SNR #81: Joseph Agu - Protein Synthesis, Amino Acids & Pre-bed Casein

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 28 July 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Episode 81: Nutritionist and doctoral researcher Joseph Agu is on the show to discuss pre-bed casein, protein quality, absorption rates of different whey supplements and the usefulness of branched-chain amino acids.

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0:00.0	If someone's consuming enough protein for that day, according to the research,
0:11.0	my understanding of the research, that's the most important factor when speaking of protein intake.
0:18.0	If you consume just branch amino acids on their own, obviously that's going to cause an
0:24.4	increase in plasmolucine and as well as the other two amino acids, they're the branching
0:29.6	amino acids. But unless there's other essential amino acids present as well as some of the
0:35.0	non-essential amino acids, then you could well be stimulating
0:40.3	protein synthesis, but then if you've not got the other amino acids there, there's nothing
0:46.3	to synthesize. Hello and welcome. My name is Danny Lennon and you are listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio.
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1:59.0	Or you can head on over to the site sigmautrition.com. So here we are at episode 81. And today I'm going to be talking with
2:09.3	Joseph Agu, who is a nutritionist based in the UK and a really, really, really smart guy.
2:16.9	I have so much respect for his work. If you've
2:20.2	ever checked out his website, you'll see some articles that are just extremely comprehensive
2:26.4	on the topic. And what I really love is everything is so objective. And again, going back to
2:33.1	what the research tells us and what
2:35.6	sensible conclusions we can draw which I think is a massive thing and it's it's quite
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