Protein enrichment
2014 has been an excellent year for protein, so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that our second most read article of the year concerned boosting muscle synthesis in young men.
Scientists from McMaster University in Canada and the Nestlé Research Centre, Nestec Ltd in Switzerland reported that supplementing low-protein beverages with leucine can produce the same level of muscle synthesis in young men as a beverage with five times the protein levels.
“These findings show that, within the context of mixed macronutrient intake, suboptimal protein doses can be made more effective in stimulating [myofibrillar protein synthesis] through the addition of a high proportion of free leucine,” wrote the researchers, led by Tyler Churchward-Venne from McMaster.
The result, which would allow formulators to achieve significant muscle dose with significantly lower levels of protein, have “important implications for formulations of protein beverages designed to enhance muscle anabolism”, they added.
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