Attention Sherdoggers: MMACoach is actually Coach D (he was banned under that handle). His reputation in this forum is poor, you'll learn why if you stick around long enough. But the reason for this flame is that he has a chip on his shoulder because I destroyed him in an argument over fish oil pills:
http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showth...=271470&page=1
Will Brink is bodybuilding magazine consultant, the vanguard of the supplement industry fraud racket, but I appreciate him as an author (the few articles of his I've read, this now being one). This is a great read, and if he had posted this first, I wouldn't have troubled myself to give you guys the most concise, practical primer I could. But none of this is new to me.
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"Whey Protein Concentrate: The lowest grade. Think of it like crude oil."
That is pretty ingnorant.
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No it isn't. You don't read carefully, Coach D. Clearly you thought I was using this definition of the word "grade": "5.a. In things: A degree of comparative quality or value" when I was actually invoking this usage: "3. A step or stage in a process." The only way to determine the particular usage of a word in any sentence is context. I tried to tip you off to this with my analogy of concentrate as crude oil and isolate as gasoline, but you still failed to understand me. The analogy stands.
Debating the overally quality of lower-grade/undenatured versus higher-grade/denatured was something I chose to spare the forum. Otherwise, I would have discussed ion exchange isolate versus cold filtration isolate (which retains more natural characteristics, but tends to be 5-7% lower in protein per gram basis).
But why would someone buy concentrate that is often 80% protein per gram when they could get Cross Microfiltration Isolate that will be 93-95% protein and will hold the "retention of important subfractions, extremely low fat and lactose contents, with virtually no undenatured proteins." Did you even read the article YOU posted?
Why would they buy WPC? It has only one upside, and that is cost. I said that.
Please read more slowly.