Current Recommended Dietary Allowances for protein are minimums to prevent deficiency and are based on nitrogen balance studies typically using young men.

“the current recommendations are the minimum to prevent a deficiency the way in which diets are designed now according to the RDA is 8 grams per kg8 gram of protein per kilogram of body weight which comes out toal body weight yes which comes out to be 37 G per pound so if someone was 115 PB female that current RDA would be 45 grams of protein way below what we talked about earlier and this is these are very important Concepts to understand the foundations of how we think about dietary protein the current RDA which is a minimum to prevent a deficiency is based on nitrogen balance nitrogen balance”