BCAAs - For Fasting or Cutting?

A main reason why people advocate for taking BCAAs is to preserve lean mass while restricting calories or fasting. But is there actually any research showing that to be true? Let's take a closer to look in the world of BCAA research and see if we can find any evidence backing up the claim.

Thank you to Brad Dieter, Brad Schoenfeld, and Alan Aragon for their critique of the first referenced study. Helped a lot to depict the issues with the study.
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Sources:
https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-016-0128-9#
https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-017-0184-9
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25429252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28444456
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2015.00245/full
http://sci-hub.cc/10.1113/jphysiol.2012.228833
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15930475
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24655485
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16365096

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