Low energy availability reduces myofibrillar and sarcoplasmic muscle protein synthesis in trained females
Mikkel Oxfeldt · Stuart M. Phillips · Ole Emil Andersen · Frank Ted Johansen · Maj Bangshaab · Jeyanthini Risikesan · James McKendry · Anna Katarina Melin · Mette Hansen
The Journal of Physiology · 2023
What the research tells us
Lower energy availability reduced integrated muscle protein synthesis.
Scope & interpretation
Short, controlled exposure in trained women; protein synthesis is not a whole-body recovery outcome.
Study at a glance
- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- 30 trained, eumenorrheic women randomized.
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- Provided diets with lower versus adequate energy availability; standardized training and matched protein provision.
- OUTCOMES
- Integrated myofibrillar and sarcoplasmic protein synthesis.
- TIME FRAME
- Ten intervention days after a five-day run-in.
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- Study funding
- Aarhus University Faculty of Health, Danish Ministry of Culture and Team Danmark; J. McKendry held a CIHR postdoctoral fellowship.
- Competing interests
- S. M. Phillips disclosed grants/contracts from US National Dairy Council, CIHR, Dairy Farmers of Canada, Roquette Freres, Ontario Centre of Innovation, Nestle Health Sciences, Myos, NSERC, Friesland Campina and US NIH; Nestle personal fees and Enhanced Recovery non-financial support outside this work; Exerkine-licensed patents without reported financial gains.
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Founded and supported by Resilio.
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