Paul Saladino· MD
right in beef which is eight point six percent leucine you need 29 grams of protein to get 2.5 grams of leucine which means you could basically eat like 4 ounces of beef and get a muscle protein response
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right in beef which is eight point six percent leucine you need 29 grams of protein to get 2.5 grams of leucine which means you could basically eat like 4 ounces of beef and get a muscle protein response
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we need about 2 to 2.5 grams of leucine to get muscle protein response right in beef which is eight point six percent leucine you need 29 grams of protein to get 2.5 grams of leucine which means you could basically eat like 4 ounces
so what Tommy's saying here is we're saying the same thing I'll just clarify for people with about four ounces of high-quality animal protein you will get that 2.6 ish gram leucine threshold and trigger muscle protein synthesis
with about four ounces of high quality animal protein you will get that 2.6 ish gram leucine threshold and trigger muscle protein synthesis
eight ounces of of red meat would give me easily the optimal amount of bioavailable Lucine for my frame of 160 pounds 170 pound human