Your Guide to Protein Powder: Lose Weight, Build Muscle, Age Better
How to figure out the amount of protein you need and decode protein-powder labels to hit your goals.
By K. Aleisha Fetters, Contributor | March 10, 2017, at 3:01 p.m.
If you know anything about protein powder, it’s probably that bodybuilders love it. You wouldn’t be wrong: Protein is vital to building muscle.
But protein and protein powder are good for so much more – improving exercise recovery, promoting weight loss, staying strong into old age and, according to a 2013 review in Nutrition & Metabolism, decreasing inflammation and improving metabolic health to potentially reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
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