Why do you train, eat right and supplement? To get bigger, to become leaner, performance, health? No doubt one your goals will fall under one of those categories to a varying degree. Considering this, the question has to be asked – would drinking large amounts of sugar benefit any of these goals? Then why are so many companies packing their supplements with sugar?
There are serious health and performance effects sugar can have upon the user. There is a mountain of clinical and empirical evidence which points to the dangers of sugar within the diet, considering most of you would be worried about performance and your physique consider the evidence which shows that sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein,1 Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause a permanent alteration of the way the proteins act in your body2, Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to function3, Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as increasing estrogen in men4, Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function5 – hardly the perfect environment for optimal performance and building a great physique is it? And this doesn’t include the negative health aspects such as Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.6, Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol7, Diets high in sugar will increase free radicals and oxidative stress8, as well as Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease9.
Again to ask the question why are so many companies packing out there products with sugar? The answer is multifaceted as sugar has several benefits to their company. Firstly sugar is an easy way to make many harsh tasting amino acids taste good – it will sweeten the product and make it much more palatable and let’s be honest if a product doesn’t taste good the vast majority will not want to use it so supplement companies opt for filling some of their products with sugars and overly processed carbohydrates which whilst technically are not sugars act upon the body in the same manner.
The second reason supplement companies do this is to bulk out their products and increase their profit margins because sugars are cheap compared to many of the active ingredients found within the supplements. At this point many companies will counter claim that sugars will act as potent regulator for nutrient uptake and improve the effect of the other ingredients and to a degree this is true as sugar will increase insulin which is the hormone which drives nutrients into cells, but the truth is there are more healthy ways of doing this including using high glycemic whole foods such as bananas, dried fruit or even certain grain products or alternatively relying upon insulin mimicking or insulinotropic amino acids such as Taurine or Leucine which will actively aid the transport of nutrients into the muscle cell without having to rely upon pure sugar. Most of the ‘all in ones’ on the market don’t have enough carbohydrates in them to be an effective recovery agent anyway as the optimal carbohydrate to protein ratio for recovery would be a two to one ratio of carbohydrates to protein so you would need to add other carbohydrates to them to optimise effectiveness anyway.
Equivalent teaspoons of sugar per serving
Cyclone
Synergy
Profusion
Lucozade pro muscle
Pro solo
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Considering all of this is their a solution to avoid the harsh pitfalls of sugar laden supplements whilst still benefiting from a great all in one supplement? The answer is yes with MM5 only the five key ingredients for performance and physique development being included within a product that’s great tasting due to tireless work with flavouring systems to produce an end product that’s flavour is unmatched for a low carbohydrate all in one supplement.
MM5 has eliminated the need for sugary carbohydrates by combining the correct amount of taurine and leucine to produce a product which drives nutrients into the muscle without unhealthy cheap sugars, leading to improved performance, enhanced muscle growth and a leaner physique.
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3. Appleton, Nancy. New York; Lick the Sugar Habit. Avery Penguin Putnam, 1988 enzymes
4. Yudkin, J and Eisa, O. Dietary Sucrose and Oestradiol Concentration in Young Men. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 1988:32(2):53 55
5. Lewis, G. F. and Steiner, G. Acute Effects of Insulin in the Control of Vldl Production in Humans. Implications for The insulin resistant State. Diabetes Care. 1996 Apr;19(4):390 3 R. Pamplona, M. .J., et al. Mechanisms of Glycation in Atherogenesis. Medical Hypotheses. 1990;40:174 181.
6. Sanchez, A., et al. Role of Sugars in Human Neutrophilic Phagocytosis, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Nov 1973;261:1180_1184. Bernstein, J., al. Depression of Lymphocyte Transformation Following Oral Glucose Ingestion. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.1997;30:613
7. Scanto, S. and Yudkin, J. The Effect of Dietary Sucrose on Blood Lipids, Serum Insulin, Platelet Adhesiveness and Body Weight in Human Volunteers, Postgraduate Medicine Journal. 1969;45:602_607.
8. Ceriello, A. Oxidative Stress and Glycemic Regulation. Metabolism. Feb 2000;49(2 Suppl 1):27 29.
9. Vaccaro O., Ruth, K. J. and Stamler J. Relationship of Postload Plasma Glucose to Mortality with 19 yr Follow up.
Diabetes Care. Oct 15,1992;10:328_334. Tominaga, M., et al, Impaired Glucose Tolerance Is a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease, but Not Fasting Glucose. Diabetes Care. 1999:2(6):920 924.
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