Muscle Matrix

- A proprietary blend of essential amino acids and arginine to build muscle mass for physical performance and to help prevent muscle wasting during surgical recovery, bed rest and natural aging.
Muscle Matrix from Cyto-Matrix provides nutritional support to help preserve and maximize lean muscle mass during moderate and vigorous activity, unintentional loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength, and sedentary circumstances.
Muscles are in a constant state of cellular turnover known as catabolism and anabolism, where old and damaged muscle fibers are broken down and replaced with new, healthy fibers. A number of factors influence these processes, but perhaps the two most important are amino acid availability and exercise, or lack thereof.
Muscle performs many important physiological functions beyond supporting physical movement, including metabolism and energy storage. Loss of lean muscle mass may be a predictor of health outcomes and is strongly associated with increased risk of osteoporosis, falls and fractures, and increased overall risk of mortality. With all of this in mind, it is essential to preserve muscle mass and prevent muscle loss as we age.
Muscle Matrix includes a patented blend of arginine and all nine essential amino acids (EAAs). EAAs are unique from other amino acids in that the human body cannot synthesize them and therefore must be consumed through dietary means. An adequate amount of EAA in a specific ratio is necessary to match or exceed the rate of protein synthesis relative to the rate of protein degradation. On the contrary, if the body does not receive enough EAA, it must recover the essential elements needed from the blood, muscles or organs. Studies confirm that adding an appropriate EAA blend can provide positive net muscle balance both in a rested state and, to a greater extent, when combined with exercise
The patented amino acid blend contained in Muscle Matrix is ​​known as Reginator®, and it is backed by decades of clinical research to support its effectiveness in building and maintaining muscle mass. Research supports the ability of this specialized, low-dose amino blend to help increase muscle synthesis by twice the capacity of whey protein (often referred to as the gold standard of muscle anabolism). This application is certainly intriguing in the physical performance and athletic space, but Reginator® also has strong application in the context of medicine. Reginator® has been shown to prevent and reverse muscle loss in bedridden people. Specifically, patients recovering from hip or knee surgery showed an 800% increase in strength, measured by maximal voluntary contraction, after 8 weeks of supplementation, compared to patients who were bedridden only. This improvement in strength only increased when exercise was added to the therapeutic intervention.
Outside of surgical recovery and physical performance, Muscle Matrix may even be beneficial in the context of a healthy aging population. It is well known that older adults consume less food, likely due to a combination of factors such as decreased metabolic rate, decreased taste and smell, increased satiety, changes in digestive enzymes, or cognitive impairments. This only compounds the fact that older adults have a 28% reduced ability to synthesize protein and skeletal muscle begins to decline naturally from the age of 45. All of this is to say that older adults are an ideal target population for amino acid supplementation, with Reginator® maintaining muscle strength even in the absence of exercise.