Leucine Inhibits Nitric Oxide & Beneficial Effects of Cardio Training on Glucose Management. Plus: No Increase in Protein Synthesis W/ Protein After Eccentric Workouts?
Pre-, Post and Intra-workout supplements are a multi-million dollar business. But are the products at least half as effective as the shiny advertisements claim? Let me guess, the actual reason you want to read this article is the shocking claim that everybody's darling, the "pro-anabolic amino acid" leucine may, in addition to having beneficial effects on the phosphorylation of mTOR and the subsequent increase in skeletal muscle protein synthesis, also have negative effects. Right? Ok, I will add a link that takes you right to my elaborations on two recent studies from the São Paulo University and the China Agricultural University and allows you to skip past the information about another recent study. A study from the Department of Public Health at the Aarhus University and a study that raises the question, whether its results are indicate that eccentric training is potent enough to maximize the protein anabolic response to an extend that the additional provisio...
