Older adults might need to eat about 40 grams of protein before bed to help their muscles repair and grow overnight, because 20 grams isn’t enough as their bodies become less responsive to smaller amounts of protein with age.

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The Impact of Pre-sleep Protein Ingestion on the Skeletal Muscle Adaptive Response to Exercise in Humans: An Update

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2019

The study shows that eating protein before bed helps muscles recover, but it doesn’t test whether older people need more protein (like 40 grams) compared to less (20 grams), so it can’t confirm that higher amounts are better.

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The Impact of Pre-sleep Protein Ingestion on the Skeletal Muscle Adaptive Response to Exercise in Humans: An Update

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DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2019.00017

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