Whey and Casein Work Hand in Hand for Protein Anabolism, but Scientists Overlook Fat, When They Reassemble Milk
Image 1: Ex-Mr. Universe, Manohar Aich, turns 100 and swears by milk and other whole foods ( NYDaily ) Do you know the good old saying that you often only realize what you had, once you have lost it? A recent study by scientists from the Division of Endocrinology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester ( Soop. 2012 ) is only the latest instance, in which we (in this particularly case not even scientists, but the food industry) disassembled a natural product, namely milk, in order to maximize its benefits (or our revenues?) only to realize now that the the resulting parts - as good as they may be - are not up to what the whole has had in stock for us. Whey + casein + lactose = almost milk In order to quantify the quantity and time course of the total body, splachnic (hepatic) and leg protein flux of whey and casein, Mattias Soop, Vandana Nehra, Gregory C. Henderson, Yves Boirie, G. Charles Ford, and K. Sreekumaran Nair conceived a clever experiment. They used differently labeled whe...