Branched chain amino acids, the ketogenic diet pill, and ketosis
Recently I have been combining exogenous ketones with BCAAs on my restricted protein ketogenic diet protocol to see how I react over time. Nutritional ketosis produces an increased ratio of plasma branched chain amino acids to aromatic amino acids which is one of its main proposed mechanisms of action for seizure control. It has been suggested that the high ratio of plasma BCAAs/ARAAs could be useful for epileptics as it results in decreasing ARAAs- (ARAAs supposedly increase the excitability potential of the brain entering the central nervous system ( Jirapinyo et al., 2004 )) . This shift resulting in a rise of BCAAs to ARAAs means that a state of ketosis will decrease the excitability potential of the brain and increase seizure threshold. The brain becomes more resilient to stress you could say and brain chemistry in general is more balanced as a result. I feel pretty good today but its just one day, one experiment, and the type I am taking also includes resveratrol and L...