Alan Aragon
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 27 Mar
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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 a vegan group has been compared with an omnivore group.
And total daily protein was optimized at 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight per day or 0.7 grams per pound in both groups.
Progressive resistance training for 12 weeks.
No significant differences between groups in muscle size and strength gain, whether it was a omnivorous protein intake or whether it was a plant-based protein intake.
And we have two studies showing that now.
It's a common thing with the general population, with the lay public.
My protein target is protein.
at least 160 grams a day.
So I just make sure that I have four meals with at least 40 grams of protein per day.
And it's so easy to do.
It's incredibly easy to do because two of my meals per day are just real whole foods.
And then two of my meals per day, two to three, are protein smoothies.
And so it is just so incredibly easy for me to get my protein intake through.
Like two scoops of protein, bam, that's almost 50 grams of protein right there.
So you have two of those a day, I've got more than half my protein covered.
Now, if you were telling me, hey, Alan, I want to place really good in the nationals this year, the NPC nationals, classic physique or classic bodybuilding or just any one of the physique divisions.
I would say, you know, you are not going to want to try to get all your protein in a single meal because what we want to do is we want to maximize the number of micro anabolic events in the course of the day.
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