Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Whey Review
December 20th, 2009
In many whey products, it is nonexistent due to the type of processing employed. The best whey products will contain less than 1% lactoferrin-and more like 0.5%-of this rare but important micro-fraction. Some companies are now able to add in a optimum nutrition gold standard whey specific subfraction to get a truly “designer” protein. One company is also working on making an isolate that will have higher levels of the beneficial subfraction alpha-lactalbumin, and lower levels of the more allergenic and less nutritive subfraction Beta-lactoglobulin. “High alpha-lac” whey isolates would be potentially superior to what is currently on the market in large scale production.
The hype over hydrolyzed proteins was largely based on one rat study that found fasted rats given Hydrolyzed protein had higher nitrogen retention then rats fed whole protein. optimum nutrition creatine Human studies have shown that whey peptide-based diets in patients with cancer and crohn’s disease result in enhanced nitrogen retention and utilization. To date, no one has followed up with a human study with healthy athletes showing the same thing.
