Should you eat protein before exercise, or after?

(please share this with the exercise nut in your family!!)
 

For example, the study has a number of limitations. Besides its small size, it did not look at actual muscle mass changes over time — but only short-term changes in participants’ muscle-fiber proteins after the protein drink. 


Basically, researchers had two groups of men exercise, then took plugs of muscles out of their thigh [ow!] before and after exercise, with and without protein drinks. There was more protein available in the muscles of the group that had taken the protein drink. Will that translate into larger muscles or long term changes? It’s not clear from this study. 


What is interesting, though?  
I liked it that, when they compared how young people and older people’s body’s responded to exercise, they found no difference. In other words, you don’t HAVE to lose muscle mass as you get older. You just have to get on an exercise bike, drink a protein shake, and let a researcher take a plug out of your leg muscle [just kidding]. 


Actually, you just have to keep moving. 


Should you eat protein before exercise, or after? | Reuters
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