You know, there's some people who are vocal proponents that really it's about protein balance, not energy balance for putting on muscle mass.

And I think that's probably true when you're pretty novice and you have a very low quote unquote threshold to respond to

training adaptations but when you start to look at some of the mechanisms where if you're in

an acute energy deficit there is a lowering of muscle protein synthesis so certainly muscle protein

synthesis is the driver and what drives muscle protein synthesis is protein.

But there's a lot of other mechanisms, like related to AMP kinase,

and being in a deficit that end up short-circuiting the effect of protein. Hello and welcome. You are listening to episode 277 of Sigma Nutrition Radio. And as always, I am your host, Danny Lennon. Thank you so much for

taking the time to listen into the podcast today. Whether it's your first time listening,

then welcome. And if you were a long time listener returning, then thank you for your continued

support. It's awesome to see that the podcast continues to provide you with interesting

and informative conversations, which I'm pretty certain is going to continue with today's

episode. A quick mention and thank you to everyone who's been posting feedback in relation to

our last episode with Dr. Nick Gant. Lots of great feedback. So thank you for everyone who has listened

and sent me messages or posted it to social or left any type of review in relation to listening

to that. So thank you. That's awesome to see. And as I said, we're hopefully going to continue

that theme today because I'm going to be talking

to another Auckland-based researcher, but this time in the form of Dr. Eric Helms, who is a research

fellow at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, of course, where his work is

primarily focused on training and nutrition interventions that could have implications

for bodybuilders, powerlifters, and other strength athletes and trainees.

Erica has published many peer-reviewed publications at this point, and he's currently involved

a number of ongoing research projects and collaborations that are particularly exciting.

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