While RCTs show no difference between plant and animal protein for muscle mass gain over 8 weeks, animal protein may be superior due to factors like limiting amino acids and lower leucine content.

“i think the studies are probably a little bit underpowered and shorter on time to actually show the differences we want to show”

“okay i i understand that randomized control trial is the gold standard if we are looking at resistance trained individuals um eight weeks in terms of looking at actual muscle mass is such a short period of time okay now i understand my bias is i did work in leucine i was funded by the egg and dairy councils all that kind of stuff so i'm sure that the any uh any uh conspiracy theorists out there will have a field day but i would never tell somebody you can't build muscle with plant protein of course you can just go look at the those plant-based bodybuilders so obviously you can do it right now can you build just as much muscle with plant protein i think you can however it's probably going to require more planning on your part and just a little bit more attention to detail because because of the the factors of limiting amino acids low leucine content those sorts of things do i think all things being equal animal protein is probably a superior form of protein i do”

“if you look at the randomized control trials you know plant versus animal it just doesn't make a difference if total protein is equated”