Five Minute Answers: Vegan Muscle Growth, Food Diversity, Blue Light Glasses, & More
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We're answering your questions about the impact of various diets on muscle growth, the role of inflammation in exercise recovery, and the effectiveness of blue light glasses.
You'll gain insights into how vegan and omnivore diets compare in terms of muscle protein synthesis, and you'll learn about the potential trade-offs of using NSAIDs for pain management.
After you listen, you'll understand that the optimal approach to nutrition and recovery doesn't rely on strict rules, but rather on achieving balance and meeting your individual needs.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
The Consistency Project aims to simplify nutrition, health, and well-being by breaking down the concepts and actions we can all take to live fuller, more functional lives.
ABOUT US
📍 EC Synkowski is a Certified Nutrition Specialist® (CNS), a Licensed-Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN), and Certified CrossFit Level 4 Coach (CF-L4). She's the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition and the creator of the #800gChallenge®. Find her on social media.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, kid's book writer, and podcaster. Find him on social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Team, if you haven't yet, head on over to 3Pillers Method.com to start a five-day free trial on my app. This is where you can go through the entire Three Pillars Method process to develop your own personalized nutrition plan for those weight, health, and fitness goals. That's 3Pillers Method.com, and the link is in the show notes. Let's get into the show. Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. My name is Patrick Cummings. As always, I'm here with E.C. Sinkowski. Every week on the show, we aim to simplify the science of nutrition, health, and fitness, cutting through the noise to focus on the principles and practices that will help you perform better, feel better, and of course, live better. Thank you so very much for tuning into the show. Hello and how are |
| 0:38.4 | you EC? Wonderful. How are you doing? I'm great. I'm doing great. We are going to do some listener |
| 0:44.1 | questions this time around. Return to your email inbox to get some good stuff. We're talking about |
| 0:49.7 | whether vegan and omnivore diets impact muscle protein synthesis differently, how Ns |
| 0:56.0 | affect muscle growth and recovery during resistance training can eating the same foods every |
| 1:00.4 | day reduce their nutritional effectiveness. |
| 1:03.3 | We've got a few more in there. |
| 1:05.1 | I always like to ask this before we kick into these episodes, what's the best way for folks |
| 1:09.0 | for listeners out there to get a question into the queue, so perhaps we can get them into a future episodes. |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.0 | Optimize me, nutrition.com slash email is where to sign up for my email list. |
| 1:22.1 | And then just click reply to any of the emails I send out, which is generally weekly-ish. |
| 1:27.4 | Sometimes it's hit a little bit of a lull there. |
| 1:30.2 | Generally weekly-ish. That's commitment right there. That's committal. I'm committed. And, |
| 1:36.3 | but yeah, hit reply to anything I send out and it gets in the queue. And that definitely is easier |
| 1:40.5 | than Instagram. I certainly get a lot of content sent my way on social media, but at least with email, |
| 1:46.1 | there's like a folder and a tagging system. |
| 1:48.3 | And yeah, that's a question. |
| 1:50.3 | And I will say oftentimes you get good questions that perhaps warrant an entire episode. |
| 1:56.3 | So sometimes those questions do turn into full episodes and sometimes they turn into episodes |
| 2:00.2 | like this where we're trying to answer about five questions in about five minutes. Cool? Sometimes I fail. Yeah, let's do it. Sometimes we feel. That's okay. We get back up, we try again. This first one is from Larry. Here's what he sent over. Would it be possible for you to review the evidence from the following paper in one of your shows? The paper is titled, Impact of Vegan Diets on Resistance, Exercise Mediated, Myofibrilar, did I get that? |
| 2:24.6 | Myofibralar protein synthesis in healthy young males and females, a randomized control trial. |
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