Hey guys, I'm looking into the Paleo diet and am curious if BCAA's are ok while doing Paleo.
Should not a problem using BCAAs when following the Paleo diet.Hey guys, I'm looking into the Paleo diet and am curious if BCAA's are ok while doing Paleo.
Hey guys, I'm looking into the Paleo diet and am curious if BCAA's are ok while doing Paleo.
The problem with the paleo diet is that you are most likely not active enough for it to help. Our ancestors foraged daily typically on a empty stomach until they found food, they also hunted which required days of tracking sometimes. You just cant compare going to the gym 3-5 days a week for even 3 hours to what they did. Maybe if you ran to the gym daily than trained but thats it.
Sure If it were me, I would take bcaas on this diet, if it were me knowing that cavemen were more active I would eat less calories because you will need less than them, therefore adding bcaas to your snack meals or all meals like nuts would be great there so cheap I would mega dose them.Cheap supllements brand bcaas are really cheap and work, check them out. Try them on a empty stomach however I think they will be mostly destroyed by stomach acids before being fully digested. I would say pop a few fish oils first on a empty stomach than wait about 3-5 min and pop bcaas, it might help.That's a valid point, but the cavemen weren't tryingto build.muscle and stay lean either. They didn't care if they lost muscle mass or not. I would be concerned and was curious if BCAA's would benefit since there aren't any calories in them.
Ok thanks.Imo bcaas are food dependent they turn a little snack into a better amino profile, not to be taken on an empty stomach.
no problem, not trying to bash your diet, hope it works, lots of people like it and do well on it, just give it ample time like 3 months, most cutting diets try not to loos more that a pound a week but if your not concerned with muscle loss than go super low calories, right before the point of driving you mad with hunger, you will loose more like 2 pounds a week, some muscle for sure. I did this when i was fat went from 200 fat to 164 at 7-8% bodyfat pounds cutting to hard, now trying to build back up. In general add your cals and burn more than you eat and this will occur, it has to, your body will have no option.Ok thanks.
Thanks for the insight. I'm not looking to be dogmatic about it, so it wouldn't be a big deal.I eat a paleo/primal/caveman/(whatever you want to call it) diet myself. BCAA's are not on the "restricted foods" list, if that's what you're wondering. However, as JudoJosh pointed out, most paleo-lifestyle types will argue that our primal ancestors didn't use supplements (they got their BCAAs from food) -- so if your goal is to emulate the primal lifestyle as accurately as possible then you'd skip the BCAA supps and just eat your whole food protein.
That said, like Rodja, I use them in conjunction with my primal diet. I do this because I have different goals than the typical caveman, and BCAAs assist me in achieving these goals.
But so you know, the #1 reason that most paleo experts would tell you NOT to use BCAAs is that they are HIGHLY insulinogenic. That is, BCAAs stimulate your body to release large amounts of insulin (much like sugar). One of the main benefits (if not THE main benefit) of paleo eating is that you keep insulin under control almost all of the time. So BCAA supplementation may be seen as counterproductive to this benefit.
Imo bcaas are food dependent they turn a little snack into a better amino profile, not to be taken on an empty stomach.