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UPDATE – Use this code to get a 5% discount from the Myprotein site – MP58503

Hey everyone,

I’ve had a couple of people ask why I’ve decided to put these Myprotein UK banners on my site so I thought I’d explain.

I’ve used their stuff in the past and have always thought the ingredients and the quality of their products to be a high standard.

Like all young guys, it was forced upon us that we needed to take a protein shake within 30mins of training. However somewhere along the line, I started noticing that the protein brand I was purchasing from changed their ingredients because it started to smell like horse urine, or something like that. Actually it was more like a chemical smell 

Usually these products are shipped over from America, I stopped taking them in 2001-2002 and its only recently in 2010 that they discovered some protein powders in America contained traces of arsenic, cadmium, which I’m told were used to make batteries? Lead and Mercury was also found and bunch of others….YUMMY right?? (Article here)

So fast forward to today, being a personal trainer with an interest in Nutrition and its effects.

Supplements and why I use them -

I’m a big believer in just eating real food, the big problem with supplement companies is that they obviously have to promote their brands and they come out with these diet templates where it looks something like this….

There’s alot of products in their sample meal plan and they do it to sell their products. I’m sure you clever readers know it’s marketing ploy, it’s just best to eat real food.

So here is the list of supplements I use (when I can remember) -

BCAA – Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs) are Leucine, Isoleucine and Valine. They are considered to be essential amino acids because humans could not survive unless they were present in their diet.
I mainly use this product to maintain muscle mass, conventional diets tend to break down muscle tissue and lower the metabolism.

Whey Protein Isolate -

I actually bought this supplement as a test, Whey Protein products are made as the by product of cheese and being mildly lactose intolerant (strangely it didn’t affect me when I was younger) I found that I wasn’t able to take the protein shakes like I could before.
This was another reason I stopped, however this whey protein isolate contained little lactose as the filtration system is able to separate the lactose, carbs, and fats.
If you do have lactose problems, use a whey protein isolate, I’d recommend the Whey Protein Isolate. Click on the picture above to buy the product, it does come in different flavours, haven’t tried the zest flavours.

Digestimax -

I use this product as a digestive aid.
DigestiMax is a potent blend of ingredients designed to support healthy digestive function and improve the over all health of your digestive system. The blend of ingredients have been combined to help your body break down protein, carbohydrates and fats in order to fully utilise these valuable nutrients as part of a healthy diet.

One of the key ingredients is Betaine (click to read more)

To boost the overall health and effectiveness of your digestive system Betaine is included, which helps your body produce the digestive acids responsible for breaking down food. This is further enhanced by the presence of Pancreatin which provides the digestive enzymes that help breakdown macronutrients; protease (protein digesting), amylase (carbohydrate digesting), and lipase (fat digesting) enzymes.


I’m not really taking note about how I feel after taking this product, as again it’s more to do with the foods you eat and whether they’re causing you digestive stress. Don’t eat a McDonalds and expect this digestive aid to work miracles!
However, I do feel that it’s important supplement as some people can’t produce enough of the stomach acid to kill off any bacteria and end up getting gastrointestinal problems that way.

So far these are the only supplements I really take, the digestimax I’ve been taking regularly and the other supplements only as and when needed.

If you are looking to supplement, clean up the diet first. Ideally you want to reduce inflammation/digestive stress as much as possible i.e. food intolerances to gluten/lactose etc
Good luck.

UPDATE – Use this code to get a 5% discount from the Myprotein site – MP58503