Mon, Aug-05-19, 15:36
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Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ6xtn1aiP0
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Why 36 eggs is Better than a Steroid Cycle. The 3 Dozen Eggs a Day Diet by Vince Gironda
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Maybe this one's a bit over the top. 
But a better claim to being the 'ideal' protein by far.
And eggs makes me thing of this;
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Background. Age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia) is a prevalent condition associated with disability and mortality. Exercise and optimal nutrition are interventions to prevent and treat sarcopenia, yet little is known, outside of protein, of the effect of common nutrition recommendations and medication use on exercise-related muscle gain.
Methods. Forty-nine community-dwelling, 60- to 69-year-old men and women completed 2 weeks of nutrition education (American Dietetic Association recommendations) followed by 12 weeks of high intensity resistance exercise training (RET) with postexercise protein supplementation and 3×/wk dietary logs.
Results. We observed a dose-response relationship between dietary cholesterol (from food logs) and gains in lean mass that was not affected by variability in protein intake. Serum cholesterol and the serum cholesterol lowering agent statin were also independently associated with greater increases in lean mass. Dietary cholesterol was not associated with serum cholesterol or the significant reduction in blood pressure observed, but trends were observed for altered plasma C-reactive protein.
Conclusion. These data suggest that dietary and serum cholesterol contribute to the skeletal muscles' response to RET in this generally healthy older population and that some statins may improve this response.
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The authors don't seem overly fond of statins. They suggest that if they increase lean muscle mass with weight training, it might be because the statins make it easier to damage the muscles and get a training effect... sort of a hormetic thing. But when they break down diet versus statin intake, you can see that while there's an increase in lean mass at higher dietary cholesterol with or without statins, there's a greater increase with higher dietary cholesterol and statin intake. Also--sometimes a stronger effect of weight training might be seen if something is causing strength and/or lean mass in the previously sedentary individuals to be less than it could be. So there's the question of just how sarcopenic people were going in, given differences in normal uncompromised muscle mass from person to person, maybe hard to judge.
https://academic.oup.com/biomedgero.../10/1164/568431
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