Why you should always have citrulline malate in your shaker cup during a workout

By Mary Smith


There is nothing worse than reaching the end of a session or the end of a weeks training and you are left hurting and knackered. All your hard work and clean eating seems as though it has not paid off, you arent seeing any gains, you ache, have low energy levels and your incentive to train tough to your total potential just isnt there. Adding citrulline malate into your shaker cup and pre-workout routine can change all that. Citrulline malate is, as the name states, made up from citrulline and malate. Citrulline is an amino acid made in the body.

Malate is again a natural product, most widely found in fruits, its also made in the body and like citrulline, is concerned inside metabolic cycles necessary to our contentment and energy sources. First citrulline is a key intermediate within the Urea Cycle. This is a critical metabolic cycle inside our bodies as it makes allowance for the removal of highly poisonous waste from our bodies. The Urea Cycle occurs both outside and inside of a cell called mitochondria.

One of the reactions within this cell produces citrulline as end product of one reaction, while outside the cell citrulline is used as a reactant in another reaction. Citrulline is also an end product of arginine, which itself is a predecessor to NO reactions. Malate is concerned in the ATP or energy making cycle called the Krebs Cycle. ATP is utilised as an energy source by our bodies, without it we just wouldnt function properly.

Benefits of Supplementing with citrulline malate can increase NO production, giving increased vasodilation, vascular tone, increased neurotransmission, for instance. Reduces build up of poisons in the body such as lactic acid, ammonia and can stop acidosis (high acid blood levels) through the Urea Cycle. Increase rate of ATP production during exercise and phosphcreatine post work out.

Vasodilation, as we all know, allows for increased blood flow to and from muscles and organs. Not only giving essential muscle building benefits to the muscles, the dilation also takes away the bad noxious products away from them. The faster and more successfully the poisons are removed, the faster you can get over your sessions. Having elevated levels of energy production while working out enables you to go longer and lift heavier. The harder you train, the more build of poisons and the longer recovery you'd need. And the cycle goes on.




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