MuscleMeds Carnivor: Bioengineered Beef Protein Isolate

Webster's dictionary defines the word 'carnivore' as 'meat eater' (Latin carne meaning 'flesh' and vorare meaning 'to devour'). A carnivore is an animal that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of vertebrate animal tissue. If anyone has ever spent time with Kai Greene, they quickly learn that he eats a lot of steak! Many people do not know this, but Kai used to eat mainly fish, chicken, and eggs before he turned pro. Kai has eaten 50 egg whites per day at various times in his career, going back to his teens when he won his first competition. Anyone who knew Kai back in the day knew he would down a dozen chicken breasts on a daily basis. His protein intake could be as high as 850 grams a day.

Despite his massive protein intake, his contest prep-coach Oscar Ardon didn't feel that he had the mass his frame could support. Oscar wanted Kai to become a mass monster so he started adding more steak and red meat to Kai's diet to put on more mass. Kai noticed that the more beef he ate, the bigger and stronger he became. It was this change in his diet that helped catapult Kai's career and gained him an IFBB pro card in 2004.

At one point, Kai was eating six to nine pounds of steak a day! Seeing the gains he made by eating beef, he noticed some problems he was having digesting huge amounts of bovine protein- mainly, bloating and a concern for all the high cholesterol and saturated fats.

With his new alliance with the supplement company MuscleMeds, Kai approached the scientists at MuscleMeds to create a protein powder that was loaded with beef protein, yet without the saturated fat and cholesterol. MuscleMeds researchers designed CARNIVOR specifically for Kai Greene, to be the world's first beef isolate protein powder. The results were so incredible that MuscleMeds decided to release it to the general public.

Beef: The King of Proteins!

Beef is the king of muscle-building! For example, four ounces of lean roast beef yields about 22 grams of complete protein. In addition, beef contains high concentrations of creatine, which is a muscular fuel necessary for sustained contractions and growth. And when compared to chicken, beef has tremendously higher quantities of carnitine and BCAAs.

Other nutrients found in high concentrations in red meat include potassium (which is important for GH and IGF-1 production), alanine (which spares muscles from breaking down for energy during workouts), iron (critical for blood building) and zinc (necessary for protein synthesis).

And don't forget that red meat is a rich source of B-vitamins, including B-6 (a requirement for proper recovery) and B-12 (essential for production of red blood cells and to metabolize byproducts of BCAAs for additional energy). Additionally, the consumption of red meat has an impact on increasing circulating IGF-1 levels.¹

The problem with beef, if you're consuming lots of it, is that it's expensive and can have some adverse risks on cardiovascular health. CARNIVOR is the first protein supplement that has all the anabolic effects of beef without the expensive cost and unwanted health side effects.

CARNIVOR's Bioengineered Beef Protein Isolate

Using new advanced extraction, clarification, hydrolysis and isolation technologies, CARNIVOR's Bioengineered Beef Protein Isolate delivers the muscle-building power of beef with higher amino acid levels than all other protein sources used in supplements including whey, soy, milk and egg. CARNIVOR Beef Protein Isolate is even 350 percent more concentrated in anabolic muscle-building aminos than a prime sirloin steak! And it has no fat or cholesterol!

Anabolic Nitrogen Retention Technology (ANRT) Recycles Aminos and Minimizes Ammonia: ANRT is a major muscle-building breakthrough in protein supplementation. While protein is critical for muscle growth, paradoxically, consuming more protein can sometimes actually decrease performance and muscle growth if nitrogenous waste products like ammonia are not recycled back into anabolic tissue-building pathways or otherwise neutralized. ANRT is specially designed to allow the recycling of aminos back toward the muscle-building pathway and prevents the buildup of debilitating toxic scavengers such as ammonia. ANRT nitrogen-retention factors contained in Carnivor include: GKG (Glutamine-alpha-ketoglutarate), OKG (Ornithine-alpha-ketoglutarate), AKG (alpha-ketoglutarate) and KIC (alpha-ketoisocaproate).

CARNIVOR is the only protein with this technology that is capable of recycling aminos back into the anabolic muscle-building pathways for increased nitrogen retention and improved muscle growth and performance.

20 Times the Creatine Content of Steak

One of the benefits of eating beef is its naturally high creatine content.² Beef is one of the best natural sources of creatine. To push the anabolic activation and cell volumizing effects of creatine even greater, each serving of CARNIVOR supplies 20 times more creatine than steak to saturate your muscles for explosive strength and growth.

Added BCAA for Increased Anabolic and Anti-Catabolic Effects: To further boost the anabolic muscle-building action of CARNIVOR, additional Branched Chain Amino Acids are added to the purified Beef Protein Isolate. The enhanced BCAA levels promote a positive nitrogen balance, increase protein synthesis, decrease catabolism, improve workout performance and reduce muscle fatigue.^3,4

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3. Blomstrand E, Eliasson J, Karlsson HK, Köhnke R. Branched-chain amino acids activate key enzymes in protein synthesis after physical exercise. J Nutr, 2006 Jan;136(1 Suppl):269S-73S. Review.

4. Rennie MJ, Bohé J, Smith K, Wackerhage H, Greenhaff P. Branched-chain amino acids as fuels and anabolic signals in human muscle. J Nutr, 2006 Jan;136(1 Suppl):264S-8S. Review.