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Lean Pork Burgers Boost Muscle Growth Over High-Fat Options
9/28/2025
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Story summary
- Lean pork burgers, with equal protein to high-fat burgers, yielded higher muscle-protein synthesis after exercise in 16 adults.
- Blood amino acid levels rose more after lean pork than after high-fat pork.
- Prior work suggests whole foods may better stimulate protein synthesis than processed foods.
- Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and funded by the National Pork Board.
