The Environmental Costs of Building Human Muscle
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Official title
The Environmental Costs of Building Human Muscle - A Comparison of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Water Use and Land Use Between Plant-Based and Omnivorous Diets Following Sports Nutrition Protein Recommendations for Muscle Mass Accrual
Brief summary
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Among the general population, it has been established that plant-based diets confer significant environmental benefits (greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and water use) compared to omnivorous diets. However, sports nutrition recommendations for supporting resistance exercise-induced gains in muscle mass and strength differ substantially from population-level recommendations, especially for protein intake. Therefore the difference in environmental impact between omnivorous and plant-based diets for adults following such recommendations is as yet unknown. A prior analysis found that a high-protein, non-animal-derived diet can support resistance training-induced gains in muscle mass and strength to the same extent as a protein-matched omnivorous diet. These findings align with previous research showing that, in the context of a high-protein diet, the source of protein - whether animal or plant-based - does not affect the rate of resistance exercise-induced gains in muscle mass and strength. The present study therefore plans to retrospectively analyze the diet records from previously published research to determine the difference in environmental impact between the high protein animal-free and omnivorous diets. The findings could highlight the unique difference in environmental impacts between those following high protein plant-based and omnivorous diets.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT06733857
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 22 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 40 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Apr 30, 2018
- Primary completion
- Feb 29, 2020
- Completion
- Feb 29, 2020
- Last update posted
- Dec 12, 2024
2018 – 2020
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game Changers Institute | Laguna Niguel | California | 92677 | — |
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- Last update posted Dec 12, 2024 · Synced Sep 2, 2026
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