Paul Saladino· MD
well no matter what you do when you add leucine to your body you're going to trigger igf-1 and mtor
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
well no matter what you do when you add leucine to your body you're going to trigger igf-1 and mtor
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when i eat you better believe i'm turning on mtor i'm gonna eat all the protein i can i'm gonna get tons of leucine and do it with zeal because i want to turn on mtor
What's interesting here is that leucine, specifically a branched-chain amino acid that is found predominantly in meat, that is essential for muscle protein synthesis, something I think is very good, especially as we age, is really painted as the main culprit here.
The main anabolic component of protein is the branch chain amino acid Lucine which is a potent stimulator of muscle protein synthesis