Muscle Milk
Unless you’ve just recently been released from capture by North Vietcong, you’ll probably have heard of Muscle Milk. It’s the new ‘wonder supplement’ which is supposed to do everything a bodybuilder desires… sometimes all at once… but does it?
So, what is muscle milk, what can it do, and is it worth the money?
Primarily, Muscle Milk is a protein supplement which comes in powder form. What differentiates this particular protein supplement from the others is – by fact or clever marketing – that this brand is actually said to be formulated to mimic a mothers breast milk.
I’m not joking – honestly.
Once you’ve stopped laughing, let’s first try to see the logic behind this. It’s a known fact that a mothers breast milk, by natures design, is highly anabolic, and just what a growing baby needs. The basic premise is, a bodybuilder looking to pack on weight, or burn fat, can also benefit from a similar formula.
Making up this synthetic breast milk is the fat ‘system’, trademarked as Lean Lipids™, said to be special fats which upon ingestion, are readily available to be burned off as energy for workouts, rather than simply being easily stored as body fat.
EvoPro™ is the trademarked protein system which is a complex mix of proteins, peptides, and amino acids, patterned after breast milk, and said to be highly anabolic.
While I’ve no personal experience in Muscle Milk yet (I’ll write a review when I have), I suspect that it works fairly well, from what I’ve seen. Although, like anything, people tend to get carried away and start attributing all of their success to it, and making claims which aren’t simply hard to believe, but, outright impossible.
Consider this: I’ve read posts from people who claim – at the exact same time – to have put on muscle mass and lost fat. This is simply not possible, because supplements or no supplements, everything comes down to calories. A calorie deficit for fat loss, and a calorie surplus for muscle growth… and common sense shows both environments can’t co-exist simultaneously.
Another issue is the cost; it’s a little more than other protein powders on the market, but many seem more than happy to pay for it.
So what should you do? Well, I firmly believe that the only foolproof approach is to give it a short go, say for 2 months, maybe. After all, I believe the least it will do is work as good as existing protein supplements.
