Research has found that vegan diets during weight training do not impact muscle building. It concluded that following plant- or animal-based diets made no difference in muscle protein synthesis. “The longstanding belief or the current dogma was that animal-based protein sources were better, particularly for the muscle-building response,” comments Nicholas Burd, a professor of health and kinesiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US, who led the new study with graduate student Andrew Askow.
