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What Is Hydrolyzed Protein?
Hydrolyzed Protein is protein that has under gone an enzyme process much like that which happens in your digestive system. Specific enzymes have ‘predigested’ the protein allowing for faster transport through your digestive system, into your body. Within your digestive system, because the enzyme process is not controlled, there is no way of controlling the enzymes to stop breaking down the protein further when a specific growth factor, immune factor or bio-active peptide has been reached. In HP-100's case, the hydrolyzation process is all controlled. The enzymes are controlled to cleave the protein peptides at a precise point to isolate the growth factors, immune factors and bio-active peptides. With there being different levels of Hydrolyzation, the higher the level, the more growth factors, immune factors and small peptides will be isolated within the protein allowing for faster assimilation of the protein into your body, supplying 'bio-active' peptides which will give you better results..
How do you know you've Purchased a Poor Quality Protein?
We know it can be confusing, just enter any health food store and look at the vast number of protein supplements on the shelves. Add to this the deceiving advertisments. Every label promises the world but not many deliver the goods. One way to find out if your particular protein is good is to have an independent test run by a lab which is not only inconvenient but extremely costly aswell.
These are some of the symptoms you will experience when using an inferior protein:
If the protein you are using, even if mixed in water, constantly gives you gas, have flatulance, makes you bloated or gives you stomach upsets, this suggests that this product contains lactose and/or the protein has been cheaply processed. This means that the claims made on some protein labels as 'zero carbs','zero sugar' and 'zero fat' are absolutely false. But the companies get away with it because of the cost involved in proving otherwise. We highly recommend that you return it to the outlet and ask for your money back.
Advantage of Faster Absorption
The faster a protein can be absorbed within your body, the better you will be able to recover. If you are using a protein after training for recovery & muscle growth and don’t put on any muscle within 14 days, the protein is being absorbed to slow, therefore you are using the wrong protein, wasting your money. It has been scientifically proven that fast absorbing protein's like HP-100 when taken frequently induce an anabolic growth effect where as slower absorbing proteins only prevent muscle tissue loss. Because HP-100 is hydrolysed to the highest level, your digestive system sees it as being fully digested and it is absorbed straight away. Muscle growth and recovery is a certainty with ASN’s new HP-100.
No Stomach Upsets & Bloating
You may have noticed other proteins cause stomach discomfort, bloating and flatulence. This is because the digestive enzymes produce partially broken down protein from complex and poorly processed protein, including milk, which then pass down through the digestive chain to be broken down by bacteria. Lactose has the same effect which causes digestive problems. Due to the action of bacteria breaking down the proteins and lactose, hydrogen sulphide and other products of putrefaction are produced causing bloating and flatulence. However with HP-100 this problem is non existent. The Peptides, specific growth and immune factors, that are in HP-100 have been separated from impurities, including lactose, through many stages, then each isolated peptide undergoes an enzyme process much like that which occurs in your digestive system. Because HP-100 is fully ‘hydrolyzed’ its specific peptides are absorbed straight away with no side effects ( eg: bloating, flatulence, etc..). It’s like having an injection of protein, going to work straight away.
Effortless Mixing
Because HP-100 contains isolated and separate peptides within the powder, they are easily dispersed in water when mixed in a drink shaker. One serve (28g), provides over 90% protein, and easily mixes in only 200ml of water, providing a simple chocolate or vanilla tasting drink. With other ‘protein shakes’ it is recommend you mix them up with at least 500ml of milk. After training most people don’t feel like a ‘milk shake’. Because HP-100 is mixed in only a small amount of water, it makes it very easy to consume directly after training.
A lot of people judge a protein by the amount of amino acids it has per serving. This is true in regards to comparing the amount of protein in the product against another but it is not related to the performance of the product or the amount of ‘bio-active’ peptides in the protein. It’s the ‘bio-active’ peptides that have the specific functions within our body and not the individual amino acids. The amino acids are the building blocks for the peptides.
There are millions of combinations for the peptides, ones that are used by the body, ones that are not used and ones that are dangerous and toxic. It is the ones that are used in the body that we should be interested in. Unless these are in an isolated form then the possibility of them being absorbed intact is very remote as discussed earlier. Therefore, it is the amount and type of isolated peptides which governs the best protein and not the quantity of protein or the amino acid profile.
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