7 reasons the math actually works. Scroll to see.
Try BlueminThe calorie count of protein shakes relie almost entirely on the fat, and sugars that surrounds it.
Building muscle requires 20 amino acids. Your body manufactures 11 of them on its own, every day. The other 9 it cannot make. Those 9 are the only reason you eat protein.
9 / 20Whey is 18% utilized for building muscle. The rest becomes waste, fat storage, or flushed out. You're paying for 30g and receiving the muscle benefit of 5g.
18% utilized
Amino acids themselves carry 0 calories. The 150 calories in a whey shake come from lactose, fat, and sugar. Strip the packaging away and the calories disappear.
~150 cal from packagingOne serving delivers exactly the 9 amino acids your body cannot make on its own. Nothing else. No fat, no lactose, no fillers, no non-essential aminos. That's why the calorie count is zero.
9 essential aminosWhey requires 3 to 4 hours of digestion to break the protein chains down into individual amino acids. Amino Core is already in that final form. There's nothing to break down. Absorption takes 30 seconds.
30 seconds
Whey contains lactose (bloat, gas, breakouts) and triggers IGF-1, the same hormone associated with adult acne. Amino Core has neither. The 9 essential aminos go to muscle without the hormonal side effects.
0 side effects
Amino Core is utilized at 99%. Nearly everything you take goes directly to muscle protein synthesis. That's the difference between paying for what you eat and paying for what you actually use.
99% utilizationSame goal. Completely different results.
Whey Protein
Amino Core
The math works in the mirror, too.
Five shakes a day was destroying my gut. Switched the post-workout and pre-bed shakes to Bluemin. Sleeping again, growing again.
I've cut three times this year without bloat for the first time in a decade. The before/after photos finally match how I feel.
Stopped traveling with a shaker bottle. Bluemin lives in my dopp kit. Protein hit, every day, on the road.