Dietary protein is composed of 20 amino acids, nine of which are essential and must be obtained from the diet.

“dietary protein we speak about it as if it's one thing but actually it's 20 different amino acids nine of which are essential the rest we can generate in our body and when we think about skeletal muscle we think about the essential amino acids and the essential amino acids primarily for skeletal muscle Health are the branch chain amino acids Lucine being one of those so Lucine is uniquely stimulating to skeletal muscle and when you have enough Lucine it triggers muscle protein synthesis”