Alot of heavy bulkers put sugar into their protein shake... its proven that sugar enters the system fast as hell, and whatever is in the stomach with it also gets digested faster. Cottage cheese also digests slower and can 'drip' into your system or trickle if you'd rather. Muscle Milk only has around 6G of sugar per out of 75Gs of product total (2 scoops), abit more will MAKE it enter your system faster its glucose, and we all know that thats energy that is draged RIGHT to the muscles off the bat... now if you've got protein getting drag'd along with it its simply faster. You can use other methods to get protein into your system faster... your body trying to gain protein from meat so forth is abit slower - but even once a protein shake is in your system, sugar speeds up the process - so I'm told.

Either way worry about taking something before bed, very imporant. Muscle Milk also has instructions on the back of it "PRIOR TO BEDTIME"... check out bodybuilding.com if your worried about the sugar deal, I'm not saying add mounds and mounds of sugar... I don't do it myself but alot of fellas that weigth over 220lbs of muscle do, they must do it for some reason...

Peace.