The original post: /r/askscience by /u/Own_Breakfast4451 on 2024-10-02 09:46:51.

So proteins are amino acids, but if you take bcaas or eaas, you won’t build muscle, so surely there’s something else in a protein that actually creates muscle?

My bicep isn’t made entirely of valine for example, or any other amino acid, they are their own cells, but I want to understand how it is actually made and not “the body uses vitamins and proteins to build muscle.”… It seems to me like there is ALOT more than that and I can’t seem to dig anything up on Google other than the quote I mentioned.