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This is not your average protein shoot-out - the amount of leucine and the mTOR and protein synthetic response were not even measured. It's actually rare to read the phrease "in contrast to previous studies" in a study about whey protein. There have been dozens,... ah, what do I see, hundreds of studies that have investigated almost all aspects of the biochemical, digestive, and health properties of whey proteins and still, there it is: The sentence-starter "in contrast to previous studies" in a paper that's about to be published in one of the upcoming issues of the Journal of Proteome Research . The proteome, by the way, is the entire set of proteins expressed by a genome, cell, tissue or organism at a certain time and a study that compares the acute differential effects between whey isolate, cod and gluten (=wheat) protein on postprandial amino acid, and lipid levels, as well as other metabolites is not what I would be looking for in this journal. ...

It's somewhat ironic that Nurse's are one of the three high risk groups for breast cancer, because they work night shifts to help others. Who the other two groups are? Female military personnel and flight attendants on international flights. If you did already listen to yesterday's installment of the Science Round-Up , you should actually be able to connect the dots between both, the first and second course of today's installment of the Science Round-Up Seconds , and the studies on the effects of DHA on fatty acid metabolism, as well as the fallacies of insufficient, interrupted, or irregular sleep Carl and I have been addressing, yesterday. If all that does not ring a bell, I suspect you missed the show and have not had a chance to listen to the podcast (as usual the Science Round-Up starts in the 2nd hour of the show), yet. In this unfortunate case, I'd suggest you do at least start downloading the file while you take the first bite of today's two cour...

Image 1: This can of tuna (140g) would contains exactly 7 servings of muscle building fat burning fish protein... well, sort of. At least it contains as much protein as the subjects in the Vikøren study consumed in the form of capped cod protein isolate in the 2nd half, the "high-dose" phase of the 8-week intervention (Vikøren. 2012) Protein days at the SuppVersity! Well, sort of... after yesterday's news on the pro-insulinogenic effects of whey protein and its not so significant negative impacts on your body composition in the absence of profoundly increased energy consumption (i.e. whey, ah... I mean "way" beyond the ~20% max. increase I suggest for a clean bulk). We will take a look at another, hitherto largely overlooked protein source: Fish! Yeah, I know, you all eat your serving of fish once or twice a week - fatty fish to be precise to derive the alleged health benefits of the latter, but did you ever remotely consider supplementing with fish prote...