Sports & Nutrition

Although sports nutrition drinks are stepping out beyond the world of athletes, fitness enthusiastic still rely on them for hydration, increased endurance, muscle recovery and more. Sustamine, a dipeptide combining two amino acids, L-glutamine and L-alanine, already has some research backing its ability to improve post-exercise recovery via protecting muscles from post-workout protein degradation. Now a new study paired the ingredient with a commercially available sports drink to examine time to exhaustion and physiological measures during prolonged endurance exercise.