8 Essential Amino Acids: Why You Need Them

Proteins represent about 40% of humans’ dry body mass.

They form cellular structures, messengers, specialized tissues, enzymes, and much more. Needless to say, proteins are one of, if not the most, important nutrients in the animal kingdom. Ipso facto, amino acids are just as important as proteins because amino acids compose the structure of all proteins. Not only that, free amino acids, particularly the essential amino acids (EAAs), can be digested more easily than regular proteins without compromising physiological functioning.

This has great practical applications, such as consuming amino acids before or during exercise to help maintain muscle mass and fuel activity without upsetting the stomach as may occur with protein near exercise.

Let’s discuss amino acids in greater detail.

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There are 21 Amino Acids that Can Form Proteins.

Of these, 12 (leucine, isoleucine, valine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, cysteine, tyrosine, histidine, and arginine) are essential during childhood. With age, the body teaches itself how to synthesize cysteine, tyrosine, histidine, and arginine, reducing the number of essential amino acids to 8 (leucine, isoleucine, valine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, methionine, and lysine) during the teenage years and adulthood.

However, arginine, cysteine, glutamine, tyrosine, glycine, ornithine, proline, and serine may all become essential during periods of high stress, such as illness or overtraining. These are called conditionally essential amino acids.

Nonessential and conditionally essential amino acids can be synthesized from the EAAs, if necessary. Therefore as the name implies, the EAAs are the most important of the amino acids.

Our Essential Amino Acid formula contains all of the EAAs relevant to improving the athletic experience, plus a few others that are of unique importance to athletes.

Our Essential Amino Acid Formula has the EAAs and more – everything the athlete needs to accelerate recovery, reduce soreness, build muscle, and train harder.

How Two Doctors Created the Most Efficient EAA Formula

Dr. Kim and Dr. Serrano successfully formulated the BrickHouse Essential Amino Acids with proprietary amino acid ratios to promote efficient absorption of key raw materials needed to optimize fat loss, performance, daily energy, recovery and muscle growth.

Significant physique transformations require proper training, quick availability of the desired building blocks achieved through a strategic build up within the muscle bellies known as accretion and a naturally anabolic hormonal environment to activate elevated levels of protein synthesis. Women will not accidentally gain muscle due to differences between the male and female genetic make up, weight training and nutrition techniques.*

How does EAA facilitate muscle recovery?

The inability to absorb nutrients is a huge problem among trainees who may suffer from a series of food sensitivities or allergies created by over consumption of items such as eggs, milk and other sources of protein.

Amino acid loading with BrickHouse’s Essential Amino Acid supplement bypasses gastrointestinal absorption barriers that render other nutrient sources ineffective.*

EAA Drives Fat Burning

BrickHouse Essential Amino Acidsare complete protein sources, enabling them to be self sufficient as a raw materials source. Taken between meals and around training the unique signals sent by BrickHouse Essential Amino Acids make the brain believe a massive amount of food has been consumed.

As a result metabolic rate increases dramatically, but there is nothing to burn except stored fat since the proven scientific blend of amino acids have no caloric burden.

The same anabolic signals drive high levels of mental focus while reducing the energy zapping impact of elevated stress.*

The REAL Science Behind Our Formula

During many years of medical practice working with patients hungry for significant progress Dr. Serrano realized that the high quality of the ingredients were worth little if the net utilization of the raw materials were poor.

Reviewing scientific studies, muscle biopsies, patient hormonal blood work, body composition testing and performance evaluations helped Dr. Serrano Identify efficient absorption of the highest quality raw materials as the key to Substantial Muscle Growth and Fat Loss.*

Dr. Serrano began to study the hormonal and metabolic conditions created by placing muscles under the “stress” of resistance training. This scientific muscle mission lead to many utilization improvement breakthroughs by trial and error as a part of a series of patient studies. Following years of hard work the ratios were perfected and proven in the laboratory of real life- BrickHouse Nutrition’s Essential Amino Acids were born.

Speed of Delivery: A Major Differentiator

Our competitors address the nutrient and speed of delivery needs of muscles by throwing more raw materials at the problem without the proper ratios and this is about as smart as building a campfire with hundred dollar bills.

All they are doing is creating more confusion by sending mixed messages which result in very poor utilization rates.*

Our Essential Amino Acids

Scientifically engineered Free Form Acid Proprietary Formula designed to saturate working muscles with their preferred fuel sources.

Optimize your rate of neurological and muscle recovery to eliminate soreness while improving athletic performance. 

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