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'Native' Whey, the Superior Whey? Transient Benefits on 'Recovery', No Size or Performance Gains in 12-Week RCT

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'Natural' whey is filtered right out of skim milk, 'regular' whey from the liquid 'waste" that accumulates in the cheese production - that's at least how the scientists in the study at hand define 'natural' - in the literature 'natural whey' often refers to whey concentrate/isolate vs. hydrolysates, ie. quasi-predigested protein with a completely different peptide content. I've discussed potential differences between 'native' whey protein and 'regular' whey protein supplements before. Unfortunately, the only evidence we've had, so far, has yet been the observation that it is digested even more rapidly than regular whey protein ( learn more in my 2017 article) - a mere increase in speed, however, doesn't necessarily translate to significant, let alone practically relevant increases in muscle and/or performance gain z ... without longitudinal studies, we're thus screwed when it comes to the interpretation o...
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No Native Advantage: RCT Compares High-Leucine "Native" Whey to Regular Concentrate - Finds NO Difference in MPS

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Is the literally "raw" raw material that's used to manufacture "native whey" worth the extra bucks the final products cost? Native whey fails the real world test. In February this year, I already predicted that the "benefits" of "native whey" will probably turn out to be practically irrelevant. In the corresponding article "Native Whey, a Superior Muscle Builder? Recently Observed Impressive Absorption Rates Tell You Nothing About 'Gains'" ( re-read it ). Back in the day, I made a point that the improved amino acid kinetics, i.e. the more rapid appearance of amino acids Hamarsland et al. observed in their first study this year (Hamarsland 2017) for native compared to 'regular' whey protein was unlikely to trigger significant differences in actual protein synthesis - let alone long-term gains. Now, a recent study by Hamarsland et al. (2017b) confirms just that - as early as in the title, by the way: "Nati...
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Native Whey, a Superior Muscle Builder? Recently Observed Impressive Absorption Rates Tell You Nothing About 'Gains'

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Do you have to replace your whey protein concentrate with "native whey" product to avoid missing out on massive gains? The study to answer this question has not yet been, done, but the study at hand certainly does not warrant this conclusion. You will probably have seen the results of the latest study from a recent paper by scientists from the  Norwegian School of Sport Sciences  (Hamarsland. 2017). The one, where 20g of native whey protein showed significantly faster amino acid absorption than 20 g of whey protein concentrate 80 (WPC80), hydrolyzed whey (WPH), microparticulated whey (MWP), and milk proteins (Milk) after being administered to thirteen healthy male subjects (age: 26.6 ± 7.4 years, height: 180.8 ± 6.3 cm, weight: 80.8 ± 6.3 kg) in a single-blinded, randomized, five-way crossover, controlled study - a study, of which I am pretty sure that various snake oil vendors are already (ab-)using it to sell expensive "native", i.e. unprocessed whey protein a...
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