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Protein for Muscle and Metabolism: When and How much? | Donald Layman PhD

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The Effect of Second Meal on Protein Synthesis

Protein synthesis and muscle will come back to baseline after about two and a half hours. Leucine is still high in the blood at four or five hours after a meal, depending on how much you ate. There are other things that happen, which I would love for you to explain as just a general oversight of why that second meal doesn't necessarily matter as much when it comes to dosing protein.

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