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Strong Support
If you're a young man who lifts weights regularly, eating 1.8 grams of protein per kilogram of your body weight every day is enough to build as much muscle as you can from training—adding extra leucine powder won't help you get any bigger or stronger.
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Supporting (1)
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Leucine Supplementation Has No Further Effect on Training-induced Muscle Adaptations
Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2020 AugScientists gave some guys extra leucine (a protein building block) while they lifted weights, but those who got the extra leucine didn’t get bigger or stronger than those who didn’t — meaning their normal protein intake was already enough.
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