Will BCAAs give you the muscle gainz?

After water, tea is the most popular drink in the world. We turn to it for comfort, for a break in the day, and increasingly, for its claimed mood‑calming powers. Scroll through social media and you’ll find no shortage of claims that tea, or more so one of its bioactive compounds ...  Show more

One of the best guides to food variety is colour. And for colour, there’s a group of natural plant chemicals called anthocyanins that are getting a lot of attention for their potential benefits on the brain. Anthocyanins are the pigments that give red, purple, and blue plants the ...  Show more

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2552: Christian Finn debunks the common belief that consuming carbohydrates post-workout is essential for muscle growth. Fi ...  Show more

A new study challenges the assumption that you can only absorb and utilize 25 grams of protein in one meal. 

Anything more than this won't increase muscle protein synthesis or anabolic signaling—those excess amino acids will be oxidized (broken down), the thinking went. ...

You’ve probably heard you need to eat a high protein for maintaining muscle. 

But when life happens and eating a lot of protein isn't feasible, how does it affect our muscles? How low can we realistically go with daily protein without compromising our muscles?

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Building and maintaining muscle mass is one of the most important (yet underappreciated) components of overall health and longevity. Having sufficient muscle mass plays a critical role in immune function, metabolism, resiliency and recovery, and so much more. On this episode of T ...  Show more