When viewed in these terms, muscle gain and muscle loss are the result of periods where protein
synthesis rates exceed protein breakdown rates, and vice versa, respectively.
Not exact matches
Now, if you go into a workout several hours after eating, you're letting that machinery remain inactive even longer, and if you wait too long to eat after the workout, breakdown
rates will
exceed synthesis rates, which results in muscle loss.
For an infant the
rate of protein
synthesis far
exceeds the
rate of protein degradation thus the infant is in a state of rapid growth.
«A net gain in protein balance (i.e.,
synthesis minus breakdown) is called an anabolic response, as opposed to a catabolic response caused by the
rate of protein breakdown
exceeding the
rate of protein
synthesis.