Any individual involved in athletic activities where strength, power and muscular endurance are needed.
•Active individuals who have reached a training plateau and are looking for something to take them to the next level.
Q: How long will it take for me to start noticing benefits?
Performance benefits typically start occurring in as little as two weeks, although some individuals will notice benefits within one week. As carnosine levels continue to increase, so will the benefits. The most dramatic results are generally experienced within the 3-4 week range, but they don’t stop there. Recent research is now showing carnosine levels continue to increase up to at least 12 weeks, so the benefits just keep on getting better which is why we recommend to continuously stay on IntraXCell for at least 3 months to optimize your carnosine levels.
Immediate benefits: Many users experience intense vasodilatation/pumps from the very first time they take their first does of IntraXCell. The reason this occurs is because Beta-Alanine increases carnosine and carnosine is a powerful precursor in generating nitric oxide synthase (NOS). NOS are a group of enzymes necessary for making the powerful vasodilator nitric oxide. Take IntraXCell with SteelEdge prior to exercise and let us know your experience. We are confident that you will be very pleased pumps/vasodilatation from your very first workout.
Q: There are a few other carnosine boosters out there, what makes IntraXCell different?
•With IntraXCell, you get a large 4 gram dose of Beta-Alanine per day complying to the actual dosage used in the scientific research. Other carnosine boosters put Beta-Alanine in proprietary blends and do not list the amount, so it’s impossible unless the company discloses the actual Beta-Alanine content for you to know if you are really getting a high enough dose to build up carnosine levels and reap all the benefits!
•Some formula’s that contain Beta-Alanine are Pre-Workout formulas. To increase intramuscular carnosine levels, research shows that daily supplementation of Beta-Alanine is required to boost carnosine levels. As a result, putting Beta-Alanine in a true Pre-Workout formula unless you are supplementing with extra Beta-Alanine separately or work out 7 days a week will not likely build carnosine levels up very effectively.
•IntraXCell is designed with no stimulants so it can be taken anytime during the day everyday including late night workout sessions. At Athletic Edge Nutrition we do no recommend taking stimulants everyday, so putting any stimulants in IntraXCell or any Carnosine booster would not be logical from our standpoint.
•IntraXCell is a true carnosine/glutathione booster without the unnecessary fluff that’s added to some of the other carnosine boosters currently on the market.
Q: Who can benefit from IntraXCell?
• Individuals participating in weight training looking to gain lean muscle mass and increase strength.
• Any individual involved in athletic activities where strength, power and muscular endurance are needed.
• Active individuals who have reached a training plateau and are looking for something to take them to the next level.
Q: How should I take IntraXCell?
Take two servings daily. IntraXCell may be taken with or without food, but we recommend it be taken with food as food may dampen the prickling sensation that some individuals experience from the Beta-Alanine content.
On Training days: Take one serving 15-20 minutes prior to exercise (can be conveniently taken with our Pre-Workout formula SteelEdge) and take one serving post workout. This protocol serves two purposes. One, it takes advantage the pre-workout timing benefits of increased blood flow driving Beta-Alanine into the working muscles. Two, the carbohydrate content in SteelEdge speeds up how quickly Beta-Alanine increases its performance benefits and there may also be synergy with the caffeine content in SteelEdge.
On Non-training days: Continue to take two servings daily with food.
Q: What is the effective dose of Beta-Alanine needed to effectivly boost intramuscular carnosine levels leading to performance benefits?
3.2 to 6.4 grams per day (IntraXCell has 4 grams per serving).
Q: How long will a bottle of IntraXCell last me?
There are 60 servings in a bottle of IntraXCell. Two servings daily gives you exactly one month worth of product. With a strong 4 gram dose of beta-alanine per day,you will see benefits much faster than lower dosed Beta-Alanine products.
Q: If one of the building blocks of carnosine is histidine, wouldn't it be beneficial to include it with beta-alanine to further boost muscle carnosine levels?
No, it wouldn't. Histidine is already present in high concentrations in muscle, while beta-alanine is present only in small amounts. Scientists have determined and demonstrated that it is beta-alanine that drives the intra-muscular synthesis of carnosine, not histidine.
Q: What other supplements do you recommend to maximize the results when taking IntraXCell?
•We recommend our Full Spectrum Pre-Workout Formula, SteelEdge. SteelEdge contains many ingredients that may work synergistically with IntraXCell. On training days, take IntraXCell with SteelEdge to amplify the benefits of each product.
•Creatine is another supplement that works well with IntraXCell and they can certainly be stacked together.
When You Think of Beta-Alanine, We Dare You Not to Think of IntraXCell!
THE Beta-Alanine/Carnosine Thread!
Hi everybody, I thought it would be a good idea and convenient for everyone who may not have followed our main FAQ thread over at bb.com to sumerize some of the key points and post them here!
IntraXCell, Beta-Alanine/Carnosine, CLIFFSNOTES…
Q: What is Beta-Alanine?
A: Beta-alanine is a non-essential amino acid that we get in our diet through protein foods such as chicken, beef, pork, fish and it also naturally occurs in the body.
Q: What does the actual research say that Beta-Alanine can do?
A:Currently the research shows, through boosting carnosine levels with Beta-Alanine, we can significant increases strength, power, lean muscle mass, muscular endurance, possibly body fat reduction and a very recent study showed Beta-Alanine improved AEROBIC endurance as well.
Q: What is carnosine and where is it found in our bodies?
A: Carnosine is a dipeptide of Beta-Alanine and histidine, that is found in both type 1 and type 2 muscle fibers, though significantly in higher concentrations in type 2 fibers.
Q: How does Carnosine work in our bodies?
A: Carnosine is thought to influence exercise performance in many ways, but the most studied and understood at this point is its ability to buffer hydrogen ions (H+).
Our bodies energy systems release H+ as they break down ATP, utilize substrates ect.. As a result H+ buildup and cause our pH in our muscles to lower(become more acidic). This lower pH effect directly interferes with muscular contraction, energy (ATP) production and increases fatigue, all factors that cause your performance to plummet
By boosting intramuscular carnosine levels, we can buffer some of these H+ and fight off some of the pH drop and all the negative performance effects it has during exercise.To function effectively, muscle cells rely on buffers like carnosine to avoid becoming acidic (low pH) during exercise. If you want your muscles to remain strong and maintain powerful contractions, they need to be in an optimal pH range. If they don’t and the pH drops below that optimal level, you have significantly less strength and fatigue more quickly.
You know this is happening when you feel that familiar burn in your muscles or even when you’re lifting heavy and reach muscular failure. Muscle pH has dropped and it’s largely a result of an increase in hydrogen ions (H+) which build up when you break down the high energy compound ATP during exercise. The breakdown of ATP and the subsequent rise in H+ concentrations occurs in our all of our energy systems but is most prevalent in an energy system called glycolysis which also produces lactic acid. Lactic acid releases H+ ions, contributing further to the pool of H+ that’s filling your muscles from the breakdown of ATP. With the presence of H+ pH drops fast as does muscular performance.
Q: Is the research on carnosine new?
A: Carnosine was discovered in Russia in 1900, but it wasn’t until over 50 years later that the first research on Carnosine and its effects on muscle buffering where published.
Q: Why not take straight carnosine instead of Beta-Alanine?
A: When you ingest carnosine in isolation, most of it is broken down in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract into its constituent amino acids, beta-alanine and histidine. Some intact carnosine does escape the GI tract freely but even that amount is quickly broken down in our blood by the enzyme Carnosinase. In a very short time, all the carnosine you just ingested is either eliminated or converted to beta-alanine and histidine. These two amino acids are then taken into the muscle, where they are converted back to carnosine with the help of the enzyme carnosine synthetase.
Q: Shouldn’t we take extra histidine along with Beta-Alanine since histidine is a component of carnosine?
A: The answer is no, because histidine is already present in high concentrations in muscle, while Beta-Alanine is only present only in small amounts. Researchers have determined that it is beta-alanine that drives carnosine synthesis, not histidine. Since this has been proven repeatedly in research, there is no need to supplement with extra histidine to increase carnosine levels.
Q: What is the dosage of Beta-Alanine being used in the research?
A: Beta-Alanine studies that are showing performance increases are using 3.2-6.4 grams a day, with the higher dose showing a faster increase in intramuscular carnosine levels and performance gains.
Q: How long will it take to start noticing benefits?
A: Performance benefits typically occur in as little as two weeks, although some individuals will notice benefits within one week. As carnosine levels increase, the benefits will follow. The most dramatic results are generally experienced within the 3-4 week range but they don’t stop there. Recent research is now showing carnosine levels continue to increase for a minimum of 12 weeks which is why we recommend staying on Beta-Alanine for at least three months to optimize your carnosine levels.
Immediate benefits: Many users experience intense vasodilatation/pumps from the very first dose of Beta-Alanine. Because Beta-Alanine increases carnosine and carnosine is a powerful precursor in generating nitric oxide synthase (a group of enzymes necessary for making the powerful vasodilator nitric oxide), this is an added, immediate benefit of Beta-Alanine.
Q: Are there any methods that may increase Beta-Alanine’s ability to increase Carnosine levels?
A: Yes. A recent study showed that a group of subjects taking Beta-Alanine with carbohydrates could increase performance gains very closely in half the time of the group taking an equal amount of Beta-Alanine without carbohydrates.
Q: What other ingreideints may enhance Beta-Alanine’s benefits?
A: When is comes to boosting carnosine or fighting cellular fatigue there are a few other key ingredients that either support Beta-Alanine’s carnosine boosting effects as well as boost a power antioxidant called glutathione that recent research shows may fight cellular fatigue. Some of these supportive ingredients act as direct precursors to the powerful antioxidant, glutathione and some work to support optimal carnosine levels.
1 N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) - increases glutathione levels inside the cell which is a power antioxidant that fights cellular fatigue. Interestingly Beta-Alanine has now been shown to increase the synthesis of glutathione by increasing the availability of its precursor cysteine. Beta-Alanine and NAC work perfectly together.
2 Vitamin E – Vitamin E has been shown to increase carnosine levels more than carnsoine alone. Carnosine has been shown to increases Vitamin E antioxidant ability. These two operate hand in hand.
3 Alpha-Lipoic-Acid – Finalizing this HIGHLY synergistic formula, alpha-lipoic-acid is utilized as a highly versatile antioxidant that boosts other antioxidants like Vitamin E and Glutathione.
Benefits of Beta-Alanine as supported by Scientific Studies
Increases:
Lean body mass (LBM)
Total work done (TWD)
Power output (PO)
Time to exhaustion (TTE)
Aerobic endurance
Intramuscular carnosine concentrations, increasing buffering capacity
Delays:
The onset of fatigue at physical working capacity/fatigue threshold (PWCft)
Ventilary threshold (VT)
Lactate threshold (LT)
History of Beta-Alanine
Although only recently brought to the forefront, Beta Alanine was discovered over 100 years ago. Also known as 3-aminopropanoic acid, it is a non-essential amino acid and is the only naturally occurring beta-amino acid. Not to be confused with L- Alanine, Beta- Alanine is classified as a non-proteinogenic amino acid as it is not used in the building of proteins and enzymes.
The greatest natural dietary sources of Beta-Alanine are believed to be obtained through ingesting the beta-alanine containing dipeptides: carnosine, anserine and balenine, rather than directly ingesting Beta-Alanine. These dipeptides are commonly found in protein rich foods such as chicken, beef, pork and fish. However, obtaining Beta-Alanine through these dipeptides is not the only way, as our bodies can synthesize it in the liver from the catabolism of pyrimidine nucleotides which are broken down into uracil and thymine and then metabolized into Beta-Alanine and B-aminoisobutyrate. Of course, it can also be ingested through direct supplementation.
Recently (2003), researchers began studying Beta-Alanine and examining its effects on exercise performance and lean muscle mass. We owe a great deal of credit and respect to the scientists who are in the trenches doing the work and publishing the research on Beta-Alanine. If it wasn’t for them, great supplements like Beta-Alanine and creatine might never have seen the light of day. Their ongoing research has revealed how to properly use these compounds and how to safely and effectively maximize their benefits.
One of the key scientists pioneering the performance research on Beta-Alanine is Dr. Roger Harris. His name may or may not sound familiar, but it should, as he is the same man that changed sports nutrition with his groundbreaking creatine study in 1992. It looks like the good doctor has found another juggernaut of a supplement in Beta-Alanine.
However, he is not alone. In the last two years, highly respected research scientist Dr.Jeffrey Stout has been in a frenzy publishing and compiling research on Beta-Alanine and doesn’t look to be slowing down any time soon. Other notable researchers who have been publishing research on Beta-Alanine include: Dr. Hill, Dr. Kim and Dr. Tallon.
How Does Beta-Alanine Work?
The support of high caliber researchers speaks volumes about the efficacy of Beta-Alanine and the science itself is even more impressive
Much of Beta-Alanine’s effects are realized by boosting the synthesis of carnosine, a dipeptide (two amino acids) intracellular (inside the cell) buffer. To understand how Beta-Alanine works, you must first understand its connection to carnosine. It is by boosting carnosine levels that Beta-Alanine exerts its outstanding performance benefits.
History and Background of Carnosine
The Russian scientist Gulewitsch was the first to identify carnosine in 1900. Eleven years later, he would discover and identify its constituent amino acids, beta-alanine and histidine. Seven years later, Barger and Tutin and Baumann and Ingvaldsen confirmed Gulewitsch’s findings. However, it wasn’t until 1938 that the first research on carnosine and its effects on muscle buffering were published.
Carnosine is found in both type 1 and type 2 muscle fibers, though in significantly higher concentrations in type 2 fibers (the fibers we primarily use in high intensity strength workouts and which are most responsive to growth). Before we discuss how carnosine works, you must first have a general understanding of what is physiologically occurring during exercise. Specifically, what is negatively affecting muscular pH, making us weaker and causing fatigue?
Hydrogen ions are released during exercise, causing performance to plummet.
When we exercise, especially when it’s high intensity exercise, our bodies accumulate a large amount of hydrogen ions (H+), causing our muscles’ pH to drop (become more acidic). This process is occurring whether you feel a burn or not.
The breakdown of ATP and the subsequent rise in H+ concentrations occur in all of our energy systems but H+ buildup is most prevalent in an energy system called glycolysis, which also produces lactic acid. At physiological pH, lactic acid dissociates H+ and is the primary source of released H+ ions during exercise, causing pH to drop. It is the released H+ from lactic acid that causes muscular performance problems, not the leftover lactate ions as many incorrectly believe. While lactic acid is the primary source of released H+, it is not the only source. H+ ions are also being released at a rapid rate when you break down the high energy compound ATP during exercise. With the presence of many sources during energy production releasing H+, pH quickly drops as does muscular performance, slowing progress and lean muscle gains.
While muscle acidity has certainly proven to decrease strength and contribute to muscular fatigue, new research is now showing that exercise-induced intracellular free radical production is another source of muscular fatigue. The combination of muscular acidity and increased free radical production greatly diminishes your performance during exercise, stopping your workouts cold and interfering with lean muscle gains.
Much more to come....
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How Does Carnosine Work?
There are a handful of ways carnosine is thought to impact performance but its most studied function, and the focus of this article, is its role as an intracellular buffer. Carnosine helps stabilize muscular pH by soaking up hydrogen ions (H+) that are released at an accelerated rate during exercise.
Our bodies work to keep our pH in balance by utilizing various buffering systems. Buffers largely work by soaking up H+ to maintain optimal pH balance, which we need to function most effectively. As mentioned above, our muscles function best in a specific pH range. When pH drops below that range, so does muscular performance. By helping to keep us in a more optimal pH range, our muscles can continue to contract forcibly for a longer time.
There are a handful of buffering systems that work in our bodies. Some maintain pH in extra cellular fluids (ECF) outside of the cell, while others perform their duties in intracellular fluids (ICF) inside the cell and some perform in both. Our focus in this article is on exercise performance and, as mentioned above, the primary source of H+ released during exercise is from lactic acid and ATP breakdown. Take a guess where this breakdown and release of H+ is occurring? If you guessed inside our muscles or intracellular, you would be correct. As a result, the first line of defense in absorbing the H+ is going to be the cell from intracellular buffers such as carnosine, not from extra cellular buffers.
Aside from carnosine being just where we need it, buffering H+ inside our cells, it has additional, unique attributes that make it really shine. Carnosine is unique; in that, other natural buffering systems our bodies use are also used in many other cellular reactions aside from buffering, watering down much of their buffering abilities. However, what makes carnosine really exciting, is that by supplementing with extra Beta-Alanine, we can specifically and dramatically increase carnosine levels. How much, you ask?
Researchers have shown that when supplementing with Beta-Alanine for just 4 weeks, we can increase our carnosine concentration by 42-65%. Longer Beta-Alanine studies going up to 10-12 weeks, show carnosine concentrations increased up to 80%. This is a tremendous increase in an already powerful intracellular buffer. It is this large increase in buffering capacity within our muscles that is largely responsible for the strength, lean muscle, power and muscular endurance gains that researchers are seeing from Beta-Alanine studies.
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Is Beta-Alanine safe?
While this is not a frequently asked question, it should be. We understand many people care most about gaining muscle, looking great and performing at their best but safety should not be overlooked. We believe it should actually be the first question asked when considering a new supplement, even before you question efficacy.
The answer to the safety question is a resounding YES. Studies, going up to 12 weeks of continued Beta-Alanine use, have looked at a large array of blood biochemical, hematological and hormonal markers and no negative changes have occurred whatsoever. While it is impossible to say Beta-Alanine is one hundred percent safe until longer term studies are complete, we do know that up to 12 weeks of continued Beta-Alanine supplementation is indeed safe.
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Why not just take Carnosine instead of Beta-Alanine?
When you ingest carnosine intact, most of it is broken down in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract into its constituent amino acids, beta-alanine and histidine. Some intact carnosine does escape the GI tract freely but even that amount is quickly broken down in our blood by the enzyme carnosinase. In a very short time, all the carnosine you just ingested is either eliminated or broken down into beta-alanine and histidine. These two amino acids are then taken into the muscle, where they are converted back into carnosine with the help of the enzyme carnosine synthetase.
Unfortunately, only about 40% of the carnosine you take actually contains beta-alanine, making it an inefficient source at best. You are better off, from both efficiency and a financial standpoint, taking Beta-Alanine directly. You would have to take substantially more carnosine just to approach the increased concentrations of carnosine achieved by taking the scientifically recommended dose of Beta-Alanine. Clearly, taking Beta-Alanine is the superior solution to increasing carnosine levels
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How do we know Beta-Alanine is actually increasing carnosine levels?
Researchers have proven it by actually taking muscle biopsies (using a hollow needle to remove a small sample of muscle tissue) prior to the study and at various time points throughout the study. What they found is that Beta-Alanine does, in fact, effectively and significantly increase carnosine concentrations in the range of 42-80%, depending on the dosing and duration of the study.
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Check it out everyone!! IntraXCell research study.
Shouldn’t I take extra histidine along with Beta-Alanine since histidine is a component of carnosine?
No. Histidine is already present in high concentrations in muscle, while Beta-Alanine is only present only in small amounts. Researchers have determined that it is beta-alanine that drives carnosine synthesis, not histidine. Since this has been proven repeatedly in research, there is no need to supplement with extra histidine to increase carnosine levels. There are potentially some select populations like vegans, vegetarians or the elderly that may not get enough histidine in their diets and are thus deficient, which may compromise optimal carnosine levels. But, we still don’t recommend taking just extra histidine with Beta-Alanine. Instead, we recommend these groups and simply bump up their total protein intake which will in turn solve their possible histidine deficiency. For the majority of healthy people, only Beta –Alanine is needed as histidine deficiency is rare and no extra supplementation is needed to increase carnosine concentrations.
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At what point during my workout set will extra carnosine concentrations exert their strongest effects?
Boosting carnosine levels with Beta-Alanine is effective at all points during your set, whether you’re lifting heavy or doing endurance work. Your body uses three energy systems to perform work: the ATP-PC system, which is primarily used during heavy lifting and for sets up into the 5-6 rep range; the glycolytic system, which is predominantly used roughly within the 7-15 rep range and up; and the oxidative/fat system, which is used primarily in endurance training. Our energy systems are utilized simultaneously; however, depending on the level of intensity or duration of exercise and fitness levels of the individual, certain energy systems will become more dominant in producing energy needed for that activity. Anybody who trains with weights will primarily use the first two systems and, in both cases, the build-up of hydrogen ions will contribute to fatigue in both systems, especially glycolysis.
This is where the supplement creatine falls a little short. It is mostly effective in the ATP-PC system, which relies on stored ATP and re-synthesis using phosphocreatine (PC) for intense, high-energy contractions. Taking creatine will help your explosive strength but it won’t help you much in the 7-15 rep range. As anyone trying to build bigger muscles knows, you must train in both heavy and moderate (7-15 reps) ranges to gain lean mass. Beta-Alanine, by increasing carnosine concentrations, can buffer/fight the H+ build-up that occurs in both these ranges, allowing you to maintain forceful contractions for longer periods of time.
Decreasing cellular fatigue is an additional strength of Beta-Alanine. A recent study demonstrates that Beta-Alanine significantly outperformed creatine in decreasing cellular fatigue, giving it yet another advantage over what has been considered the most effective sport supplement of the last decade.
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I just received my electronic version of Muscular Development(Nov pg190) and saw another one of our beta-alanine articles published. They actually forgot my name on the article this time, as Anssi and I collaborated on this write-up..lol But none the less, I wrote the beta-alanine section and Anssi wrote the leucine section.
This article is a head on comparison with creatine, showing their similarities and differences. As you all know, beta-alanine consistently gets touted as the next creatine for obvious reasons.
The point of this article was to show why it is often touted this way, but at the same time, also explain how this statement can be misleading if the details are not fully understood. Hopefully the intention of this article is understood and the reader realizes that beta-alanine DOES NOT replace creatine. At the same time getting the point across, that they do share many parallels, which brings about the comparison.
You all know I love beta-alanine, but I also have huge respect for creatine and do not want beta-alanine to be known as a replacement to creatine. Not only would it be inaccurate to market beta-alanine this way, it could also stop people from properly understanding how beta-alanine works and how different it is from creatine!
Creatine is one of my all time favorite supplements and NOTHING can ever replace it. I believe both creatine and beta-alanine to be the two most effective ergogenic aids in sports nutrition by FAR.
But none the less, I wrote the beta-alanine section and Anssi wrote the leucine section.
