Studies continue to debunk the idea that muscle protein synthesis plateaus at 20-25 grams of protein.

“What McNaughton and colleagues did, they hit the subjects with a 24- ish set regimen, full body. So, it was a little bit more ecologically valid, in the sense that they tried to mirror what goes on in the real world with training regimens, with people who are trying to build muscle and really elicit this anabolic response. So, when they ran this experiment and they compared 20 versus 40 grams of protein, the 40 grams of protein actually had a greater muscle protein synthesis response than the 20 grams.”