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leucine

One of the nine essential amino acids.



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L-leucine is an amino acid that is used by the body to fuel exercise and muscle-building to provide you with that athletic edge that gets you ahead of your opponents It does so in a number of ways, none of them specifically by the direct generation of energy as such L-leucine is an amino acid that is used by the body to fuel exercise and muscle-building to provide you with that athletic edge that gets you ahead of your opponents.
The experimental treatment involves "branched-chain amino acids," a combination of L-valine, L-leucine, and L-isoleucine, three of the twenty amino acids that naturally occur in all plants and animals and are the main components of all proteins.
 
 
 
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