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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
I recommend them to patients if they need it, but it's not a necessity.
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
And we know that nitrogen balance, and you and I have talked about this, these protein recommendations, which we know the intake, these nitrogen balance studies were done in 18 to, I don't know, 25-year-old males, that the protein intake, so for those listening, and I'm sure they already know this, that the current protein recommendations are based on nitrogen balance studies.
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
from, I don't know, the early 1900s?
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
Is there any place in medicine that you know that uses a study from the early 1900s?
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
No.
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
To say that this is what it should be?
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
But when you think about nitrogen balance, and I'm gonna ask you this question.
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
So let's say we know that the intake is overestimated from these 25-year-old men, and the excretion is underestimated.
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
Okay, so what does that mean?
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
It basically just gives us this number for nitrogen balance.
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
Also, all amino acids are,
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
quote considered the same in these studies so leucine would be the same as a non-essential amino acid we know that that's it's just nitrogen but it's not specific enough and now i'm going to ask you a question so this is the minimum for preventing quote deficiencies based on nitrogen balance are you ready for it ready tell me one health outcome that you know of that is related to nitrogen balance
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
Exactly.
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
We don't know any health outcome related to nitrogen balance.
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
And so we can say it's a flawed study, and I think that's important.
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
But one step deeper is, okay, what's the actual health outcome?
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
that is related to nitrogen balance.
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
How does using something that's used in agriculture from the 1900s currently relate to the minimum to prevent deficiencies?
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
I don't even think that we have that.
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546: Why Muscle Is the Real Organ of Longevity (Do This To Age Better!) | Gabrielle Lyon, DO
I mean, that number as the minimum is probably incorrect.