Supplements

josephJJRryan

I know good nutrition is far more important than supplements. Anyways I have surgery and will be unable to train for 6-8 weeks. Are there any supplement that I can buy as a back up to nutrition, or as a main source that will help me preserve as much muscle as possible?

eeejer

whey protein (assuming you can't eat enough from food)? Basically you need to hit your protein macro.

StealthHealth

Whilst protein is good for building new and repairing existing muscle, I think that without a muscle stimulus (exercise) the macro breakdown of your diet is going to be much, much less important than the calorific value in muscle sparing.

In other words, if you eat at maintenance* levels, a high proportion of protein is not going to spare muscle if you are inactive for a significant period of time.

But, what a good diet with plenty of protein may do, is aid your recovery from the surgery.

* you should expect you maintenance levels to be up slightly, even though you may be more inactive, due to your body having to repair and recover from the surgery.

eeejer

StealthHealth wrote: »

Whilst protein is good for building new and repairing existing muscle, I think that without a muscle stimulus (exercise) the macro breakdown of your diet is going to be much, much less important than the calorific value in muscle sparing.

In other words, if you eat at maintenance* levels, a high proportion of protein is not going to spare muscle if you are inactive for a significant period of time.

But, what a good diet with plenty of protein may do, is aid your recovery from the surgery.

* you should expect you maintenance levels to be up slightly, even though you may be more inactive, due to your body having to repair and recover from the surgery.

even sedentary people need a certain amount of protein to prevent excessive LBM loss. http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-fundamentals-of-fat-loss-diets-part-2.html/

StealthHealth

Interesting. Thanks for that.