EAA supplement dosage
As usual, there is a wide range of studies on this subject. The experimental designs are different, the subjects' backgrounds vary, the dosage and timing change, just to name a few. However, in this post I will try to summarize and generalize the recommended dosage amounts for essential amino acids (EAA) taken as a supplement. So, there are nine of these: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine. The necessity of all these has been known for about 100 years (Bradford &; Schmidt, 1931). In young adults of normal weight, negative energy deficit usually causes loss of muscle mass, i.e. catabolism (Murphy et al. 2018, Friedl et al. 1994), but e.g. Volpi et al. (1998) have shown that ingestion of EAA could reduce muscle catabolism. As a mechanism of action, it has been suggested that during energy deficiency it would improve muscle protein synthesis, i.e. protein building (Carbone et al., 2019). So what amount wou...