Whey Protein and Improved Lower-Body Muscular Strength

• Effects of Whey Protein Supplementation on Body Composition, Muscular Strength, and Cardiometabolic Health in Older Adults: A Systematic Review with Pairwise Meta-Analysis.

  • 2025-11-05
  • Review · n = 1,454
  • Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 13(21)
  • • Mousa Khalafi
    • Saeid Fatolahi
    • Reihaneh Jafari
    • Sara K Rosenkranz
    • Michael E Symonds
    • Zeinab Abbaszadeh Bidgoli
    • Maria Luz Fernandez
    • Farnaz Dinizadeh
    • Alexios Batrakoulis

  • PubMed: 41228181
  • DOI: 10.3390/healthcare13212814

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Lower-Body Muscular Strength

  • High evidence
  • Elderly

  WP supplementation increased lower-body muscular strength [SMD: 0.16 (95% CI: 0.04 to 0.28), p = 0.007; 19 trials]

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes