Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Casein Protein

There are many different types of protein such as Whey Protein, Whey Protein Isolate, Hydrolysed Protein, Soy protein, Natural Protein and fat burning HydroxyBurn Protein.  Casein protein is another type and the main difference is, Optimum Nutrition Casein Protein is designed to digest very slowly. Most proteins have a medium to fast digestion rate making them ideal for everyday use or pre workout and post workout use. Optimum Nutrition Casein is ideal for a late night protein shake as it takes around 4 hours to digest. This means your body will be drip fed a constant supply of protein during the recovery and building stage.

Just to clear a couple of things up – you do not grow and recover in the gym or while you eat and move around. That’s right, your body recovers while you are sleeping or sitting still resting for longer than 10 minutes. So, supplying a continuous supply of protein during the recovery phase will assist to ensure your body can speed its recovery and improve its growth by utilising the food supply. Optimum Nutrition Casein Protein supplies 24 grams of protein per serve plus 10 grams of BCCA's with "0" Sugar.

Stave off a catabolic state. Catabolism is a state where the body actually breaks down muscle tissue to create food to feed itself. An Anabolic state is the state of burning fat to feed the body. An anabolic state happens possible when you have food in your stomach and your body is stimulated to require extra food to provide energy such as during exercise. At night when your body is recovering and repairing itself, it needs sustenance to supply the energy it needs to grow. If that sustenance is not available, your body will move to a catabolic state to get some energy. For a bodybuilder, this is the enemy as it will sow break down and reduce muscle size. To stop this happening, you need to take a slow digesting protein, Optimum Nutrition Casein Protein.

Optimum Nutrition also makes the world’s number one whey protein, Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Whey and one of the best mass gainers money can buy, Optimum Nutrition Serious Mass.