Impact of Vegan Diets on Resistance Exercise-Mediated Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis in Healthy Young Males and Females: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Andrew T. Askow et al.
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2025
What the research tells us
The abstract reports no significant difference in integrated myofibrillar protein synthesis between the tested vegan/omnivorous diets or balanced/unbalanced protein distributions over nine days. This supplies a useful counterpoint to single-day meal-distribution experiments.
Scope & interpretation
The available abstract supports the stated design and broad result, not a full appraisal of adherence, precision, adverse events or funding. A nonsignificant result is not an equivalence test, and nine-day synthesis is not long-term muscle growth.
Study at a glance
- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- 40 healthy, physically active young adults: 28 men and 12 women; mean age 25 years.
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- Weight-maintenance diets supplying 1.1–1.2 g/kg/day: omnivorous or vegan; three meals distributed 10/30/60% versus five occasions at 20% each; resistance exercise during the feeding period.
- OUTCOMES
- Integrated myofibrillar protein synthesis assessed using deuterated water and muscle samples.
- TIME FRAME
- Nine days.
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