Performance Nutrition Digest

Performance Nutrition Digest

Building 1 kg of muscle may cost ~3,500 kcal πŸ’ͺπŸ”₯

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Tom Coughlin
Aug 28, 2026
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The Energetic Cost of Building Human Skeletal Muscle

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This paper developed a bottom-up model to estimate the energetic cost of building 1 kg of wet human skeletal muscle, including tissue energy, synthesis, deposition, maintenance and …

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