Andrew Huberman· PhD
this indicates that whether you're eating within 30 minutes or 3 hours, that's not going to affect the extent to which that dietary protein can support your muscle adaptations.
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this indicates that whether you're eating within 30 minutes or 3 hours, that's not going to affect the extent to which that dietary protein can support your muscle adaptations.
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we find the benefit is after exercise not before
if you ingest protein it further increases the response to exerise and you see greater myoi protein synthesis
if you ingest protein immediately after exercise you get at least for the first five hours you definitely have a much greater response because exercise makes the muscle more sensitive to the anabolic response to food intake
that effect is dwarfed by the effect of a training stimulus plus uh protein
in trained people that initial robust response comes back down about 10 to 12 hours and at 24 hours is basically not different from Baseline
Exercise effectively primes your muscles, increasing their receptivity to protein.
However, if you perform resistance exercise before consuming protein, this effect is amplified—even more so than with protein alone.
it doesn't really matter that much because exercise makes the muscle more sensitive to the stimulation of muscle protein synthesis through food intake but it does so for up to 24 to even 48 hours
exercise reduce makes the like we said before exercise makes the muscle more sensitive to the anabolic properties of protein feeding so it theoretically it reduces your Lucine threshold so with a lesser increase in Lucine you would actually get a greater Muscle Pro synthesis