Whey or Casein? Pre- or Post Workout Protein? Insights into Peri-Workout Nutrition from Small Scale Study in Elderly People Bring Milk Back onto the Radar
You already read it in the title of this post: The following data comes from a small scale study ( Dideriksen. 2011 ) in elderly people. Those, who listened to my dissertation on how reliable science is (aired on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio on Wednesday, 20 April 2011), will know that a small number of participants from what one may call a " special population ", in this case 15 elderly men and nine elderly women (age 68 ± 1 years, range 61–80 years) , dictates caution in view of the overall significance and reliability of the data . The results which are soon to be published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports are nonetheless, worth to be taken note of. Diderisken et al. had their subjects (again: 15 elderly men and 9 elderly women; age 68 ± 1 years, range 61–80 years) perform 5 sets of eight repetitions at 80% of 1 RM in both unilateral knee-extension and bilateral leg-press with 3 min of rest between sets and measured muscle myof...