The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
I think for most people, it's not that big a deal. There's also the timing with respect to exercise, and I lived through that craze, not as big a deal as we once thought. So it's really about the total amount of protein you're going to get in the day. And then the next one would be, you know, even spacing, and I'd say, yeah.
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as a practical takeaway a more evenly distributed pattern of protein intake throughout the day is probably what we should be striving for but evidence like this highlights why more and more experts seem to be aligning on the simple fact that the vast majority of us athletes or not should be thinking about protein intake from the standpoint of total daily intake with less overall focus on factors like timing or the per meal intake
in short the answer to both of these is that factors are less important overall than you might expect emerging evidence reveals that the body can effectively utilize even very large protein doses this challenges the notion that protein must be meticulously spread over multiple meals to maximize muscle protein synthesis even though an even daily protein distri distribution is ideal this doesn't mean that consuming the same total amount of protein in fewer high protein meals is ineffective