NOW Foods Sports Nutrition, Amino-9 Essentials™ Powder, Enhanced Protein Synthesis, Amino Acids, 330-Grams

Amazing for poor gut absorbtion/nutrition deficiency
I’m a little different than most for this, because I take amino acids as I’m missing my colon and have an ileostomy bag. My food goes through fast and I was starting to have things that were pointing to a nutritional deficiency, along with flat out already being in pretty poor health for a bunch of reasons. Anyway, we decided to give amino acids a try, seeing that if I couldn’t break down the protein I ate in time, maybe I wasn’t getting my essential amino acids.First, this stuff is rancid gross tasting. Totally vile. Like licking pennies dipped in dust and sprinkled with bleach. My routine is a heaping tablespoon into about 8oz of juice like a string cherry/cranberry/grape juice and then adding a good heart squeeze of Mio drops or the like. It still will taste soured and sorta gross, but it’s no longer undrinkable.For me, the results are so worth it. I stopped losing mass from my legs, the daily headaches stopped, I no longer was constantly freezing. My blood work started to improve, and I started having more and more energy to function. I started feeling good, enough to actually start doing more activity. My doctor and I are very, very pleased.This particular brand is the highest listed dose of any amino acid supplement with no “extras” that I can find. Most don’t label the amounts, or they add caffiene. I’ve run out before for a week, and the cruddy feelings – cold, tired and headachy) started coming back. I felt better within a couple days after starting back on it. I fo through about 1 bottle per month.I really think that folks with altered guts should talk with their doctor about trying this, especially if they have constant tiredness, chills and headaches. My doctor and I are very pleased with the results I’ve had.

This product has no fake-tasting flavors or sweeteners.
I like this product because it has no flavoring or sweeteners. Although the bottle indicates it should be added to juices, milk or milk substitutes (like almond or rice milk) because it is somewhat bitter, I tasted the powders itself and didn’t find that it had much flavor of its own and certainly nothing unpleasant. This is good, and exactly what I want, because it means I can mix it with anything and have no flavors or sweeteners in the product that I don’t like or that taste bad with whatever liquid I’m mixing it in.Most other essential amino acid powders I’ve looked at – including the one I get from my nutritionist – have some combination of flavors like citrus and berry, some of which I totally dislike the flavors of. And as soon as they try to use fruit flavors, that requires the product to have sweeteners. In an attempt to use something natural, they all tend to use Stevia which has the most awful taste. To my taste buds, Stevia is way worse tasting than any of the artificial sweeteners. So I’m glad this product doesn’t have any of that.The only reason I didn’t give this product five-stars is because the powder doesn’t want to mix will with water or other liquids. No matter how well I stir it, the powder lumps up and doesn’t dissolve. But I found this to be true with other amino powders as well, so I presume this is the nature of amino acids themselves.

Muy bueno, amargo pero se entiende por ser aminoácidos