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#076 Building Muscle with Resistance Exercise and Reassessing Protein Intake | Stuart Phillips, PhD

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Is Growth Hormone Boosting Muscle Protein Synthesis?

Growth hormon has an effect on muscle protein synthesis. Hormons go up after exercise, and they're driving this protein synthetic response. Women get the same amount of muscle growth as men do. But they had less muscle to start with. The most damning evidence against tistosteron is that it's almost a feminizing process for these guys. Men who have prostate cancer are often taken from a normal hypogonal state to a testrian state where they lose muscle yet still gain mass.

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