A proprietary blend of essential amino acids and arginine to build muscle mass for physical performance and help prevent muscle loss during surgery recovery, bed rest, and natural aging.
Cyto-Matrix Muscle Matrix provides nutritional support to help preserve and maximize lean muscle mass during moderate and vigorous activity, involuntary loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength, and sedentary lifestyles.
Muscles are in a constant state of cell renewal known as catabolism and anabolism, where old and damaged muscle fibers are broken down and replaced with new, healthy fibers. Several factors influence these processes, but perhaps the two most important are amino acid availability and exercise, or lack thereof.
Muscle serves many important physiological functions beyond supporting physical movement, including metabolism and energy storage. Loss of lean muscle mass can be a predictor of health outcomes and is strongly associated with an increased risk of osteoporosis, falls, and fractures, and an overall increased risk of mortality. With all this in mind, it is essential to preserve muscle mass and prevent muscle loss with age.
Muscle Matrix includes a proprietary blend of arginine and all nine essential amino acids (EAAs). EAAs are unique compared to other amino acids in that the human body cannot synthesize them and therefore must be consumed through food. An adequate amount of EAAs in a specific ratio is necessary to match or exceed the rate of protein synthesis relative to the rate of protein breakdown. Conversely, if the body does not receive sufficient EAAs, it must scavenge for essential elements from the blood, muscles, or organs. Studies confirm that supplementing with an appropriate EAA blend can provide a net positive muscle balance both in a rested state and, to a greater extent, when combined with exercise.
The patented amino acid blend contained in Muscle Matrix is known as Reginator®, and it is backed by decades of clinical research to support its effectiveness in building and maintaining muscle mass. Research supports the ability of this specialized, low-dose amino acid blend to help increase muscle synthesis by twice the capacity of whey protein (often referred to as the gold standard for muscle anabolism). This application is certainly intriguing in the physical performance and athletic arena, but Reginator® also has strong application in the medical context. Reginator® has been shown to prevent and reverse muscle loss in bedridden individuals. Specifically, patients recovering from hip or knee surgery showed an 800% increase in strength, as measured by maximum voluntary contraction, after 8 weeks of supplementation, compared to patients who were bedridden alone. This improvement in strength only increased when exercise was added to the therapeutic intervention.
Outside of surgical recovery and physical performance, Muscle Matrix may even be beneficial in the context of a healthy aging population. It is well known that older adults consume less food, likely due to a combination of factors such as a decreased metabolic rate, a decreased sense of taste and smell, increased satiety, changes in digestive enzymes, and cognitive impairment. This is compounded by the fact that older adults have a 28% reduced ability to synthesize protein, and skeletal muscle begins to naturally decline as early as age 45. All of this is to say that older adults are an ideal target population for amino acid supplementation, as Reginator® maintains muscle strength even in the absence of exercise.
Muscles are in a constant state of cell renewal known as catabolism and anabolism, where old and damaged muscle fibers are broken down and replaced with new, healthy fibers. Several factors influence these processes, but perhaps the two most important are amino acid availability and exercise, or lack thereof.
Muscle serves many important physiological functions beyond supporting physical movement, including metabolism and energy storage. Loss of lean muscle mass can be a predictor of health outcomes and is strongly associated with an increased risk of osteoporosis, falls, and fractures, and an overall increased risk of mortality. With all this in mind, it is essential to preserve muscle mass and prevent muscle loss with age.
Muscle Matrix includes a proprietary blend of arginine and all nine essential amino acids (EAAs). EAAs are unique compared to other amino acids in that the human body cannot synthesize them and therefore must be consumed through food. An adequate amount of EAAs in a specific ratio is necessary to match or exceed the rate of protein synthesis relative to the rate of protein breakdown. Conversely, if the body does not receive sufficient EAAs, it must scavenge for essential elements from the blood, muscles, or organs. Studies confirm that supplementing with an appropriate EAA blend can provide a net positive muscle balance both in a rested state and, to a greater extent, when combined with exercise.
The patented amino acid blend contained in Muscle Matrix is known as Reginator®, and it is backed by decades of clinical research to support its effectiveness in building and maintaining muscle mass. Research supports the ability of this specialized, low-dose amino acid blend to help increase muscle synthesis by twice the capacity of whey protein (often referred to as the gold standard for muscle anabolism). This application is certainly intriguing in the physical performance and athletic arena, but Reginator® also has strong application in the medical context. Reginator® has been shown to prevent and reverse muscle loss in bedridden individuals. Specifically, patients recovering from hip or knee surgery showed an 800% increase in strength, as measured by maximum voluntary contraction, after 8 weeks of supplementation, compared to patients who were bedridden alone. This improvement in strength only increased when exercise was added to the therapeutic intervention.
Outside of surgical recovery and physical performance, Muscle Matrix may even be beneficial in the context of a healthy aging population. It is well known that older adults consume less food, likely due to a combination of factors such as a decreased metabolic rate, a decreased sense of taste and smell, increased satiety, changes in digestive enzymes, and cognitive impairment. This is compounded by the fact that older adults have a 28% reduced ability to synthesize protein, and skeletal muscle begins to naturally decline as early as age 45. All of this is to say that older adults are an ideal target population for amino acid supplementation, as Reginator® maintains muscle strength even in the absence of exercise.
Adults: Mix 1 scoop in 1 to 2 cups of water daily or as directed by a healthcare professional. Consume on an empty stomach for maximum benefit.
Ingredients (per 5.4g serving): L-Arginine 294.54 mg, L-Histidine 49.09 mg, L-Isoleucine 317.45 mg, L-Leucine 1191.20 mg, L-Lysine 497.45 mg, L-Methionine 98.18 mg, L-Phenylalanine 199.64 mg, L-Threonine 278.18 mg, L-Tryptophan 1.96 mg, L-Valine 327.27 mg Non-medicinal ingredients: Gum arabic, beta-carotene, citric acid, malic acid, stevia, natural flavor, natural pineapple flavor, maltodextrin.
