Dr. Layne Norton

They're normal people.

And guess what happens when you try to control aspects of their daily life?

They drop out of studies.

One of my favorites is when people go, why didn't they do it in bodybuilders?

You know, bodybuilders say this.

And I go, because you guys suck as test subjects.

Because let's say I want to do a protein study on bodybuilders.

As soon as I randomize you guys to the low – you guys to low protein, you're all going to drop out.

If I do a high volume versus low volume study and I randomize people to low volume, they're going to drop out.

Like you can't – it's almost impossible to do.

Or you've got to pay people to do it.

So anyways, if we look at some of the meta-regressions, if we look at the research on protein synthesis and –

Even Stu did a study years ago of egg albumin intake, like 5, 10, 20 and 40 grams of egg albumin protein.

And the take home was that the 20 grams maximized the response and it was no different than 40 grams.

Statistically, yes.

But I think 40 grams is still 11% higher in rate of muscle protein synthesis.

But I think there was like six people per group, which again, when you're doing muscle protein synthesis in human, you are taking chunks of flesh out of people.

You are having them lay around getting infused with amino acids for five, six.

Van Loon's recent study was like 12 hours.

Like people were literally laying supine for 12 hours getting infused.