Hello, welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. I'm Patrick Cummings. Here as always with

E.C. Sinkowski. Every week, we aim to simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health, and

fitness. We thank you for tuning into the show this week. Hello, E.C., how are you?

Hey, good. How are you doing? I'm great. This week, we're going to look into the topic of

anabolic resistance and the factors

that may contribute to losing muscle mass as we age before we jump into that conversation. Just a

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straightforward approach to nutritional sanity that they've ever tried. Okay, you see,

anabolic resistance is a phrase in which I have no real understanding of where to even begin.

So let's begin there. What does that even mean? And perhaps why does it matter? Why are we talking about it?

Yeah. So, anabolic resistance is the blunting of the muscle protein synthesis response.

Now, we've talked a lot about muscle protein synthesis or MPS, but there are so many nutrition

questions that are related to this phenomenon, such as,

when should I be eating my protein? How much protein should I be eating every time I eat my protein?

What type of protein is best? What are my protein needs throughout life?

So we do end up talking a lot about MPS because it's related to a lot of concerns people have

with nutrition and specifically their protein intake.

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