Dr. Jason Fung

I think that's a really, really good question because there's some evidence, some evidence that older people need more protein because you're not turning that protein into muscle properly.

Yeah, exactly.

So, so therefore you might want to take a bit extra so that, you know, the less efficient, because of the less, less efficient sort of turning it into muscle, you're going to supply it with enough.

And I think that there is some validity there.

That's why I think protein is sort of a very nuanced sort of topic because protein

you know, maybe older people need it, maybe bodybuilders need more.

Like, it's a very difficult, it's a difficult question because there's so many special circumstances, right?

And what we're trying to do, of course, is say,

this is what everybody should eat, right?

And it's like, well, I don't know if it's that, you know, black and white that we can say, this is the number, right?

It's a difficult question because there are a lot of sort of facets of it.

Now, of course, like Dr. Lyon and most of these other people who talk about protein are also big on resistance training, right?

Which I think is actually the more important aspect, right?

You got to put, like when you're talking about building muscle and stability and all this sort of stuff, it's really about,

Resistance training, because the way you gain muscle is by exercise, right?

Eating protein does not make you gain muscle.

But if you do resistance exercise and don't eat enough protein, and there's a whole medical term for this, which is tea and toasters, right?

So these little old ladies in the past, like 20 years ago, 30 years ago, who just ate tea and toast, right?

they were frail like anything because they weren't eating any protein.

So even if they were to exercise, they don't have the protein to build up, right?