Alan Aragon

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ZOE Science & Nutrition · Most replayed moment: The surprising science of weight loss | Alan Aragon & Professor Sarah Berry · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

So I have certainly a biased interest in protein.

So the amount of protein that people consume per day that is optimal has been a matter of debate without overcomplicating it.

In the general public, 1.2 to 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight is a fair and realistic protein target for the general population.

But I think that that is just kind of a good starting point.

I really think you start getting into optimal and helpful for fat loss and lean mass preservation once you get to the 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight and in imperial terms, that's 0.7 grams per pound.

If you fall somewhere between

1.2 on the low end, I'd rather see people do 1.6 all the way up to 2.2 grams per kilogram of body weight.

So about 0.7 to one whole gram per pound of body weight is really sort of the sweet spot for the goal of weight loss or fat loss.

Exercise is similar to food in the sense that you have to find the type of exercise that you actually enjoy and even look forward to.

That's the way to get compliance.

So as we get older,

we just lose our functional capability muscularly because we just sit around and barely move.

And for people who have really no clue as to how to engage like any sort of resistance training program, then you can just think of three basic things

movement in any variation of the planes.

Push, pull, squat.

Those three movements.

If you can engage those through, you know,

a progressive amount of volume over time, and you become familiar with how to apply effort to various movements within a simple pull, push and squat type of thing, then there are ways to do full body training sessions.

There are ways to do split sessions where you might do upper body one day, the next day you do lower body, and then you repeat that cycle again through the week.

And then you have other splits yet where you're doing some variation of either the three times full body or the upper lower split plus some specialization on a lagging body part.

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