Protein plus alanine keeps your muscles in 'build mode' a little longer than protein alone, but the total amount built is the same.

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Addition of carbohydrate or alanine to an essential amino acid mixture does not enhance human skeletal muscle protein anabolism.

Randomized Controlled Trial

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2013 Mar

Adding alanine to amino acids made the muscle-building effect last longer, but it didn’t make the total muscle growth any bigger than amino acids alone.

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Addition of carbohydrate or alanine to an essential amino acid mixture does not enhance human skeletal muscle protein anabolism.

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DOI: 10.3945/jn.112.168203

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