Dr. Jason Fung

You can't store protein for energy.

So that's the reality.

So can a high protein diet work?

It can still work because it can still work on

satiety signaling, GLP-1, displacing carbohydrate, that kind of thing.

It can still work, but it's a little nuanced.

I don't think it's like a magic bullet where I'm just going to eat a lot of protein and I'm going to lose weight.

And there's also differences if you're a bodybuilder and really, really working out a lot, very muscular, then it's different.

The entire thing is different.

But

You know, for the most part, I think that people are eating enough protein.

And this whole sort of put protein on everything is more of a, it's more of a selling point than anything else.

And, you know, it can work, but it's not like the be all and end all.

It's part of this whole thing.

And that's why there's so many tips in the book, because weight gain is very complicated.

There's all these different nuances.

So you can affect them at different points.

It's not a single calorie in calorie out thing.

I think the research is still ongoing, right?

How much protein does somebody need?