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What is the actual Leucine threshold?

Some say 2.5g and some say 4g, and anything in between. 2.5g of leucine vs 4g of leucine is a very big difference in terms of meal portion if one tries to meet that for every meal

Answer

It probably doesn’t matter? 🤷‍♂️

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Relation-between-increase-in-human-MPS-and-plasma-leucine-concentration-during-infusion_fig2_7405711

I.e., diminishing returns. Consistency is probably more important than perfection.