"BCAA Supplementation for Enhancing Muscular Strength and Hypertrophy" with Professor Kevin Tipton

Episode 158 of the Institute of Performance Nutrition's "We Do Science" podcast! In this episode, I (Laurent Bannock) discuss "BCAA Supplementation for Enhancing Muscular Strength and Hypertrophy" with Professor Kevin Tipton (The Institute of Performance Nutrition, UK).

Discussion Topics Include:

• Overview of Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAA) as a popular supplement in sport and exercise nutrition
• BCAA s integral importance for skeletal muscle protein metabolism
• Physiological roles and characteristics of BCAAs, EAAs, and Leucine in enhancing muscular strength and hypertrophy
• The data and evidence on BCAAs: the early rodent data vs human studies
• The many important factors that may influence findings on this topic
• From science to practice: summaries and conclusions

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Key Paper(s) Discussed / Referred to:

• Isolated Leucine and Branched-Chain Amino Acid Supplementation for Enhancing Muscular Strength and Hypertrophy: A Narrative Review
• Branched-Chain Amino Acid Ingestion Stimulates Muscle Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis following Resistance Exercise in Humans

Related Podcast Episodes:

• #153 - "Muscle Protein Synthesis and Response to Exercise & Nutrition" with Professor Kevin Tipton
• #150 - "Muscle Protein Breakdown in Response to Nutrition and Exercise" with Professor Kevin Tipton
• #103 - 'Hypertrophy & Individual Differences in Response to Training' with Brandon Roberts PhD
• #101 - 'S&C Science, Muscle Plasticity, and Practice Epistemology' with Andy Galpin PhD
• #42 - 'Mechanisms of Muscle Hypertrophy' with Brad Schoenfeld PhD

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