Are you daft old man? Of course I'm lazy, that's why I made the thread. So you think this study is adequate proof that I should start eating 4 meals a day rather than 1, even though you have no clue what the actual impact is in the difference between those two things other than one isn't optimal. You might not be very smart but at least you know how to make me laugh.

You literally said "Before you read a research paper you read the abstract to see if it's worth reading the full study. Listed in the abstract is the conclusion. They concluded eating a minimum of 4 meals a day at a protein intake of 0.4 g/kg/meal was required to reach "maximum anabolism" which tells us absolutely nothing."

From what you literally just said, and the fact that you still haven't read the paper, tells me that based on the abstract you have deemed the paper to be not worthy of reading.

If it wasn't clear (again read the damn paper, it's only a few pages long, it's not anyone's job to spoon feed you basic English), this paper is a review of the literature on protein intake, so of course it compares data from all relevant studies relating to protein induced MPS, and even criticises studies that weren't done on resistance trained participants.

Personal attacks based on illogical conclusions. Extremely weak rebuttal

You're as poor at intelligent discourse as you likely are at building muscleYou also failed to answer these. I was really looking forward to that.

This investigates the difference between max and average although I'm not 100% convinced why I should be replying because you seem like a whiny little bish who can't even read an article so why would you apply whatever you've learned from this thread in your daily life is a question that will remain unanswered.

Effects of meal frequency on weight loss and body
composition: a meta-analysis

Although the initial results of the present meta-analysis
suggest a potential benefit of increased feeding frequencies
for enhancing body composition, these findings
need to be interpreted with circumspection. The positive
relationship between the number of meals consumed
and improvements in body composition were
largely attributed to the results of a single study, calling
into question the veracity of results. Moreover, the
small difference in magnitude of effect between frequencies
suggests that any potential benefits, if they exist
at all, have limited practical significance. Given that
adherence is of primary concern with respect to nutritional
prescription, the number of daily meals consumed
should come down to personal choice if one’s
goal is to improve body composition.
There is emerging evidence that an irregular eating
pattern can have negative metabolic effects, at least in
the absence of formal exercise.71,72 This gives credence
to the hypothesis that it may be beneficial to stay consistent
with a given meal frequency throughout the week

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6a5...8c07875eab.pdf

I shouldn't even be pointing this out but the authors are the same as the study quoted before me by guys who are literally and figuratively the best researchers in hypertrophy at this moment and have been for a while.