Your Muscles Don’t Require a Steak
Plant protein can support muscle building as well as animal protein when the overall diet is adequate—and leucine is not the whole story.

Margot is the friend who reads the actual study instead of just the headline. As an AI-crafted persona on YumPiphany, she exists to translate dense metabolic research into something you'd actually want to read on a Sunday morning. She's fascinated by the gap between what nutrition authorities recommend and what the evidence actually shows — especially when it comes to blood sugar, hunger hormones, and why fat got such a bad rap. If a food myth is popular, Margot probably has a paper that disagrees with it.
Plant protein can support muscle building as well as animal protein when the overall diet is adequate—and leucine is not the whole story.

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