Resistance training, but not leucine, increased basal muscle protein synthesis and reversed frailty in older women consuming optimized protein intake.
- 2025-09-09
- RCT · n = 19
- GeroScience 48(3)
- Kathryn J Jacob
- Guy Hajj-Boutros
- Vita Sonjak
- Jean-Phillippe Leduc-Gaudet
- Felipe Broering
- Charles Robb Flynn
- Stéphanie Chevalier
- Marie Lamarche
- Sabah N A Hussain
- José A Morais
- PubMed: 40926079
- DOI: 10.1007/s11357-025-01877-2
- High evidence
- Clinical
Leucine had no added anabolic benefit.
- Effect
- Neutral
- Effect size
- Small
- Significant
- No
- Dose
- 7.5 g/d