Chris Gaiomali

And they're just calibrating that until they get something that sort of resembles the traditional product, but is maybe just a little bit off.

And then on top of that, they'll try to mask it with, you know, nut clusters and all this other stuff to sort of like take your eye off the ball a little bit that this isn't the old one you're eating, but it's a little bit different, but it can't be too different.

And I think that's kind of the trick towards all these new protein food products, honestly.

Yeah, you know, where I sort of landed, and this flip-flops every day, if you ask me the same question tomorrow, I might have a different answer for you, but it's still junk, but it's kind of a lesser evil situation to my mind.

A lot of the researchers I talked to, there was this one guy named Alan Aragon, who's sort of like been at the forefront of a lot of protein and fitness research over these past couple decades.

He made the point that really kind of shocked me that this stuff is actually really useful for people who are maybe a little bit older and they're dealing with age-related muscle loss.

And it's just so much easier for them to eat a bowl of cereal versus like a huge sirloin steak that a carnivore diet influencer would make for themselves and eat off a cutting board or something like that.

It's maybe not ideal.

Maybe we should be getting our protein from whole sources like, you know.

fish and like grass fed meat and tofu and stuff like that.

But you know, we don't live in a sort of ideal world.

We're always on the move and like need convenience when we can.

So I'll occasionally indulge in like a protein thing that tastes like a pop tart and feel not too bad about it if I can help it.

So in terms of how much protein a person might need, the RDA works out to basically 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight.

That's a lot of math, but most people probably aren't getting enough, especially if you work out.

And, you know, protein is a source of our cellular healing and all that stuff.

So, yeah, we're probably all not eating enough, honestly.

I feel like we're just getting so much smarter about nutrition now.

I always think back to my youth when the, you know, the food pyramid at the bottom of it was like your foundation of a healthy diet is like six to 11 daily breads or something.

That's so many carbs, that's so much bread.