Rhonda Patrick
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Multiple human studies have shown this.
These are tracer studies, beautiful data, no argument.
Exercise causes leucine and other branch chain amino acids to be taken up into skeletal muscle.
where you want it to be so that it activates mTOR, increases muscle protein synthesis.
When it comes to deactivating mTOR, whether that's through protein restriction or rapamycin, that would be like an hours-long podcast talking about all the nuanced data there because there's all sorts of differences with sex differences in rodents.
You're aware of all this data.
My biggest thing here with the protein restriction, let's talk about one.
I did spend six years in grad school working with mice.
I did a lot of animal studies.
These mice are in a small cage.
They are not physically active.
They are not running around.
I mean, they move a little bit.
They're not under threat.
They're being fed ad libitum.
They're just being fed as much protein as they want.
They're not being exposed to influenza or COVID, whatever viruses, anything that's going to take them out for a period of a couple of weeks.
They're in a sterile environment.
They're happy.
They're happy and that's it.