Optimizing Protein Intake With Luc van Loon, PhD

Everything you need to know for optimal protein nutrition to maximize your training and adaption. Dr. van Loon joins us from the Netherlands where he leads a large and outstanding research group. He's the world's leading expert on this topic. How much, when, what about sex differences, what about aging, right after training, what about over night...we cover it all!

Below is a list of some of the papers we discussed during the episode.
For a full list of Dr. van Loon’s research on protein, click HERE

1. Post-Prandial Protein Handling: You Are What You Just Ate

2. Protein ingestion before sleep improves postexercise overnight recovery

3. Pre-sleep protein ingestion does not compromise the muscle protein synthetic response to protein ingested the following morning

4. Strategies to maintain skeletal muscle mass in the injured athlete: nutritional considerations and exercise mimetics

5. Skeletal muscle disuse atrophy is not attenuated by dietary protein supplementation in healthy older men

6. Prolonged Adaptation to a Low or High Protein Diet Does Not Modulate Basal Muscle Protein Synthesis Rates - A Substudy

7. Habituation to low or high protein intake does not modulate basal or postprandial muscle protein synthesis rates: a randomized trial

8. Ingestion of Wheat Protein Increases In Vivo Muscle Protein Synthesis Rates in Healthy Older Men in a Randomized Trial

9. What is the Optimal Amount of Protein to Support Post-Exercise Skeletal Muscle Reconditioning in the Older Adult?

10. Dietary protein for athletes: from requirements to optimum adaptation