Soy and Anabolism

Posted by Chantel M. Contributed by US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

According to the study of `Dietary protein to support anabolism with resistance exercise in young men`by Phillips SM, Hartman JW, Wilkinson SB., posted in US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, researchers found that If our acute findings are accurate then we hypothesized that chronically the greater net protein deposition associated with milk protein consumption post-resistance exercise would eventually lead to greater net protein accretion (i.e., muscle fiber hypertrophy), over a longer time period. In young men completing 12 weeks of resistance training (5d/wk) we observed a tendency (P = 0.11) for greater gains in whole body lean mass and whole as greater muscle fiber hypertrophy with consumption of milk. While strength gains were not different between the soy and milk-supplemented groups we would argue that the true significance of a greater increase in lean mass that we observed with milk consumption may be more important in groups of persons with lower initial lean mass and strength such as the elderly.