Why are the amino acids in Fortagen more effective?Updated a month ago
For protein synthesis to occur, all 8 essential amino acids must be present at the same time and in the correct ratio to one another. The more the ratio of the 8 essential amino acids changes from the optimal pattern, the less the body utilizes the protein. Fortagen has the most optimized amino acid ratios to maximize muscle growth. You get the highest protein nutritional value in the world at nearly 100% usage.
So when you consume a protein, a small percentage of the amino acids ingested are used anabolically but the rest are catabolized for energy or to make other non-protein molecules. The first step in breaking down the amino acids is to deaminate them, removing the NH2 amine group (which contains nitrogen). As a result, the nitrogen portion gets excreted as waste - typically in urine.
The researchers in the above study were able to compare how much of the protein/amino acids were utilized anabolically by measuring the total nitrogen that was present in waste byproducts. As a result, they established the net utilization of various types of proteins, including eggs (48%), meat/fish (32%), and whey (18%). By comparison, we can see that when Fortagen is consumed, nearly 100% of the amino acids are actually used for anabolic processes because there is little to no nitrogen is being wasted.
So if you have 100% utilization of Fortagen vs. ~20% utilization of the whey protein, it necessarily means that the Fortagen is 5X as effective (5 X 20 = 100). Taking a single dose of Fortagen is like taking 5 doses of whey protein because the Fortagen is so much more readily available for your body. This means that for every 50g of whey protein you take, you only need 10g of Fortagen to get the same result.