Dr. Layne Norton

But that's probably the last like three to 5%.

And what do you think that total protein per day is?

Yeah, so this is where

I'll tell you what the literature says and then I'll tell you if you injected me with a truth serum what I really think.

So literature says 1.6 to 2 grams per kilogram body weight.

Most literature tops out around that 1.6 number.

What I really think is I don't necessarily know if there's a top end of protein where you stop getting benefits, but I do think it just becomes so marginal that you can't pick it out because with protein synthesis, it's actually a really insensitive measure.

Like you're dealing with looking, you are looking for small differences between small numbers.

It is very difficult to pick out.

And another like difficult thing to look at, especially when we're looking at lean mass and protein intake is if you do an eight week study,

I mean, it's not like somebody builds so much more lean mass, even if they're resistance training versus somebody not.

I mean, yeah, you build a few kilos, but it's not like this massive, huge difference.

And so I think a lot of times we just don't – it's hard to do really long randomized control trials.

I always tell people when they say, why didn't they do it longer?

Why weren't there more subjects?

Money, money, money.

And also I think people have this view that like there's just this group of random people just sitting around waiting to be chosen for research studies and they're just like –

Don't have a life and they just do that.

No, no.

Research subjects are me, you, people watching.