The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
The third little detail, well, it's got the highest cost of metabolism, or cost of processing within the body, so it's the most energetically, or calorically, expensive macronutrient to process within the body, so it has a higher so-called thermic effect.
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we knew that protein had a higher thermogenic effect burns more calories more heat than either carb or fat so we wanted to frontload that effect people have argued that well that's because protein or the nitrogen it's harder to digest and absorb we don't think that's true at all we think the thermogenic effect is stimulating muscle protein synthesis we know that that is a massive ATP expenditure
we knew that protein had a higher thermogenic effect burns more calories more heat than either carb or fat so we wanted to frontload that effect people have argued that well that's because protein of the nitrogen it's harder to digest and absorb we don't think that's true at all we think the thermogenic effect is stimulating muscle protein synthesis we know that that is a massive ATP expenditure