It’s been argued that you should consume a slow-digesting protein immediately before bed to keep blood amino acid levels elevated overnight. But, do slow-digesting proteins really outperform faster-digesting proteins? And do we really need to worry about pre-sleep protein ingestion in the first place?

A recent meta-analysis by Steele and colleagues investigated effort in resistance training. The results were pretty surprising.

The hypertrophic response to resistance training is highly variable between individuals, potentially due to the magnitude of the myofibrillar protein synthetic response, increase in ribosome content, and increase in satellite cell number. This is the first paper to examine these variables in relationship to hypertrophic outcomes in young, untrained women.

A recent meta-analysis by Garcia-Hermoso and colleagues sought to evaluate the proportion of individuals adhering to government guidelines for aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities.