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 · Most Replayed Moment: The Truth About Protein Intake and The Simplest Way To Lose Fat · 27 Mar 2026 podcast

Okay, so we're going to apply you to the population and the goal and the stakes questions.

So what would you say your training status is?

You're obviously not a beginner, right?

So you're somewhere between intermediate and advanced, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

The way that I do it is I go 1.6 to 2.2 grams per kilogram of target body weight or goal body weight.

So that's the range that you would be looking at.

Now, with you in particular...

I would go more towards the upper end.

Because you mentioned that part of your goal is to decrease body fat to a minor degree, but still you're pushing the envelope because you're already lean.

So there's an interesting thing about high-balling protein that facilitates –

reduction in body fat.

So if I have a lot of protein, it helps to reduce body fat?

Yeah.

Yeah, it does.

And the way that we know this is because there have been several studies now, four trials, one case study by Joey Antonio and colleagues, and they found

examined the effect of very high protein intakes, anywhere from about 3.3 all the way to 4.4 grams per kilogram of body weight.

Roughly, gosh, you know,

Yeah, that's right.

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