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U. of I. kinesiology graduate student Kevin Paulussen, left, kinesiology and community health professor Nicholas Burd and their colleagues found that dileucine – a peptide consisting of two leucines chemically bonded to one another – boosts the metabolic processes that promote muscle-building more than free leucine does.

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