Bryan Johnson· Author
So the a lot of you know the quoteunquote official recommendation of uh protein intake is uh 0.8 8 gram per uh kilogram of body weight which is too low.
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So the a lot of you know the quoteunquote official recommendation of uh protein intake is uh 0.8 8 gram per uh kilogram of body weight which is too low.
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And Stuart talked a little bit about, like, some of the flaws in the early studies that were done to calculate that. And I'm just, like, wondering when is it time to reassess this, you know, and change it?
the recommended daily allowance the RDA was this is set by these communities and there's lots of things involved in that but to simplify um about you know 40 years ago this RDA was set and it was set to be 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram body weight and that was thought to be the amount that you needed to take in every day to not to minimize um the amino acid losses from muscle right to replace all your amino acids to be able to to enough protein right well turns out
and the assumption is if you're in a neutral balance it's good and if you actually give a low protein diet you go down to 66 then you actually can stay in most people actually stay in a neutral balance and then they suggested with some leverage on top we actually get to the8 gam but that is I regard that as a minimal requirement to stay in balance on the diet that has been provided for 1 to two weeks