A man in a MYP T-shirt speaks to the camera

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Everyone knows that protein is made from amino acids right of the 20 amino acids, nine are essential, meaning we can't make them from other amino acids in our bodies. And we have to get them from our diet of those three are called branched chain amino acids. Because of their branched carbon structure, those amino acids are varying isoleucine. And the most well known Lucy, people know that Protein is essential for building muscle. But people don't actually know why think of your body as a building that has two processes going on at the same time building up and tearing down. If you want to maintain the building, you need to keep the two processes in balance. If you don't do as much building up compared to tearing down, the building gets smaller, think of your muscles shrinking. On the other hand, if you do more building off the normal, the building or your muscles get bigger over time. This building up process is called muscle protein synthesis. And the tearing down process is called muscle protein breakdown. Both happen all the time in our bodies. But there are a couple of things that we can do to stimulate muscle protein synthesis. The first is exercise, especially resistance exercise. This is the most important signal for starting muscle protein synthesis. Think of it as opening the gates of a construction site without a signal from exercise. Muscle growth doesn't really happen. The other way we can increase MPs is by eating protein. soy foods like whey protein that are high in BCAAs are really useful for stimulating muscle growth, especially after exercise.