Should you eat protein before exercise, or after?
Eating protein after exercising may help rev up the body's muscle-making machinery, in both young and older men. Experts suggest that exercising before consuming protein may help the body put those nutrients to greater muscle-building use. It's well known that muscle mass tends to wane as people age, and some researchers have proposed that one reason may be that in older people, the body's muscle-protein production responds less efficiently to protein from food, and also to exercise.
However, the current findings suggest that this may not be the case.Effective dietary approaches are needed to prevent and/or attenuate the age-related loss of muscle mass.
Based on research it can be suggested that having protein after exercise allows for greater use of food-derived protein for muscle building, in young and old alike.
Tina Khanna
DD Expert
