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Resistance training mitigates the diminishing returns of high protein intake (>1.3 g/kg/day) on lean body mass gains.

If you are eating more than 1.3 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight, you should be doing resistance training. Without training, your body becomes less efficient at turning that extra protein into muscle. Training keeps the 'bang for your buck' high even when you eat a lot of protein.

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the rate of increase in the effect of protein supplementation rapidly diminishes when total protein intake exceeds 1.3 g/kg BW/day... Interestingly, this decline is markedly suppressed by RT
Ryoichi Tagawa et al. · medRxiv · 2020

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Derived from subgroup analysis of the same large meta-analysis.

Source

Dose-response relationship between protein intake and muscle mass increase: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Ryoichi Tagawa et al. · medRxiv · 2020

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