Reduced muscular fatigue after a 12-week leucine-rich amino acid supplementation

Age-related muscle loss is characterised by a progressing decrease in muscle mass, strength and function. Besides resistance training and physical activity, appropriate nutrition that is rich in protein, especially branched-chain amino acids, is very important to support training effects and positively influence the protein synthesis to degradation ratio. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a 12-week leucine-rich amino acid supplementation in combination with moderate training.

Claudia A Reule, Claudia Scholz, Christiane Schoen, Niklas Brown, Anne Siepelmeyer, Wilfried W Alt