Carbs, Leucine and Muscle Protein Synthesis: Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 2 Emerges as a New Player in a Game Where AMPK not mTOR is the Captain of the Team
Image 1: AMPK, not mTOR turns out to be the caption of the team If you, do not only read my blogposts, here at the SuppVersity, but also follow some of the nutrition-related episodes on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio , or Dr. Connelly's BodyRX show, you probably won't be a stranger to the amino acid "Leucine" and the name "Dr. Layne Norton" , will probably remind you of the fact that, contrary to public believe, successful bodybuilders don't have to be dump meatheads. If, now, you have also listened to the latest episode of the BodyRX show, chances are, you do even remember Dr. Norton ;-) mention that his group at the University of Illinois recently did another study into the effects of amino acid supplementation... now, you tell me: Where is the place to read about the results of studies like that first? Yeah, of course, the SuppVersity is the place to go ;-) In their study, Gabriel J. Wilson and his colleagues from the Division of Nutritio...