The Claim
In healthy older adults consuming 1.5 g of protein per kg of lean body mass daily, the muscle's ability to incorporate dietary amino acids into new proteins is not impaired by consuming 60% of daily protein in a single evening meal.
What the research says
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In healthy older adults who consume 1.5 grams of protein per kilogram of lean body mass each day, eating 60% of that protein in one evening meal does not reduce the muscle's capacity to use amino acids to build new proteins.
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In healthy older adults consuming 1.5 g of protein per kg of lean body mass daily, the muscle's ability to incorporate dietary amino acids into new proteins is not impaired by consuming 60% of daily protein in a single evening meal.
When enough protein is eaten in total, amino acids stay in the blood long enough for muscles to keep using them to build new proteins, even if most of the protein is eaten at once in the evening.
What the research says
1 studyWhen older adults eat enough protein in total, it doesn’t matter if they eat most of it at dinner — their muscles still use it just as well to repair and build tissue.
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