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Proper control of many of these factors is virtually impossible in most RET study situations. This variability is further complicated by the various permutations possible with various combinations of these factors Haun et al. Perhaps a more prosaic factor contributing to the disconnect between the acute response of MPS and subsequent muscle hypertrophy with RET relates to the inherent limitations of methods used to measure changes in muscle mass in humans.
Reported changes in muscle mass with RET are heavily dependent on the method chosen to assess those changes. Hence, the critical reader should consider the limitations of these methods when evaluating any particular training study.
Changes in muscle mass may be measured on one or more of several levels, that is, biochemical, ultrastructural, histological, and gross anatomical levels. When multiple methods from these levels of hypertrophy are used, the agreement between methods is often poor Haun et al.
Moreover, as detailed above, there are different types of hypertrophy that must be considered in combination with the method chosen to assess changes in muscle mass. Three types of hypertrophy have been proposed: connective tissue, sarcoplasmic, and myofibrillar.
For example, there is evidence that hypertrophy measured at the early stage of a RET program may result from edema-induced, that is, muscle swelling and sarcoplasmic hypertrophy Damas, Phillips, Libardi, et al. This means that if muscle hypertrophy is based on dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry or other methods without consideration of changes in intramuscular fluid, overestimations of true hypertrophy will be made.
Clearly, changes in muscle mass with fluid infiltration are not related to MPS. These methodological factors should be considered when assessing the relationship between the acute response of MPS to changes in muscle mass with RET. Based on our critical evaluation of existing evidence, we can make three practical implications.
In this review, we have attempted to provide an evidence-based critical evaluation for the use of results from acute metabolic studies to predict changes in muscle mass with RET. This lack of predictive power is especially true if the individual is beginning an unaccustomed exercise program.
Nevertheless, this discrepancy should not be used to determine the value of studies measuring MPS in response to REx and protein nutrition. There are multiple examples of studies in which the acute response of MPS does predict the average hypertrophy on a group level Hartman et al.
Moreover, measurement of the acute response of MPS to REx and nutrition interventions can provide valuable information.
Regardless of training status, the acute response of MPS is indicative of protein turnover and muscle remodeling critical for recovery from exercise and adaptation to training. The measurement of integrated MPS that includes the enhanced postprandial response of MPS to protein ingestion in free-living individuals certainly may provide predictive information about subsequent muscle growth, albeit not in individuals undergoing unaccustomed exercise.
Moreover, the acute measurement of MPS also provides more sensitivity than chronic training studies over a much shorter time frame and can thus be viewed as a good starting point for determining nutritional recommendations.
Given the nature of measurement of FSR, if a difference is detected in an acute study, for example, between different protein sources, then we can conclude with high confidence that the measured difference is physiologically relevant, at least qualitatively.
In this regard, the protein source that engenders the greater FSR may be considered the higher quality protein source irrespective of whether chronic studies are able to detect differences in muscle hypertrophy under comparable conditions of protein source manipulation.
Thus, we can use that information to inform subsequent RET studies. Finally, the acute measurement of MPS in response to exercise and nutrition offers valuable mechanistic information.
In fact, delineation of mechanisms of muscle protein metabolism was the aim of many of the seminal studies that are now used to contribute to the development of recommendations Biolo et al.
Thus, whereas practitioners should be aware of the potential pitfalls with reliance on acute metabolic studies for making nutritional recommendations for athletes and exercisers, with proper interpretation a great deal of valuable information may be gleaned from these studies.
Acute measurement of MPS in response to various nutrition and exercise interventions should be viewed as yet another tool in the toolbox for use by practitioners and others.
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The Controversy The controversy surrounding the value of acute i. Physiological Factors Several physiological factors, related to both the acute response of MPS to REx and the muscle hypertrophic response to RET, appear to contribute to the observed discrepancy between measured rates of MPS and muscle hypertrophy.
Table 1 Relationship Between Acute Measurements of MPS and Chronic Changes in Muscle Mass in Response to RET Reference Participants Study design Measurement of MPS Measurement of muscle mass Relationship Balagopal et al. Figure 1 —Individual FSR responses to a combination of REx followed by protein ingestion in two previous studies.
Methodological Factors The lack of ability to predict long-term muscle hypertrophic responses to RET with the acute measurement of MPS does not necessarily reflect the overall worth, or lack thereof, of information obtained from acute metabolic studies.
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Journal of the Website performance tricks Society of Sports Nutrition volume 10Article number: 42 Prktein Protein synthesis post-exercise article. Protein synthesis post-exercise details. It pos-texercise now well established that protein supplementation syntthesis resistance exercise promotes Protein synthesis post-exercise muscle protein synthesis, which ultimately results in greater net muscle accretion, relative to exercise alone or exercise with supplementary carbohydrate ingestion. However, it is not known whether combining carbohydrate with protein produces a greater anabolic response than protein alone. Recent recommendations have been made that the composition of the ideal supplement post-exercise would be a combination of a protein source with a high glycemic index carbohydrate. Herbal weight loss tea plan of the Post-xeercise Society of Sports Nutrition volume Protein synthesis post-exerciseArticle number: 54 Post-exdrcise this article. Metrics Protekn. The purpose of this review Proetin to determine whether past research provides conclusive evidence about the effects of type and timing of ingestion of specific sources of protein by those engaged in resistance weight training. Two essential, nutrition-related, tenets need to be followed by weightlifters to maximize muscle hypertrophy: the consumption of 1. kg -1 of body weight.Protein synthesis post-exercise -
Perhaps you can come back to it later when you are ready to become a true muscle protein synthesis research master. When you ingest protein, the protein is digested into amino acids. These amino acids are absorbed in the gut and subsequently released into the circulation.
From there, the amino acids are transported to peripheral tissues where they are taken up and can be build into tissue protein. Protein synthesis is the process of building new proteins.
This process happens in all organs. Muscle protein synthesis is the process of building specifically muscle protein. Think of a muscle as a wall. Each brick is an amino acid.
Muscle protein synthesis is the addition of new bricks to the wall. Now, this would mean the wall would become larger and larger. However, there is an opposing process. On the other side of the wall, a process called muscle protein breakdown is removing bricks. Muscle protein breakdown is also commonly referred to as muscle proteolysis or muscle degradation.
The difference in speed of these two opposing processes determines the net change in muscle protein size. If muscle protein in synthesis exceeds muscle protein breakdown, the wall will become larger your muscles are growing.
Changes in muscle protein synthesis are much greater in response to exercise and feeding than changes in muscle protein breakdown in healthy humans Phillips, Greenhaff, This is best illustrated by a study which clamped maintained insulin at different concentrations and also clamped amino acids at a high concentration.
In a fasted state, muscle protein breakdown rates were relatively high condition 1. Amino acid infusion did not reduce muscle protein breakdown when insulin was kept low condition 2.
But when insulin was infused to reach a moderate concentration, muscle protein breakdown rates went down condition 3. Further increasing insulin did not have an additional effect on muscle protein breakdown conditions 4 and 5.
Firstly, insulin inhibits muscle protein breakdown, but you only need a moderate insulin concentration to reach the maximal effect. Secondly, protein ingestion does not directly inhibit muscle protein breakdown. While protein intake can decrease muscle protein breakdown Groen, , this is because it increases the insulin concentration.
You only need a minimal amount of food to reach insulin concentrations that maximally inhibit muscle protein breakdown. In agreement, adding carbohydrates to 30 g of protein does not further decrease muscle protein breakdown rates Staples, If the effect on muscle protein breakdown is the same between groups, then changes in muscle protein net balance would be entirely be explained by differences in muscle protein synthesis.
It should be noted that HMB decreases muscle protein breakdown in an insulin independent way Wilkinson, It is not known of the effects of HMB and insulin on muscle protein breakdown are synergistic. However, HMB supplementation appears to have minimal effects of muscle mass gains in long-term studies Rowlands, Of course, you can speculate that muscle protein breakdown becomes more relevant during catabolic conditions during which there is significant muscle loss, such as dieting or muscle disuse e.
bed rest or immobilization. However, it cannot be simply assumed that the observed muscle loss in such condition is the result of increased muscle protein breakdown.
After just 3 days of dieting, there is already a large decrease in muscle protein synthesis. In agreement, there is a large decrease in muscle protein synthesis during muscle disuse. Therefore, muscle loss may be largely or even entirely caused by a reduction in muscle protein synthesis, and not by an increase in muscle protein breakdown.
Then the first question would be, could nutrition prevent this? If the answer is no, muscle protein breakdown is still not that relevant to measure.
If nutrition does have an effect, how much would it take? That would still be a small amount of insulin that any small meal would release and all nutritional interventions have the same effect. So even during catabolic conditions, muscle protein synthesis rates are likely much more relevant than muscle protein breakdown.
While it sounds that muscle protein breakdown is a bad thing and we should try to completely prevent it, that is not necessarily true. Muscle proteins get damaged from exercise, physical activity, and metabolism e. oxidative stress, inflammation etc.
Muscle protein breakdown allows you to break down those damaged muscle proteins into amino acids and recycle most of them into new functional muscle proteins again. In fact, muscle protein breakdown has beneficial roles in muscle growth and adaptation!
This highlights that at least some amount of muscle protein breakdown is necessary to optimally adapt to training and maximize muscle growth Bell, Carbohydrates and fats are made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. In contrast, protein also contains nitrogen. So the nitrogen that we get through our diet has to come from protein.
As protein is broken down by the body, most of the protein derived nitrogen has to be excreted in the urine or it would accumulate and become toxic.
If nitrogen intake is bigger than nitrogen excretion, we are in a positive nitrogen balance. This gives a general view that the body is in an anabolic growing state.
For example, your body might be building gut protein at a rate that exceeds your muscle loss. Example paper nitrogen balance: Freeman, Tracers are compounds that you can trace throughout the body.
Amino acid tracers are the most common type of tracers to assess muscle protein synthesis. These are amino acids that have an additional neutron. These amino acid tracers function identically to normal amino acids. However, they weigh slightly more than a normal amino acid, which allows us to distinguish them from normal amino acids.
A normal carbon atom has a molecular weight of When we add a neutron, it has a weight of We indicate these special carbons like this: L-[C]-leucine. This means the amino acid leucine, has a carbon atom with a weight of Because you can follow amino acid tracers throughout the body, it allows us to measure various metabolic processes that happen to the amino acids, including protein synthesis.
Using amino acid tracers, we can measure protein synthesis, breakdown, oxidation and net balance. Note that protein synthesis refers to protein synthesis of any protein in the body whole-body protein synthesis. Again, do not mistake it for muscle protein synthesis, which is protein synthesis specifically of muscle protein.
Therefore, whole-body protein synthesis measurements are not necessarily relevant for athletes and might actually give you the wrong impression as will be discussed in chapter 3.
However, whole-body protein metabolism data provides more insight than the nitrogen balance method. Nitrogen balance only indicates an overall anabolic or catabolic state. The whole-body protein metabolism method also indicated this by a positive or negative protein net balance. However, it also shows whether changes in net balance are because of an increase in protein synthesis, a decrease in protein breakdown, or a combination of both.
Please note that this does not contradict the earlier discussion on muscle protein breakdown is not that important. Instinctually, you might think that a more positive whole-body protein balance must be a good thing.
Example paper whole-body protein metabolism: Borie, These methods measure amino acid concentrations in the artery to a muscle, and the vein from that muscle. Where did those extra amino acids in the vein come from? Conversely, if the muscle would take up a lot of amino acids from the artery, but releases less amino acids to the vein, it would indicate that the muscle is taking up a lot of amino acids to build muscle proteins.
This method is called the two pool arteriovenous method. To solve this problem, this method can be combined with muscle biopsies. The main advantage of this method is that it measures both muscle protein synthesis and muscle protein breakdown.
Therefore, this is not the preferred method for measuring muscle protein synthesis. Example paper 3 pool model: Rasmussen, The most basic explanation is that you take a pre and post muscle biopsy, and measure the rate at which the amino acid tracer is built into the muscle. It shows you how fast a muscle would rebuild itself entirely.
An FSR of 0. This translates to a completely new muscle every 3 months. However, protein ingestion would disturb this steady state, as a lot of normal amino acids will enter the blood, thus throwing off the tracer amino acid to normal amino acid ratio.
However, our lab has gotten fancy in this area. We have been able to produce highly enriched intrinsically labeled protein. This means that the amino acid tracers have been build into our protein supplements. So as our intrinsically protein supplements are absorbed, both amino acid tracers and normal amino acids enter the blood.
Therefore the steady state is not disrupted and FSR can be calculated more accurately. Example paper FSR with and without intrinsically labeled protein : Holwerda, You can trace the amino acids from the protein: first, as they are digested, then as they appear in the blood, subsequently they are taken up by the muscle, and ultimately some of them are built into actual muscle tissue.
So we can measure how much of the protein you eat, actually ends up into muscle tissue. This is called de novo muscle protein synthesis. Example paper de novo muscle protein synthesis: Trommelen, When measuring muscle protein synthesis, we can measure mixed muscle protein synthesis all types of muscle protein together.
But muscle protein can be further specified into fractions. The main muscle protein fraction is myofibrillar protein. Myofibrillar proteins contract and represent the majority of the muscle mass.
This fraction is highly relevant for building muscle mass and strength. Mitochondrial proteins only represent a small part of the muscle. Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the muscle, they burn carbohydrate and fat for fuel.
Therefore mitochondrial protein synthesis is more informative about energy production capacity in the muscle and more relevant for endurance athletes and metabolic health. Sarcoplasmic protein contains various organelles such as the endoplasmic reticulum and ribosomes.
Intramuscular connective tissue protein represents collagen protein in the muscle. This collagen helps transfer the muscle force generated by myofibrillar protein. Example paper myofibrillar vs mitochondrial protein synthesis: Wilkinson, , or intramuscular connective tissue protein synthesis Trommelen, More recently, deuterium oxide D2O, also called heavy water is getting popular to measure muscle protein synthesis.
Example paper deuterium oxide: Brooks, There is evidence that a variety of signaling molecules are involved in the regulation of muscle protein synthesis. Most notably, the protein from the mTOR pathway. Research of these molecular markers is very important to better understand how physiological processes are regulated and ultimately can be influenced by exercise, nutrition or even drugs.
Therefore, you should be very skeptical to draw conclusions based on studies that only measure molecular markers of muscle protein synthesis and muscle protein breakdown. Methods are not necessarily good or bad. But the interpretation of the data based on these methods can be wrong.
We recently showed that resistance exercise does not increase whole-body protein synthesis Holwerda, So should we conclude that resistance exercise is not effective to build muscle? Whole-body protein metabolism measures the synthesis of all proteins in the body.
Other tissues in the body have much higher synthesis rates, and therefore, the muscle only has a relatively small contribution to the total whole-body protein synthesis rates. In the same study, we also measured muscle protein synthesis using the FSR method both with and without intrinsically labeled protein and de novo muscle protein synthesis.
All 3 methods showed that resistance exercise was anabolic for the muscle. Imagine we would have only measured whole-body protein synthesis. Our study would give the wrong impression that resistance exercise is not anabolic, as we saw no increase in whole-body protein synthesis rates.
Shortly, it says that very large protein meals are beneficial because they reduce protein breakdown. Again, this study gave the wrong impression, because whole-body protein breakdown was mistaken for muscle protein breakdown the latter was not measured in this study.
Both the 40 gram and the 70 gram dose were equally effective at stimulating muscle protein synthesis. One of the purposes of measuring muscle protein synthesis is to study if an intervention helps to build muscle or maintain muscle mass. Let me first get something out of the way: we have no bias for either acute or long-term studies.
We run both at our lab, and do some of the most expensive studies in the field of either type. A lot of people seem to think that based on this study, muscle protein synthesis measurements do not translate to actual muscle mass gains in the long term.
But that conclusion is way beyond the context of the study. This study measured muscle protein synthesis in the 6 hours after a single exercise bout. However, resistance exercise can increase muscle protein synthesis for several days.
So a 6-hour measurement does not capture the entire exercise response. This study showed that measuring muscle protein synthesis for 6 hours does not predict muscle mass gains. That is totally different from the conclusion that muscle protein synthesis regardless of measurement time does not predict muscle mass gains.
This was followed up by a study which used the deuterium oxide method to measure muscle protein synthesis rates during all the weeks of training not just a few hours after one session , and found that muscle protein synthesis did correlate with muscle mass gains during the training program Brooks, More recently, a study found that muscle protein synthesis measured over 48 hours after an exercise bout did not correlate with muscle mass gains in untrained subjects at the beginning of an exercise training program, but it did at three weeks of training and onwards Damas, While untrained subjects have a large increase in muscle protein synthesis after their initial exercise sessions, they also have a lot of muscle damage.
So muscle protein synthesis is mainly used to repair damaged muscle protein, not to grow. After just 3 weeks of training, muscle damage is diminished, and the increase in muscle protein synthesis is actually used to hypertrophy muscles.
So do these studies show that muscle protein synthesis predicts muscle mass gains, but only in the right context. A huge benefit of muscle protein synthesis studies is that they are more sensitive than studies that measure actual muscle mass gains.
This means that muscle protein synthesis studies can detect an anabolic effect easier than long term studies which simply miss it long term studies might draw the wrong conclusion that something does not benefit muscle growth when it actually does.
For example, it has been shown time and time again that protein ingestion increases muscle protein synthesis. Muscle mass gain is simply a very slow process. You need to do a huge study, with a huge amount of subjects, who consume additional protein for many months, before you will actually see a measurable effect of protein supplementation.
We performed a meta-analysis combining the results of individual studies on the effect of protein supplementation on muscle mass gains.
We demonstrated that only 5 studies concluded that protein supplementation had a benefit, while 17 did not! However, most of the studies that showed no significant benefit, did show a small non-significant benefit. When you combine all those results, you increase the statistical power and you can conclude that protein supplementation actually does improve muscle mass.
So in this case, most long-term studies gave the wrong impression, and muscle protein synthesis studies are actually preferred.
There are a lot of long-term studies that have a relative small number of subjects and a small study duration and conclude that an intervention did not work for example, protein supplementation, or X versus Y set of exercise for example.
However, the studies were doomed to begin with. They needed to be 3 times as big and 2 times as long to have a chance to find a positive effect. Now if the effect of giving additional protein is already extremely hard to detect in long-term studies, how realistic is it to find smaller effects?
For example, optimizing protein intake distribution throughout the day has been shown to optimize muscle protein synthesis rates Mamerow, Areta, However, this effect is smaller than adding another protein meal. So the effect of protein distribution is almost impossible to find in a long-term study.
For such a research question, acute muscle protein synthesis studies are simply much better suited. The second big benefit of muscle protein synthesis studies is that they give a lot more mechanistic insight. They help you understand WHY a certain protein is good or not that good at stimulating muscle protein synthesis for example, its digestion properties, amino acid composition etc.
These kinds of insights help to better understand what triggers muscle growth and come up with new research questions. These kind of insights are very hard to obtain in long-term studies, which typically only show the end result of the mechanisms.
The benefits of measuring muscle protein synthesis include the sensitivity, controlled environment, and they allow you to investigate questions that are almost impossible to answer in long-term studies.
Again, we do both and each has its purpose and build on each other. Usually, muscle protein synthesis studies are performed to see if something work as they are very sensitive and why it works. Only when you have both, you have pretty convincing evidence that your intervention does what you claim it to do.
Multiple sets increase muscle protein synthesis more than a single set Burd, A higher weekly training volume number of sets to muscle results in a greater muscle mass gains Schoenfeld, It is often recommended that a rep range of reps per set is optimal for muscle growth. The American College of Sport Medicine position stand states ACSM, :.
For novice untrained individuals with no RT experience or who have not trained for several years training, it is recommended that loads correspond to a repetition range of an repetition maximum RM.
For intermediate individuals with approximately 6 months of consistent RT experience to advanced individuals with years of RT experience training, it is recommended that individuals use a wider loading range from 1 to 12 RM in a periodized fashion with eventual emphasis on heavy loading RM using 3- to 5-min rest periods between sets.
However, these recommendations lack evidence. The main takeaway here is that there are no magic rep ranges that are superior for muscle growth. It is unclear whether each set should be taken to failure.
Muscular failure decreases performance on subsequent sets, thereby reducing training volume. Perhaps performing a set with reps left in the tank will still give a near-maximal stimulus to the muscle, without much of the associated fatigue.
If sets are not taken close to failure, the muscle protein synthetic response will be small Burd, But at least in untrained subjects, training close to failure appears to produce similar muscle mass gains as training to complete failure Nóbrega, A longer rest period between sets increases the larger post-exercise muscle protein synthetic response compared to a short rest period 5 vs 1 min McKendry, In agreement, a longer interset rest period improves muscle mass gains compared to a shorter rest period 3 vs 1 min Schoenfeld, A single bout of resistance exercise can stimulate muscle protein synthesis for longer than 72 hour, but peaks at 24 h Miller, Indeed, training each muscle group at least twice a week results in larger muscle mass gains Schoenfeld, The total muscle protein synthetic MPS response determined by the increase in MPS rates and the duration of these increased rates is decreased in trained subjects compared to untrained subjects Damas, However, the pattern of this decreased response is differs between mixed muscle protein synthesis the synthesis of all types of muscle proteins and myofibrillar protein synthesis the synthesis of contractile proteins: the relevant measurement for muscle mass.
The increase in mixed muscle protein synthesis is shorter lived in trained subjects. In contrast, myofibrillar protein synthesis rates do not increase as much in trained subjects, but the duration of the increase does not appear impacted.
The larger increase in the total muscle protein synthetic response seems like a logical explanation why untrained people can make faster much gains than experienced lifters.
However, this is not necessarily true. In untrained subjects, there is not only a large increase myofibrillar protein synthesis, but also in muscle damage following resistance exercise. A large portion of the myofibrillar protein synthesis is used to simply repair damaged muscle proteins, rather than growing muscle proteins.
In more trained subjects, here is a smaller increase in myofibrillar protein synthesis, but there is also much less or even minimal muscle damage following resistance exercise just weeks of training is enough to see these effects.
This means that in a trained state, the increase in myofibrillar protein synthesis can actually be used to actually increase muscle mass. When you correct for muscle damage, myofibrillar protein synthesis rates measured over 48 hour post-exercise recovery are similair in untrained subjects and after 10 weeks of training Damas, Of course, most athletes would hardly consider someone trained after just 10 weeks.
Unfortunately, little is know about how years of serious training impacts the muscle protein synthetic response to resistance exercise. Twenty gram of protein gives a near-maximal increase in MPS after lower body resistance.
When data of several studies was combined and the amount of protein was expressed per bodyweight, it was found that on average 0. However, the authors suggest a safety margin of 2 standard deviations to account for inter-intervidual variability, resulting in a dose of protein that would optimally stimulate MPS at an intake of 0.
More recently, it has been shown that the amount of lean body mass does not impact the response to protein ingestion Macnaughton, The authors speculated that this was related to the fact that this was following a session of whole-body resistance exercise compared to the lower-body exercise used in previous studies.
Protein sources differ in their capacity to stimulate MPS. This is best illustrated by study which compared the muscle protein synthetic response to casein, casein hydrolysate and whey protein.
Casein is a slowly digesting protein. When intact casein is hydrolyzed chemically cut into smaller pieces , it resembles the digestion of a fast-digesting protein. Consequently, hydrolyzed casein results in higher MPS rates than intact casein. However, the muscle protein synthetic response to hydrolyzed is lower than that of whey protein.
While both proteins are fast digesting, whey protein has a higher essential amino acid content including leucine Pennings, Animal based protein sources are typically have a high essential amino acid content and appears more potent than plant protein to stimulate MPS Van Vliet, However, there this can potentially compensated by ingesting a greater amount of plant protein Gorissen, Leucine is the amino acid that is thought to be most potent at stimulating MPS.
Peak plasma leucine concentrations following protein ingestion typically correlate with muscle protein synthesis rates Pennings, This supports the notion that protein digestion rate and protein leucine content are important predictors for anabolic effect of a protein source.
This is best illustrated by study Churchward-Venne, which compared the muscle protein synthetic response to five different supplemental protocol:. All five conditions increased muscle protein synthesis rates compared to fasting conditions.
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