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Best Protein Supplement

While ussually considered of as a muscle constructing supplement a protein supplement is much more than a “let’s get big” magic pill. It offers significant benefits to health as well as other, lower down the causal chain, positive effects. This article will discuss some of them.

Let me start by asking you a question. Why do you think a protein supplement is such a big help in building muscle? One answer that might not have jumped to mind is that: quality protein promotes good health. When is the last time you saw a sickly individual showing off a huge set of guns? How many buffed guys do you know that get health problems? Not that many I would bet, and this is because protein helps build up your body and you need to be at least marginally healthy before you can get some really big muscles.

Before moving ahead I would like to say that despite the fact I think most body builders are intelligent and health consious individuals, I think that their objective of building muscle at all costs sabotages their bodies. While I do recognise that some do not fall into this category I would like to caution you to never pursue bodybuilders advice to the letter, even when it comes to building and maintaining muscle mass. Having said that I think that a protein supplement is clearly one of the best health furthering instruments to ever come out of the bodybuilding culture.

Just so we’re clear I would like to say that the intention of this article is to explore the advantages that you get to your health and your athletic prowess that come from the consumption of a protein supplement.

Let’s get into some specifics:

Protein is THE macro nutrient as far as your body is concerned. Some of the functions that protein has are:

*plastic (colagen for example is the most abundant protein in the body and it makes your figure look smooth and wrinkle free and it keeps other parts of your body from sagging)
*making hormones (hormones are critical for your body for a smorgasbord of reasons, will be further elaborated upon)
*stimulates output of GH and IGF-1 (these hormones help reconstruct your body and keep you young, this is the stuff Sylvester Stallone uses to look the way he looks at 60+)
*furthering anabolism (protein helps suppress tissue breakdown and preserves lean muscle mass – a very time-tested biomarker of the health of a person)
*metabolism (is stimulated through many paths, from hormone modulation, to neurotransmiter buildup and even through the fact that protein is tougher to digest and therefore requires of your metabolism to step-up its yield of energy)
*arouses satiety (protein it is the most hunger quenching nutrient)
*insulin regulation (eating a high percentage of your calories as protein reduces blood insulin levels)
*getting shredded (by raising your protein consumption you will automatically have a lower percent of calories that is derived from fat or carbs, this will lead to a lowering of body fat percentage, especially if you make sure to eat often)

A protein supplement, let me rephrase that, a quality protein supplement used every day with the aim of increasing the total percentage of your calories that is ingested from protein is one of the simplest and most efficient ways to benefit your health.

One thing that you must see is that things like hormone regulation and metabolism stimulation translate into many other benefits.

Just to summarise

Besides building and maintaing lean tissue mass (which has numerous benefits in and of itself), you will notice things like improved memory, better reflexes and improved athlectic ability.

You will also look younger. This is due to building healthy skin, having a leaner body and a smile on your face (guaranteed to improve attractiveness).

Protein also makes your nervous system run more efficiently. It causes this by helping you build neurotransmiters and hormones.  Hormones such as human growth hormone increase bone density, muscle masss, metabolism and even affects psychological factors.

In this article you have learned some other ways in which a protein supplement can help you.

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