Dr. Jan Kasprowicz - The Elite Performance Team Podcast | Athletic Performance and Essential Amino Acids

Dr. Jan Kasparowicz and Dominick Parillo, also known as the Elite Performance Team, featured Dr. David Minkoff on this episode of the Elite Performance Team Podcast to answer some of the most important questions on the subject of essential amino acids and their connection to athletic performance.

Dr. Jan Kasparowicz, DC, employs groundbreaking techniques to supercharge athletic performance in virtually any sport or discipline, resolve problems related to overtraining, and speed recovery from sports-related injuries. He teams up with acclaimed functional strength specialist Dominick Parillo to give you real, useful answers to help you maximize your athletic potential and longevity.

This episode covers the following subjects:

• 3:29– The science behind the performance-boosting power of EAA and why they are far superior to BCAAs, providing your body with the full scope of the amino acids needed to build and maintain muscle.
• 3:57– How BCAAs became a popular muscle-building supplement based on inaccurate scientific information and how the hype surrounding the supplement led to its popularity. Scientific data proves BCAA supplements are unable to increase muscle mass as they omit critical amino acids.
• 9:40– How regular consumption of EAAs supports long-term overall health, a high level of activity and longevity, and impacts a range of facets of a healthy body during aging. How an EAA deficiency affects the entire body, including gut health and bone strength.
• 12:22 – The root cause of osteoporosis and how the body is cannot maintain strong, healthy bones with a deficiency in EAAs. The lack of a collagen base on which calcium and phosphorus can be built, and how just calcium, without EAAs, cannot ward off bone loss.
• 13:34 – How essential amino acids play a vital role in bone and muscle healing, including disc herniations. Bone healing, particularly spine injuries, are significantly impacted by EAA to rebuild damaged cartilage.
• 14:14 – How the top riders on the Lance Armstrong bicycle team avoided tendonitis, sore joints, and energy loss during a long race by taking PerfectAmino. The team always found their bodies broke down, with painful joints and fatigue in the last week of a long race, which was resolved by taking EAAs during racing. When the body is under high stress, EAAs get you to the finish line.
• 17:15 – The ideal way to train when taking PerfectAmino, and how and when to take the supplement to maintain peak athletic performance and enhanced immune system support when putting the body under extreme stress.
• 19:25 – How to use the EAAs in PerfectAmino as a fueling strategy. Dr. Minkoff recommends 10 grams of Perfect Amino in the morning prior to a workout or directly before training to maintain strength and a faster recovery. A double dose is recommended for longer workout days as the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal system is under extreme stress and depleted of the EAAs it needs to perform.
• 21:12 – Weight loss and how EAAs support the preservation and building of lean body mass while losing body fat. Why calorie-restricted diets, such as the HCG diet, will cause you to lose one pound of muscle mass for every four pounds of fat. How Perfect Amino can help you preserve muscle mass during such a diet, as it has only four calories.
• 24:00 – An explanation of the vitamins and supplements to take in combination with PerfectAmino for sustained energy, enhanced athletic performance, and overall health. He gives exact recommendations to general health, as well as specific supplements to resolve gut problems and keep your gut functioning at its best.
• 27:37 – How BodyHealth Metal-Free protects the body when exposed to mercury, lead, arsenic, aluminum, and other metal-based toxins. The modern environment is loaded with metal-based toxins, and Metal-Free was explicitly developed to treat this problem. It contains special metal-binding peptides, antioxidants, and immune system stimulators to help flush harmful metals from the body.

Learn more about EAAs and BCAAs here!