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Essential amino acid supplementation improves cognitive function 🧠
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Essential amino acid supplementation improves cognitive function 🧠

A strategy for improved decision making?

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Tom Coughlin
Sep 28, 2024
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Essential amino acid supplements ingestion has a positive effect on executive function after moderate-intensity aerobic exercise

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Some amino acids, including the BCAAs leucine, isoleucine and valine, are precursors for neurotransmitters which subsequently impact brain function 🧠

Exercise also improves cognitive function, but could the addition o…

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