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The Muscle Building Effects of Leucine

Protein supplementation enhances the synthesis of skeletal muscle protein. Such myofibrillar protein synthesis is thought to occur through activation of a signal cascade involving rapamycin-1 complex (a protein kinase that regulates cell growth, protein synthesis and cell proliferation amongst other … Continue reading

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