Pharma Foods International Co. Ltd. shared a newly-released study at the ACSM Annual Meeting in Boston, demonstrating that supplementing with a post-exercise whey protein regimen with PharmaGABA produces an increase in resting serum growth hormone, improving the formation of lean muscle mass.
 
GABA (γ-Aminobutyric acid) is a naturally-occurring amino acid and key inhibitory neurotransmitter found in human cells. Serum growth hormone (GH) regulates various elements of body composition including the synthesis of muscle protein. Although GABA’s specific anabolic effect remains undefined, what’s been shown, for the first time is that oral intake of PharmaGABAalong with whey protein, a known means of stimulating skeletal muscle hypertrophy, enhances the process and produces demonstrably more lean mass than with whey protein alone.
 
The study looked at 26 males, aged 26 to 48, who practiced progressive-resistance weight training. The group was divided in two—all ingested 10 grams of whey protein daily, half supplemented it with 100 milligrams of PharmaGABA. The group trained twice weekly, following a systematized circuit of weight-resistance exercises. Resting serum growth hormone was recorded in blood plasma at baseline, four, eight, and 12 weeks; while change in muscle mass was measured using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) at baseline and twelve weeks.
 
The result was that while GH improved significantly for the group ingesting whey protein, the improvement quickly leveled off, whereas the addition of GABA demonstrated proliferation throughout the period of GH, and at the end of 12 weeks, lean mass was dramatically increased in the group taking both together.
 
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