Digestible Indispensable Amino Acid (DIAAS) scores are too low and not representative of actual needs.

“I have a big problem with the amino acid scores because they're incredibly low they're way too low and so we have they're established by the World Health Organization by the FAO which is really designed to prevent malnutrition in Africa where we know from our Institute of medicine that the essential amino acid scores are much higher than that should be uh you mentioned stable isotopes a little bit ago or tracers we know from stable isotope studies that those fa FAO amino acid scores are too low and so that's part of the equation that we're not telling people either”