Dr. Eric Topol
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There's no data to support that.
I've scoured all the literature.
And the most you could get to if you're getting older and you want to increase your protein, you're worried about muscle mass, you know, you would go to, let's say, 1.2 per kilogram, 1.4.
grams of protein per kilogram.
So this is half of that one gram per pound approximately.
But what you see are data that we get to this crazy recommendation by some people without data
that you should take that much protein per day.
First of all, it's very hard to do that.
But more importantly, the data all suggests that it could be harmful.
So I really advise against that.
And if people are gonna say, I wanna have one gram protein per day, they better provide the data
to back it up.
And I don't see any.
And that's, we're talking about, you know, some of these people that are really working out heavy for muscle training and strength training.
They're very keen on this, but there's no data to support it.
That's really true.
And getting 25 to 30 grams of fiber a day is challenging.
You got to go after it.
But that is the recommendation.
And it does help.