Description:

You want to recover. You don’t want to gag while doing it.

We chose the protein blend and taste for Core PRO with that in mind. Our mix of proteins have a robust and complete amino acid profile that has been shown in research to increase lean muscle impact – while our flavoring tastes like a cheat!

• 1 scoops per serving.
• 28 (2LB)/70 (5LB) servings per container.
• Protein blend with gourmet taste.

What do you look for in a protein supplement? More importantly, what should you look for? Let’s be honest: in 2020, taste is paramount to the experience. Amazing taste was our priority for the reformulation of Core PRO – and we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams, if we say so ourselves.

But this is Core Nutritionals, meaning that function must always match taste and form. Core PRO is no different. While the protein blend in Core PRO was always industry-leading, we have made it even better. Our blend of whey concentrate, whey isolate, and milk protein isolate delivers smooth texture, fast and slow-digesting proteins, and a complete amino acid profile that suits your needs. In other words, have perfected the marriage of TASTE AND PERFORMANCE, and the result is Core PRO.

Core PRO is a clinical-strength, sustained release protein formula, specifically designed to keep you fueled with the right growth/recovery agents over extended periods of time. This innovative blend provides the perfect arrangement of both fast-uptake and sustained-release proteins, from superior cold-processed whey proteins and micellar casein-rich milk protein sources. This strong synergistic blend helps promote optimal growth and recovery by providing the vital building blocks your body needs, exactly when you need them most. Our superior protein blend contains a generous array of BCAAs (branched-chain amino acids) in their naturally-occurring biological ratios, to delay fatigue and expedite your recovery.

The benefits don’t stop there. To make this the most effective recovery formula available, we’ve enhanced it with a powerful digestive enzyme blend, including protein-digesting proteases, to improve absorption and accelerate nutrient uptake. The beneficial fatty acids from MCTs (medium chain triglycerides) in Core PRO help preserve lean mass while unleashing your body’s natural metabolic potential. And unlike some formulas, you never have to worry about taking it at the wrong time. Staying fueled all day or overnight never tasted so good!

Ingredients:

We said above that protein powders need to – or at least should – have a purpose: to improve recovery times, and ultimately, body composition. But how does that occur? Or more specifically, what needs to happen in the body in order to recover from a workout, and subsequently improve body composition. To sum it up with one phrase, net protein balance needs to be positive.

When you vigorously train or exert yourself, a process called protein degradation (the breakdown of muscle protein) begins so that the body can fuel itself, and a process called muscle protein synthesis (the creation of muscle protein) slows down. Think of this like shutting off your engine (protein synthesis), in order to fuel your car (muscle protein breakdown). As this entire process plays out, the available pool of amino acids in skeletal muscle depletes, as they too are drawn in and broken down in the natural, catabolic process during exercise training.

While this situation is quite adequate during a training session, it’s precisely the opposite of what we want afterwards. At that point, we want the available pool of amino acids to increase, protein degradation to slow or stop, and muscle protein synthesis to increase. Enter protein supplements. Protein powders are a quick, convenient way to rapidly increase the available pool of amino acids in skeletal muscle.

However, not all proteins are created equal when assessed within the matrix of molecular triggers, enzymes, and amino acids that constitute skeletal muscle protein synthesis. Low quality blends, fillers, masking agents, and the like reduce the net protein content of many protein products, ultimately reducing lean muscle impact.

A quality protein supplement not only contains a high amount of protein, but the protein sources from which it draws need to be themselves high quality – and the benefit a particular protein source has can be assessed by analyzing its amino acid profile. Human skeletal muscle makes the most use out of a few, particular amino acids (the BCAAs among them), and so a quality protein needs to have an amino acid profile that is optimal for this context.

We chose the protein blend for Core PRO with optimization in mind. Our mix of cold-processed undenatured whey protein concentrate, cross-flow microfiltered whey protein isolate, and milk protein isolate has a complete amino acid profile that has been shown in research to increase nitrogen retention, lean muscle impact, and satiating ability (the feeling of fullness). This blend has also been specifically configured to provide both rapid and sustained additions to your body’s amino acid profile – meaning your recovery is not only supported immediately after a session, when you most need it, but over time as well.

Best of all, we have moved to a fully transparent label for Core PRO. Meaning that not only do we disclose the protein sources themselves and their specific yields, but we have also disclosed the entire formula’s amino acid profile. You can see, for example, that each serving yields a full 2.6g of leucine – a leucine dose supported in the literature to maximally increase muscle protein synthesis.

Here is a more complete breakdown of each protein source:

Cold-processed undenatured whey protein concentrate: Whey protein concentrate is probably the most common form of whey protein you will find. However, how it is processed is where the benefit truly lies. This process of cold processed undenaturization preserves the molecular structure of the amino acid particles as well as the immune boosting benefits that it contains. This undenatured protein is also a rich source of amino acids, including those needed for the synthesis of glutathione, which is an important antioxidant that can be depleted by stress (exercise stress included). This makes it a great foundation for your post workout recovery nutrition.

Cross-flow microfiltered whey protein isolate: whey protein isolate is an extremely “clean” form of whey protein. It yields a higher amount of amino acids, half of which are from the essential amino acids (cannot be made by the body). Microfiltration eliminates a large majority of the fat and lactose from the whey, which makes it easily digestible and quickly absorbed into the body. This cross-flow process uses a highly intricate method to isolate the protein. It is not subjected to chemicals and is thus left in its most natural state.

Milk Protein Isolate: milk protein isolate is obtained through the partial removal of non-protein materials from skim milk (lactose and other minerals). What you are left with is a dry product that contains more than 90% protein by weight. This product contains both casein and whey proteins in their original proportions found in milk, without combining separately produced casein and whey proteins. It contains very little fat and lactose and also has a very high amino acid composition making it a perfect addition to this blend.

This blend has also been specifically configured to provide both rapid and sustained additions to your body’s amino acid profile – meaning your recovery is not only supported immediately after a session but will also carry you to your next meal. On top of that, our flavors are out of this world! We’ve also boosted this protein blend with digestive enzymes that will provide you with all of the confidence that those nutrients you just supplied your body with will do their part in your quest for the optimal result!

DigeSEB Digestive enzyme blend:

One can easily make the argument that dietary enzymes – and in particular, digestive enzymes – are the most consistently underrated and overlooked component to a supplementation regimen. These powerful little protein structures influence or outright control a vast, complex network of bodily functions. In a fitness-specific context, digestive enzymes play an absolutely crucial role in the breaking down of dietary carbohydrates, fats, and proteins into their constitutive parts, and therefore allow your body to use them in various processes (glycogenesis, protein synthesis, etc).

Despite their critical function, many supplement companies overlook the necessity of digestive enzymes and do not include sufficient levels (and kinds) of enzymes in their products. For a whey product, in particular – a compound that requires significant digestion and breakdown – this is madness.

As usual, we take a much more comprehensive, clinical approach than the average. In Core PRO, we have included a digestive enzyme blend called DigeSEB comprised by amylases, proteases, lactases, amylases, and cellulases, allowing for a full and complete breakdown of all PRO’s components. Research suggests that whey absorption through the blood is heavily impacted by its gastric digestibility. Using DigeSEB ensures that the protein – along with its milk and whey sugars and fats – are completely broken down.

DigeSEB ensures that Core PRO not only provides gourmet taste and clinical ingredients within the protein itself, but that your protein also increases the effectiveness of your pre and post-workout nutrition in general.

Coconut Oil Creamer (Medium Chain Triglycerides):

Coconut oil made of 100% Medium chain triglycerides has been shown to have the greatest health benefits. MCTs are made up of a chemical structure that allows them to quickly and effectively bypass gastric uptake for transport directly to the liver for oxidation and then used for energy. Their unusual chemical structure and metabolic process has resulted in MCTs being a focus for a wide range of therapeutic and exercise supplement uses.

In the context of exercise science, recent research has shown that MCTs significantly (up to 65%) increase resting energy expenditure, along with dose-dependently reducing fatty acid deposition in adipose tissue. These results suggest that MCTs are effectively increasing the body’s metabolic response to food intake.

References:

For references, see below file;

Core Nutritionals: Core PRO References

Description:

Growing and gains should fit into your life, not pose a problem to it.

Core GROW is a gaining solution that factors in the reality that people taking it still live a life, still have a diet, and need a gainer that occupies a beneficial place in them. Complete proteins, healthy fat, and whole food based carbs, all in a single scoop.

• 3 scoops per serving.
• 15 servings per container.
• High calories for growth.

When you hear someone say “This is the best gainer on the market,” what qualities do you think of? High in complete proteins, great carb source, healthy fats? Seems simple enough. Yet, how many gainers really qualify for that definition?

Core GROW does and is hands down, flat-out, the most complete, soundest gainer on the market with the highest quality ingredients. There’s no flashy “new carb” technologies in GROW – there’s only a whole food-based carb blend derived from the foods you are already eating. Quick: name a fitness staple for carbs. You answered oats, and so did we. That’s why oatmeal flour is the cornerstone of our carbohydrate blend – along with nutritionally dense sweet potato and quinoa flours.

Complete proteins? How about cold-processed, undenatured whey protein concentrate? But we doubled it. Not only is our protein a complete protein, but some of our carbs are too – quinoa is among a handful of plants that provide a complete amino acid profile.

Healthy fats? How about coconut oil powder, avocado powder and MCT oil powder? Rich, nutrient dense fats derived from real foods.

And of course, to help you digest this meal in a scoop, we’ve included an industry-best enzyme blend. Not to mention that nearly every ingredient in our formulation has a vitamin, mineral, and micronutrient profile that would make a dietician blush with envy.

Growing and gains should fit into your life, not pose a problem to it. Core GROW is a gaining solution that factors in the reality that people taking it still live a life, still have a diet, and need a gainer that occupies a beneficial place in them. We said above that this is the best gainer on the market, and we meant it. Now you simply need to grab some GROW and see for yourself.

Ingredients:

BRO-Carb Blend:

The carbohydrate blend in Core GROW is composed of four sources: barley flour, oatmeal flour, sweet potato flour, and quinoa flour. As individual plants and food products, a very large and robust amount of literature exists to support the roles of oats, sweet potato, and quinoa in achieving and maintaining a healthy life.

Oats (Avena sativa) have been cultivated and used for either human sustenance or animal feed for at least 2,000 years. Oats – along with other cereals – have been regarded as an important source of nutrition or a dietary staple on a global scale during most of that period. Recent research into the plant has established the scientific consensus that oats are a “health food” for a myriad of reasons.

The United States Food and Drug Administration, for example, ruled that consuming a 3g serving of oat fiber daily had been shown to reduce both total and LDL cholesterol in 1997. In the nearly twenty years since that ruling, significant scientific consensus has emerged that oat fiber, consumed in at least 3g per day, play a role in the regulation of lipoprotein levels.

Studies on other oat benefits have demonstrated similar results. Studies conducted since 1992 have demonstrated the regular consumption of oats is positively associated with the regulation of satiety through appetite-controlling hormones, maintaining a healthy blood pressure, and assisting in the healthy production and regulation of glucose.

Research on barley has shown similar effects. For example, in a study with 25 hypercholesterolemic patients (a mixture of women and men), adding barley to a diet specifically-tailored to reduce cholesterol demonstrated ever further reduced LDL and helped to balance the LDL:HDL ratio.

The other carbohydrate sources in Core GROW, sweet potato and quinoa, also have growing bodies of data to support their role as “health foods.”

Quinoa is naturally gluten-free, contains all the essential amino acids needed for bodily function, has more than double the fiber mg-for-mg as most grains, and has been shown in clinical trials to assist in the healthy management of triglycerides, LDL, and glucose. These benefits are in addition to quinoa’s well-established micro-nutrient, vitamin, and mineral profile: the plant contains high levels of bioactive flavonoids, antioxidants, in addition to high levels of iron, magnesium, and vitamin B-2.

Sweet potato, like quinoa, is also gluten-free. The plant contains more than 100% of the daily-recommended value of vitamin A, and is also high in vitamins B5 and B6, niacin and riboflavin. Sweet potato is also a rich source of antioxidants.

In total, the carbohydrates found in the BRO-Carb blend are useful for not only their caloric value, but maybe more importantly, their roles as well-established “health foods.”

Cold-Processed Undenatured Whey Protein Concentrate

When you vigorously train or exert yourself, a process called protein degradation (the breakdown of muscle protein) begins so that the body can fuel itself, and a process called muscle protein synthesis (the creation of muscle protein) slows down. Think of this like shutting off your engine (protein synthesis), in order to fuel your car (muscle protein breakdown). As this entire process plays out, the available pool of amino acids in skeletal muscle depletes, as they too are drawn in and broken down in the natural, catabolic process during exercise.

While this situation is quite adequate during a training session, it’s precisely the opposite of what we want afterwards. At that point, we want the available pool of amino acids to increase, protein degradation to slow or stop, and muscle protein synthesis to increase. Enter protein supplements. Protein powders are a quick, convenient way to rapidly increase the available pool of amino acids in skeletal muscle.

However, not all proteins are created equal when assessed within the matrix of molecular triggers, enzymes, and amino acids that constitute skeletal muscle protein synthesis. Low quality blends, fillers, masking agents, and the like reduce the net protein content of many protein products, ultimately reducing lean muscle impact.

A quality protein supplement not only contains a high amount of protein, but the protein sources from which it draws need to be themselves high quality – and the benefit a particular protein source has can be assessed by analyzing its amino acid profile. Human skeletal muscle makes the most use out of a few, particular amino acids (the BCAAs among them), and so a quality protein needs to have an amino acid profile that is optimal for this context.

We chose the protein blend for Core GROW with optimization in mind. Our cold-processed undenatured whey protein concentrate has a robust and complete amino acid profile that has been shown in research to increase nitrogen retention, lean muscle impact, and satiating ability (the feeling of fullness).

PHAT Blend:

Like our BRO-Carb Blend, our PHAT Blend is whole-food derived in order to deliver fats that not only provides calories, but are additionally healthy on a more substantive level. We deliver this through the use of coconut oil powder and avocado powder as the primary ingredients, with the addition of MCT oil powder.

Coconut oil is incredibly high in a specific form of saturated fatty acids known as medium-chain triglycerides, or MCTs – the oil from which is the final ingredient in our fat blend. While saturated fatty acids were typically demonized in both the scientific and popular literature, recent research has revealed this characterization as false. Saturated acids, and particularly MCTs, have been demonstrated as conferring various metabolic benefits when eaten in substantial enough servings.

Medium chain triglycerides are a form of fat with 6-12 carbon fatty acid esters, a chemical structure that allows them to effectively bypass gastric uptake for transport directly to the liver for oxidation. Their unusual chemical structure and metabolic process has resulted in MCTs being a focus for a wide range of therapeutic and exercise supplement uses.

In the context of exercise science, recent research has shown that MCTs significantly (up to 65%) increase resting energy expenditure, along with dose-dependently reducing fatty acid deposition in adipose tissue. These results suggest that MCTs are effectively increasing the body’s metabolic response to food intake.

Avocado, on the other hand, is composed principally of monounsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid. Like MCTs, oleic acid has been positively associated with promoting the maintenance of healthy weight in populations whose diet contains significant amounts of oleic acid.

Digestive Enzyme Blend, Antioxidants, and Spectra™

One can easily make the argument that dietary enzymes – and in particular, digestive enzymes – are the most consistently underrated and overlooked component to a supplementation regimen. These powerful little protein structures influence or outright control a vast, complex network of bodily functions. In a fitness-specific context, digestive enzymes play an absolutely crucial role in the breaking down of dietary carbohydrates, fats, and proteins into their constitutive parts, and therefore allow your body to use them in various processes (glycogenesis, protein synthesis, etc).

Despite their critical function, many supplement companies overlook the necessity of digestive enzymes and do not include sufficient levels (and kinds) of enzymes in their products. For a whey product, in particular – a compound that requires significant digestion and breakdown – this is madness.

As usual, we take a much more comprehensive, clinical approach than the average. In Core GROW, we have included a digestive enzyme blend comprised by five of the most clinically-researched, critical function enzymes available. We have chosen them strategically and synergistically, ensuring they fulfill multiple functions, including, though not limited to: aiding in the breakdown of milk proteins and sugars, supporting healthy carbohydrate and fat metabolism and breakdown, and assisting in the metabolism of carbohydrates and starch.

In addition to the specific focus on digestion in GROW, we have added in a potent antioxidant in the form of pomegranate powder. Emerging data has begun to suggest that pomegranate, long a staple of tropical diets, has potent free-radical scavenging ability – scientific parlance for the ability to reduce damage from unchecked oxidation. In both cell cultures and animal models – the gold-standards for anti-oxidant assessment – pomegranate has demonstrated one of the highest per-gram, standardized ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) values on record. These results suggest that even small amounts of pomegranates, its peels, and its powder (which is derived from its fruit and peels) may have beneficial effects in the reduction of harmful oxygen species.    

Finally, we added 100mg of Spectra Greens™, a dietary supplement to support detoxification functions. Spectra is a combination of nutrient rich vegetables, fruits, herbs, herbal extracts, Chlorella, Soy Lecithin, Royal Jelly, Bee Pollen, enzymes and probiotic cultures designed to support your bodys ability to cleanse, detoxify and rejuvenate.

References:

For references, see below file;

Core Nutritionals: Fury References