{"id":6222,"date":"2020-07-31T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T11:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2020-08-27T01:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T01:19:25","slug":"soy-and-wheat-proteins-helpful-for-building-aging-muscles-but-not-as-potent-as-animal-protein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/soy-and-wheat-proteins-helpful-for-building-aging-muscles-but-not-as-potent-as-animal-protein\/","title":{"rendered":"Soy and wheat proteins helpful for building aging muscles, but not as potent as animal protein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On a gram for gram basis, animal proteins are more effective than plant proteins in supporting the maintenance of skeletal muscle mass with advancing age, shows a new research.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of vegans in the UK has quadrupled since 2006, meaning that there are around 600,000 vegans in Great Britain. While we know plant-based diets are beneficial for the environment, we don\u2019t actually know how healthy these diets are for keeping muscles strong in elderly people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists generally agree that the primary driver of muscle loss with age \u2014 at least in healthy individuals \u2014 is a reduction of muscle proteins being built from amino acids. These amino acids come from protein that we eat and are also formed when we exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oliver Witard of King\u2019s College London is presenting research at The Physiological Society\u2019s Future Physiology 2020 conference about soy and wheat proteins showing that a larger dose of these plant proteins is required to achieve a comparable response of building muscles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simply transitioning from an animal-based protein diet to a plant-based diet, without adjusting total protein intake, will likely to be detrimental to muscle health during aging. A more balanced and less extreme approach to changing dietary behavior, meaning eating both animal and plant-based proteins, is best.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These meals are examples of vegetarian meals that help build muscle proteins because they consist of a complementary and complete profile of all essential amino acids. <\/em>
Photo credit: Anita Bean<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Witard and his colleagues conducted carefully controlled laboratory studies in human volunteers that involve the ingestion of plant compared with animal-based protein sources. To test changes in participants\u2019 muscles, they use several techniques including stable isotope methodology,  blood sampling, and skeletal muscle biopsies to see how quickly the muscles were building up from amino acids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s important to note that this research to date has only compared two plant-based protein sources, namely soy and wheat. The researchers in this field will be conducting further research on other promising plant proteins such as oat, quinoa and maize.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting on the research, Oliver Witard said: \u201cThis research challenges the broad viewpoint that plant proteins don\u2019t help build muscles as much as animal protein by highlighting the potential of alternative plant-based protein sources to maintain the size and quality of aging muscles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simply transitioning from an animal-based protein diet to a plant-based diet, without adjusting total protein intake, will likely to be detrimental to muscle health during aging. A more balanced and less extreme approach to changing dietary behavior, meaning eating both animal and plant-based proteins, is best. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,919,380,102],"class_list":["post-6222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-vegetarian","tag-vegetarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6260,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions\/6260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}