4/19/10 Muscle Milk
April 19th, 2010 |
Muscle Milk
Muscle Milk is a protein supplement which has been carefully patterned after a mother’s breast milk, and is said to include the same healthy anabolic properties. Yes – you heard that right, a mother’s breast milk. The idea being, a growing bodybuilder can also benefit from the same anabolic properties of breast milk. “You know, babies grow really fast, so if I, a grown adult, drink it, then I will grow really fast. Actually collecting breast milk would probably get me arrested, so I’ll just buy Muscle Milk.”
One thing I will give Muscle Milk: It tastes AMAZING!!! But, as is often the case, it owes itsrich, creamy taste to the fact that it has lots of fat. More fat in fact, than a double-dipped waffle cone at Ben and Jerry’s, which probably tastes a lot better. Needless to say, anyone looking for muscle definition should steer clear
There’s also the issue of how much protein it has. 32 grams in the average serving. Do you know how much protein your body actually needs? About .12-.18% of your body weight. For someone who’s 200 pounds like me, it maxes out at 80 grams. Because you don’t need much protein, your body isn’t equipped to process much at any given time, any amount over about 25 grams just goes right through your system exactly as it came in.
What it is good for is people (like me) trying to gain both muscle and body fat, and if its advertisers were honest about that instead of marketing it to people with goals for just musclebuilding, I would have no problem with it. But it’s marketing makes promises that the product doesn’t live up to, and the company has propelled itself into the area of fitness myth propogation just to make more money. It’s sad, because Cytosport have a good product, just not good for everyone, in fact not good for 90% of the people who buy it.
