Protein distribution across multiple meals may be more effective than a single large meal for stimulating muscle protein synthesis in older adults.

“I think that as long as you're eating the protein within 30 minutes or 40 minutes within a meal you'll be fine”

“I believe that we are undereating dietary protein”

“we think that's a significant aspect of Aging that people have lower and lower protein they don't eat protein at breakfast”

“Most adults tend to skew their protein intake heavily toward their evening meal with dinner having up to 3x the amount of protein as the first two meals of the day. This pattern can be especially problematic for older adults, who need a substantial amount of protein at each meal to effectively stimulate muscle protein synthesis. They might only get enough protein to maximize this process during their evening meal, limiting muscle growth opportunities to just once a day.”

“Older adults tend to diminish their daily protein intake by eating less protein in the morning and this is a cause of decline in protein intake as we age”

“But I do think that older people particularly, instead of having the skewed distribution, could stand to, sort of, have a more even distribution throughout the day.”

“in terms of like how are people typically Distributing their protein amongst their meals and I think probably it's very similar to what's found in Europe where people are eating the majority of their protein is skewed towards their evening meal their last meal of the day and um in in in most cases at least with respect to this anhan data it's about three times the amount of protein in their in their evening meal versus their morning meal or even their afternoon meal”

“and that's also where you kind of start to see protein distribution probably matter a little bit more when you get into older age where if you're getting you know three meals where you're stimulating muscle protein synthesis versus um you know just one big meal”