Alan Aragon

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1,513 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 27 Mar

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Fat Burning Expert: The Real Reason You Can’t Lose Weight! PCOS, Menopause & Stubborn Belly Fat · 25 Aug 2025 podcast

And we can always ratchet it up if needed.

It's rare.

You would have to have a preexisting chronic kidney disease, and then it's generally not a good thing to be highballing the protein.

But even people with chronic kidney disease have to realize the trade-off that they're incurring with a low protein diet and older age sarcopenia and stuff.

How are they going to mitigate that?

But for the general healthy population,

There have been many studies that have rolled out looking at effects on kidney function, liver function, bone health.

And there is virtually zero threat to those organ systems that you would think might be threatened by a high protein intake.

So the human organism...

perfectly well equipped to metabolize and handle high protein amounts.

I think that the best thing you can do is get a mix of different types of protein.

It is true that gram for gram,

Generally speaking, animal proteins are more, in quotes, anabolic than plant proteins, meaning that they stimulate a greater growth response at the muscle level.

So they stimulate muscle protein synthesis more potently than plant proteins.

And...

There's maybe one exception to that that we know of, which is mycoprotein, which is a fungus-based protein that actually outperformed milk protein for stimulating muscle protein synthesis.

So there's interesting exceptions like that.

But generally speaking, animal proteins are better for muscle protein synthesis than plant proteins.

Now, with that said, Stephen, once you consume a certain amount of total daily protein, you

then it doesn't appear to matter how much of your protein is animal-based versus how much your protein is plant-based if we're looking at things like muscle size and strength gain, because this has been actually compared in controlled interventions where vegan group has been compared with an omnivore group.

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