Paul Saladino· MD
the way to gain lean muscle mass or to keep what you have is to get enough high quality protein in your diet and to do resistance exercise in order to trigger optimal muscle growth
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the way to gain lean muscle mass or to keep what you have is to get enough high quality protein in your diet and to do resistance exercise in order to trigger optimal muscle growth
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weight training is probably the best way to either add lean mass or preserve it and then maybe protein intake itself is second
so the idea that oh well like if I eat some higher protein I can lay down some more lean body mass yeah you can but it's going to be really really minimal compared to what you can build through resistance training