The Neuro Experience
Exercise Expert: The FASTEST Way to Lose Fat | Liz Plosser
May 26, 20261h 2m · 11,385 words
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Most people think tracking their protein is enough. The science says what your body actually craves is something far more specific and the person making that argument spent 23 years inside legacy media watching the wellness industry sell women everything from "bikini body in two weeks" to canned protein soda. In this episode, I sit down with Liz Plosser, former Editor in Chief of Women's Health, where she oversaw brands reaching 44 million women.
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There are three of them. Um, and they are leucine, which is sort of like the MVP of all the essential amino acids. It's the one that's, um, most active in activating muscle protein synthesis, um, and then isoleucine and then valine. So BCAAs are super important. They're great. The problem is you need all nine of the essential amino acids to activate protein synthesis in the body
“There was, um, a study that came out late last year, um, that looked at the top six selling creatine gummies on Amazon and four of them, four of the top six, when they sent them to an independent lab for testing, had zero creatine in them, which is crazy.”
“So the moment that you take creatine, your muscle absorbs five grams of that. So if you're only taking five grams, we got no, we don't have more leftover for it to penetrate the brain.”
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