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Oh this is very cool. It seems like the takeaway for body builders is “you don’t actually have to time protein ingestion super carefully?”
by natbennett 3y ago
Oh this is very cool. It seems like the takeaway for body builders is “you don’t actually have to time protein ingestion super carefully?”
- dools 3y agoI think it makes no sense that one would need to time protein intake. After all the way muscle grows is in response to damage after use. We don’t worry about a “calcium window” when we break a bone.
- ensacco 3y agoNot from what I can tell. There still seems to be a spike in anabolic response shortly after ingestion that curtails over the course of the following 12 hours, with a 2-3 hour window holding the most concentration of lysine/most other amino acids. From what I've read, my key take-away is that the previously assumed limits of protein ingestion aren't as low as this study suggests. Though, it's worth pointing out that protein consumption in this trial was 0g, 25g and 100g, missing the ~50g mark* that most bodybuilders assumed to be the cap. *edit: or, 0.25g per lb of bodyweight