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Strong Support
If you're a young guy who lifts weights and you take 10 grams of leucine powder split into two doses a day, it won't make you eat more or less protein or leucine from your regular food.
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Evidence from Studies
Supporting (1)
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Leucine Supplementation Has No Further Effect on Training-induced Muscle Adaptations
Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2020 AugThe study gave men extra leucine pills but found they didn’t eat more or less protein from food — so the supplements didn’t change their normal eating habits.
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