SOURCE-LINKED STUDY SUMMARY
Impact of different protein sources on acute muscle protein synthesis following resistance training: a systematic review with standard and dose-response network meta-analyses.
Abstract summarizedQuality not appraised
- What was studied
- A network meta-analysis compared protein sources for acute muscle protein synthesis.
- Who / model studied
- 51 trials in healthy adults after resistance exercise.
- Studied dose & schedule
- Single protein boluses; sources and doses varied. Hourly synthesis was measured with tracers and biopsies.
- What the study found
- Several plant and animal proteins ranked highly. Only whey showed a statistically significant effect in the reported network estimates; rankings alone did not identify a definitive winner.
- Limitations & context
- Low-to-moderate certainty and sparse evidence for some sources. Acute synthesis is not long-term hypertrophy. The abstract did not clearly identify the numerical reference comparator, so no numerical superiority claim is made.
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Original publication ↗ · DOI: 10.1080/15502783.2026.2740224