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Simplifying Nutrition for Muscle Building and Longevity #311

Muscle Intelligence

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How to Optimize for Muscle Protein Synthesis

If you're spending all day running away from the tribe of hyenas, in case I guess, you're not going to grow. The amino acid leucine is the signal for muscle protein synthesis in the body. So am I getting at least three grams of leucine? And at the same time, do I have enough what's called substrate amino acids just kind of floating around my blood stream?

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