Ingredients
Each Gnar Cap has a special mixture of the key amino acids and Puncture Vine so that your body can fully recover after surfing. Below you’ll find some epic details on why the ingredients in Gnar Caps are so key to your rip-factor in and outside the water. Check it out.
L-Glutamine: This is the most prevalent amino acid in muscle tissue. This stuff increases the absorption of nutrients and becomes “brain jet fuel” in the form of glutamic acid. Our white blood cells also use Glutamine [read: great for our immune system functions]. Oh, it is also said to help reduce your cravings for booze and sugars. That’s pretty sweet too.
Ornithine Alphaketoglutarate: We just like to call this little something something “OKG”. This stuff is believed to enhance the body’s release of muscle-building hormones: Growth hormone and Insulin. One of the coolest things about OKG is that it helps prevent the breakdown of muscle while increasing muscle growth. Tell us that’s not going to make you flash a shaka!
L-Glysine: The body uses this stuff to build proteins. Though completely unrelated to surfing, scientists say that Glycine may play a role in maintaining the health of the prostate. Get that brown eye checked, homie!
Chromium GTF: This trace mineral plays a role in regulating blood sugar levels.
L-Ornithine: Some experts have claimed that L-Ornithine promotes muscle-building activity in the body. We think that does not suck.
L-Lysine: Lysine timulates growth hormone release. This essential amino acid helps the body effectively utilize fatty acids for energy production. An important tidbit, we thought, is that Lysine can’t be made by your body and must be supplied by your diet or supplements like Gnar Caps. For the ladies out there tuning in, this stuff helps the body conserve and absorb calcium. You may not break a bone next time you get drilled.
TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS
This is derived from the herb Tribulus Terrestris AKA Puncture Vine. Tribulus is primarily found in parts of Eastern Europe, India and Africa, where it has been used for hundreds of years as a medical herb for the treatment of muscle strength, infertility, impotence, liver, kidney, and heart problems. The Chemical Pharmaceutical Institute in Sofia Bulgaria has discovered that Tribulus raises testosterone production in guys and in ladies. Tribulus was also found to be great for people with high cholesterol (because nobody wants to be deep in the pit with high cholesterol) because it facilitates bile flow and breakdown of fats in the liver. You know what this means. This means you’ll be dropping a duece on the regular and eliminate toxins from your over-boozed liver. Overall studies have concluded that there are no known side effects from this herb when you use it as a supplement. That means you are going to shred like you’ve never shredded before.
PHOSPHATIDYL SERINE
Phosphatidyl Serine plays an important role in maintaining the integrity of brain cell membranes. This may prevent you from bailing when you are out paddling. By protecting the integrity of your brain cell membranes, Phosphatidyl Serine facilitates the efficient transport of energy-producing nutrients into cells, thus enhancing brain cell energy metabolism. So far, eleven double blind studies have been completed using Phosphatidyl Serine in the treatment of age-related cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease, and depression. Sounds pretty deep, huh? But, not as deep as the barrel you’ll be charging after you take some Gnar Caps.
PHOSPHATIDYL CHOLINE
Phosphatidyl Choline is said to improve your motor skills. That’s got to improve your riding. Here’s why: This stuff is a main ingredient of Lecithin, and included in Super HGH is needed for proper mental functioning and fat breakdown. A study reported in Psychological Reports 1986 Feb Vol 58 (1) 207-217 suggested that Phosphatidyl Choline supplementation improved neuro-physiological and intellectual functioning as well as general motor- skill improvements.
