“Why is this important?” Lanore rhetorically asked, “because protein builds muscle and muscle is metabolic currency. Just like the money you save to get you through your golden years, you need skeletal muscle to avoid the ravages of aging.” Lanore believes that skeletal muscle is our one chance at anti-aging and sings the praises of proper resistance exercise, nutrition and supplementation on his radio show.
“I’m stronger today than I was when I was 25 years old and I want to know which protein sources will give me the results I’m looking for.” he offered. The group at University of Illinois was searching to see which protein source increased muscle anabolism to the greatest degree. There has been lots of controversy about soy protein and its comparison to milk protein. The study, which is due to be published shortly, shows hands down that soy protein was not only NOT comparable to whey protein but actually had the same muscle growing effects as the control group which received NO protein at all.
The study used the macronutrient ratios offered by the Recommended Daily Allowances for a meal of 16% protein, 54% carbohydrates and 30% fats to ensure that the playing field was level for all of the test protein sources. “why protein showed the best result with egg protein a close second” said Norton, the protein from wheat and soy were poor performers as compared to the two animal protein sources.
“There’s a lot of bad information out there today about animal sources of protein. Paleolithic humans were the last generation of humans to eat the way we are genetically predisposed to eat and they ate little is any carbohydrates. They live almost exclusively on animal proteins and fats.” said Lanore.
The elderly and young children are at the greatest risk of not getting adequate amounts of protein in their diets for various reasons. Whey protein supplements are a good choice and convenient to use.
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