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

Yeah, if you're a woman, you would almost always start at the low end because women have a higher proportion of body fat.

And by default, they have a lower proportion of lean mass.

So with women, it would almost always be, all right, let's start at 1.6 grams per kilogram of target body weight and see how you do with that.

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.

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