You can imagine one little worker picking up some bricks and cement, hauling them over and getting to work building this brick wall. Well, that one little worker, he is the mTOR pathway. He controls how fast muscle protein synthesis occurs.
But what a lot of us do to speed up muscle protein synthesis is to eat more protein, or use a digestive enzyme to increase protein bioavailability.
But that’s like trying to speed up this brick wall by adding more bricks and more cement. Sure, that one worker will never run out of bricks and cement, but he’s still going to work at the same speed.
But if you can increase mTOR, it’s like having two or three other workers helping to build the wall much faster.