Cycling females should aim for a minimum amount of protein even during the luteal phase.

“females, depending upon where you're at in your cycle, you want to modulate uh with in the first part of your cycle, your uh uh your lower protein. It's at what is that one point 1.5? Yeah, 1.5. And then post it's around 2 g per kilogram of weight on the second. When you ovulate, those two weeks following before you get your period increase to 2 g per kilogram um of body weight specifically because your estrogen drops. You're at risk of muscle mass decrease. And so you want to maintain that.”

“try to get the minimum amount of protein even in the luteal phase of your cycle if you are a cycling female”

“Look, right after your ovulation, this is actually a time to pay even more attention to protein intake because of this reduced MPS. Absolutely. Especially with an aging muscle. So, a young female muscle and male muscle is resilient. uh but uh absolutely if we're into our 40s 50s based on uh some of the science around anabolic resistance and obviously the the hormones change differently in that time frame but yes uh in that ludial phase it could help with soreness recovery um a number of components injury prevention”