Nutritional health is achieved through the therapeutic use of whole foods, safe culinary preparation, and understanding the metabolic impacts of specific dietary frameworks and ingredients.
Catabolism -- or the wasting of lean muscle tissue -- should be avoided at all costs. Not only do you get weaker and more prone to injury, your metabolism will slow, decreasing how many calories you burn at rest.
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BCAAs are not vitamins, they are amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. Each individual amino acid has its own specific function, and the branched-chain amino acids are no different.
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Conjugated linoleic acid, an essential fat often found in red meat, helps you burn fat and build lean muscle. While carnitine, an amino acid, helps burn fat within the cells of your body, studies showing the effectiveness of carnitine as a fat burner have been lacking.
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