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"Muscle Protein Synthesis and Response to Exercise & Nutrition" with Professor Kevin Tipton

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Show Notes

Episode 153 of the Institute of Performance Nutrition's "We Do Science" podcast! In this episode, I (Laurent Bannock) discuss "Muscle Protein Synthesis and Exercise & Nutrition" with Professor Kevin Tipton (The Institute of Performance Nutrition, UK). Discussion Topics Include: Defining Muscle Protein Synthesis (MPS) Acute MPS and Muscle Hypertrophy: The Relevance and Uncertainty MPS is not just Hypertrophy, but also Remodelling and Rapair Training Status and MPS Methods of Measurement Methodological Issues in Research & How this Should Impact Translation into Practice Physiology and MPS

Podcast Episode Transcript: Download PDF Copy Key Paper(s) Discussed / Referred to: What is the relationship between the acute muscle protein synthesis response and changes in muscle mass? ARE NOT INTRACELLULAR HEAT AND NEURAL ELECTRICITY STRESSES THE CAUSE OF EXERCISE-INDUCED PROTEIN SYNTHESIS? A Review of Resistance Training-Induced Changes in Skeletal Muscle Protein Synthesis and Their Contribution to Hypertrophy The development of skeletal muscle hypertrophy through resistance training: the role of muscle damage and muscle protein synthesis

Related Podcast Episodes: #150 - "Muscle Protein Breakdown in Response to Nutrition and Exercise" with Professor Kevin Tipton #103 - 'Hypertrophy & Individual Differences in Response to Training' with Brandon Roberts PhD #101 - 'S&C Science, Muscle Plasticity, and Practice Epistemology' with Andy Galpin PhD #42 - 'Mechanisms of Muscle Hypertrophy' with Brad Schoenfeld PhD

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