Someone sent me a study proving one of the ingredients in Kino Gains doesn’t work.
He was right.
The study is from 2012 and is titled: “Creatine but not betaine supplementation increases muscle phosphorylcreatine content and strength performance.”
But he’s missing a key part of the study.
Quote: “Volunteers were instructed to refrain from any exercise training program throughout the study.”
If you’re sedentary, Betaine probably isn’t doing much for you.
It works by amplifying your body’s response to training.
Betaine is trimethylglycine that has three jobs.
First, it’s a methyl donor: It donates methyl groups that kick off the repair and rebuilding process after training. That’s the same pathway that drives protein synthesis.
Second, it’s an osmolyte: It pulls water directly into the muscle cell and stabilizes it under the stress of heavy training.
Third, it improves your testosterone-to-cortisol ratio after training: Less cortisol eating into your T levels. More anabolic environment every time you leave the gym.
Here’s the thing all three of these have in common.
They need a training stimulus to matter.
Betaine doesn’t create the signal.
Sit on a couch for twelve weeks, and it’s an expensive amino acid derivative.
Train hard, and it’s working every session.
There’s also a reason I recommend stacking this with Mojo.
Lower cortisol after training means a faster shift into recovery.
A better testosterone-to-cortisol ratio means a more anabolic environment every time you leave the gym.
Mojo raises your free testosterone directly. Betaine lowers post-exercise cortisol, the hormone that eats into your testosterone every time you train hard.
Together they’re building the most anabolic environment your body can naturally achieve.
It also protects the muscle you already have.
One of the less talked about benefits of Betaine is what it does when you’re in a deficit.
Research shows it works against the inflammatory signals that cause muscle breakdown, helping you hold onto muscle while you’re getting lean.
Most guys lose muscle in the process of cutting.
Betaine makes that significantly less likely.
Kino Gains has Betaine paired with Creatine HCL.
- Creatine HCL loads into the muscle cell without spillover, adding fullness and strength without the water retention and bloat that monohydrate causes.
- Betaine takes those harder sessions and builds real tissue from them while keeping cortisol in check and protecting what you’ve already built.
That’s the combination. Fuller muscles fast, real tissue built over time, and cortisol managed so none of it gets undone.
Talk soon,
Greg O’Gallagher