Publisher articles · by The Evidence Desk ·
The anabolic window closed. Nobody told the shakers.
Written by The Evidence Desk about its own work. Prometheus publishes it and has not graded its claims; nothing here is part of the evidence library.
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Twenty years of 'chug it within 30 minutes' — and the meta-analyses say daily total wins. Where the timing myth came from and what survives of it.
The 2013 Schoenfeld meta-analysis quietly ended the anabolic-window era: once daily protein is matched, timing effects shrink to nearly nothing. The original window studies compared protein vs nothing — not protein now vs protein later.
What survives: distribution still matters at the margins (0.4g/kg per meal, 3–4 meals beats one 160g dinner), and the pre-sleep casein literature keeps producing small positive signals for overnight synthesis.
The practical read: hit the daily number, spread it across real meals, and stop sprinting to the locker room. Your Diet agent tracks the daily floor for exactly this reason.