{"id":1273,"date":"2025-11-21T06:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:36:43","slug":"protein-builds-strength-creatine-boosts-speed-new-study-ranks-supplements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/protein-builds-strength-creatine-boosts-speed-new-study-ranks-supplements\/","title":{"rendered":"Protein Builds Strength, Creatine Boosts Speed: New Study Ranks Supplements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new systematic review and network meta-analysis of 35 randomized controlled trials (991 athletes) reveals that not all popular supplements deliver on their performance promises. Researchers compared protein, creatine, \u03b2-alanine, HMB, caffeine, vitamin D, and others to evaluate their impact on strength, speed, and power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings highlight protein as the most effective option for building muscular strength, while \u03b2-alanine and creatine both enhanced jump performance\u2014with \u03b2-alanine holding a slight edge. Creatine stood out for improving sprint speed, but neither it nor any other supplement produced meaningful gains in lean body mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/nutrition\/articles\/10.3389\/fnut.2025.1636970\/full\">https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/nutrition\/articles\/10.3389\/fnut.2025.1636970\/full<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new systematic review and network meta-analysis of 35 randomized controlled trials (991 athletes) reveals that not all popular supplements deliver on their performance promises. Researchers compared protein, creatine, \u03b2-alanine, HMB, caffeine, vitamin D, and others to evaluate their impact on strength, speed, and power. The findings highlight protein as the most effective option for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}