The MPS cycle has an absolute refractory period of ~3hrs for a normal mixed meal. Anytime after that you're good for the most part.
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Eating Within the 3-5 Hour Mark
It's my understanding from reading your blog and posts on here that an MPS cycle takes 3-5 hours once it is started. How does one know how long it is actually taking? i.e. If one of my MPS cycles lasts 5 hours and I eat at the 4 hour mark, what happens? Does MPS start again or is the protein stored? Same if I eat at 3 hours but MPS takes 4 or 5 hours? I try to eat at the 4 hour mark to be right in the middle, but sometimes I have to eat around 3 hours, thus my question. Thanks in advance!
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The MPS cycle has an absolute refractory period of ~3hrs for a normal mixed meal. Anytime after that you're good for the most part.
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Ok, I had a feeling I was over-complicating things. Thanks for the clarification.Originally Posted by Jordan Feigenbaum
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Just curious what the metric used to measure this is?
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To measure what? Fractional protein synthesis rate?
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Yes. What changes, that we can measure, that lets us know when it has started and stopped?
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The most widely used analysis uses radiolabeled amino acids taken by mouth to see their incorporation into muscle tissue and their traveling to the liver for breakdown/metabolism. From this you can tease out the muscle protein synthetic rate and muscle protein breakdown rate to yield a net "fractional synthesis rate".
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https://youtu.be/epNptdA4bFA?t=3m35s
So kinda like this?
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To a T.
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