Rhonda Patrick· PhD
he was talking about, with the protein requirements, like, the buy-in being more like, you know, just to get, like, at least 1.2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight.
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he was talking about, with the protein requirements, like, the buy-in being more like, you know, just to get, like, at least 1.2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight.
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studies that have been done by experts like Dr Stuart Phillips at McMaster University uh and others have shown so the the way that that RDA was 40 years ago uh set was it was flawed um in terms of like the techniques that they used they're called nitrogen balance studies they underestimated the amino acid losses and so here we are 40 years later scientists have more sensitive tools we have a lot more at our disposal and they're saying no actually we redid these studies and we found it's more like 1.2 Gams of protein per kilogram of body weight as the bare minimum to just basically be able to uh not be pulling amino acids from our muscle right