Peter Attia· MD
The major source of our amino acid storage tank, so to speak, is our muscle, skeletal muscle tissue. And you don't want to be pulling from that skeletal muscle tissue to get amino acids every day.
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The major source of our amino acid storage tank, so to speak, is our muscle, skeletal muscle tissue. And you don't want to be pulling from that skeletal muscle tissue to get amino acids every day.
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I mean protein you have the three amino acid pool but it's very very very small it's not what I would consider a storage form of protein at all and uh some people will say well you know skull muscle is a storage form of protein that's like saying you build a house and it's a storage form of wood yeah I guess you can tear the house down and get wood out of it but that's not why you build the house you know