Animal Pak Review
By Razvan Radu, Senior Writer, Susanne Blake, MS, RDN (expert review)
Susanne Blake is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with expertise in eating disorders, food reactions, & whole foods nutrition. She has worked with children and families, with elders and retirement communities, and has provided nutrition services to detention facilities, schools and recovery programs. Her media expertise is extensive and has included live television, as well as print publications.
Animal Pak is presented a dietary remedy which was developed particularly for bodybuilders in order to improve their physical resistance and provide optimal levels of their regular nutritional consumption. It was put out on the nutritional supplementation area on 8th of August, 1983 by a business named Universal Nutrition.
The company was founded in 1977, thus unlike most it has more than thirty years of experience in the nutritional field. On a general perspective, they state that their reliability is linked to their good quality manufacture processes, determination to offer the client proper nutritive support and perseverance in studying ingredients that will positively affect their formulas. Furthermore, they claim that all of their workers try to give one hundred percent in order to achieve the best client satisfaction. However, their claims haven’t been researched by the Food and Drug Administration.
Animal Pak is advertised as containing some performance optimizers such as carnitine, L-arginine, and ALA which are widely known for their qualities related to muscular recovery, endurance, and strength. The reason why this supplement was designed relies on people’s necessity who are either going through intensive training sessions or have begun bodybuilding and are not accommodated to potential muscular loss that can appear when the exercising has been disrupted or there are days in which the program can’t be properly followed.
Animal Pak Ingredients
Animal Pak contains the following ingredients: Vitamins A, C, D, E, B6, B12, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Folic, Aspartic, Glutamine and Pantothenic Acids, Calcium, Biotin, Phosphorus, Iodine, Magnesium, Zinc, Selenium, Copper, Manganese, Chromium, Potassium, Glutamine, Glycine, Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Proline, Serine, Theorine, Tryptophan, Tyrosine, Valine, Carnitine, Choline, Eleuthero, Hawthorne, Inositol, Milk Thistle, Oriental Ginseng, Para-Aminobenzoic acid, Pyridoxine, ALA, Citrus Bioflavonoids, CoQ10, Grapeseed, Lutein, Lycopene, Pine Bark, Bromelain, Cystine, Alanine, Inulin, Lipase, Pancreatin, Papain, and VegPeptase.
Product Features
On a general level, Animal Pak can be viewed as an “all-but-the-kitchen-sink” approach that contains a series of ingredients which can be distributed in five main categories that are amino acids, vitamin and mineral complex, performance optimizers, bone support, and digestive enzymes. It is a product mainly suggested for body-builders as well as amateur sportive.
Within the components of Animal Pak there are bioflavonoids that are obtained due to citrus fruits. As research points out, these feature a high amount of phytonutrients and represent a good Vitamin C source. Hence, they are presented as offering a good protection against the damage done in the organism because of free radicals. Furthermore, their qualities are also related to blood flow improvement and capillary permeability. This permeability is important because due to it, organ tissues are better oxygenated, thus venous backup, edema, and swelling are generally minimized as a result. Therefore, they also play an important in normalizing the blood pressure as well as improving respiratory processes.
There was in fact a study in 1955, conducted by Dr. Biskind who offered bioflavonoids to some individuals who had certain acute respiratory infections like acute follicular tonsillitis, the common cold, and influenza, and the responses appeared as generally beneficial. On its consumption, there were few side effects that appeared and these were hives, breathing difficulties, and swellings.
Advantages
- No important Animal Pak side effect was reported so far on the usage of this product, either on long or short-term
- Included ingredients were generally researched through some clinical studies where proved beneficial results
- The company is one of the oldest on the nutritional field to deliver body-building supplements
Disadvantages
- There are no free samples
- No information on whether it’s safe for female utilization in times of pregnancy of lactating
- Some allergic reactions may appear in people who are hypersensitive due to it being an “all-but-the-kitchen” sink approach
Conclusion
All in all, Animal Pak is an “all-but-the-kitchen-sink” approach which contains a multitude of components varying from vitamins and minerals, to amino-acids and digestive enzymes. The purpose behind its design was to provide body-builders and amateur as well as professional sportsmen an improved nutritional percentage on a daily basis so they can enhance muscular mass, strength, and endurance. It is important that its usage is taken seriously, and if a person suffers from known allergies to any of the product’s ingredients, a medical consult should be done before the beginning of the treatment. However, no serious side effects have been noticed so far.
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I do lift weights but I use these more as a general multivitamin. Yes it’s probably overkill, but I can honestly say that in the years I’ve used it, I’ve not gotten sick as often or as severely.
I’m a lifelong heavy lifter and Animal Pak fills every last nutritional hole I can think of!