A recently published study found that higher protein

after exercise translates into increased muscle protein synthesis.

In today's show we're going to dive into these details from a fascinating new study

titled The Anabolic Response to protein ingestion during recovery

from exercise has no upper limit in magnitude and duration in vivo in humans.

This was published recently in the journal Cell Reports Medicine.

Here is the graphical abstract abstract it's a really interesting

article because hitherto the old paradigm was that if you have more protein say more than

40 grams of protein it's really futile it doesn't really matter because

those amino acids from the protein sources will become oxidized meaning they

will not contribute to increased muscle protein synthesis in the post exercise window but this new study

finds that the essential amino acids like phenylalanine, methionine, lusine, isolucine, and valine

do not become oxidized even after having 100 grams of protein.

So what was unique about this study is they had young subjects undergo a resistance training session

and they randomize them to three different groups, either

having no protein in the post exercise window or 25 grams of protein in an exercise window or 100 grams

of protein.

And so what was unique about this study is they not only did

muscle biopsies in the post exercise window, but they drew blood in the 12 hour

window after exercise and found that the amino acids, even in the group that had

100 grams of protein in the post exercise

window those amino acids did not become oxidized and so again that is the old

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