Dr. Luc (Luke) van Loon

So that's already an issue.

But the other thing is the body can adapt to more or less protein.

So being in a certain balance doesn't guarantee that that is actually your requirement or your optimal requirement.

And that's where all the discussion comes from.

Because as I said, if you have your muscle turning over and you give it less protein, the turnover will actually go down.

Is that a good thing?

Is that a bad thing?

If you have a house and you want to renew it, do you want to change a lot of things or do you want to stay and not do anything?

Another, you can compare it with getting money.

If I give you less money, you'll probably buy less food or cheaper foods or you go for the discounted foods.

If I give you more money, you'll probably buy the more expensive foods.

But you still get the same needs.

You fulfill the same needs, if that makes any sense.

So turnover and requirement, we don't know how that varies.

I mean, people can adapt to a higher protein intake diet.

People can adapt to a low protein intake diet.

Those studies in those years, those were most of all healthy people.

There's only a few studies that actually had really older people in there.

and most of them were relatively healthy and lean.

So yes, there might be differences, whether you become more obese, you're more active, you're older or younger, you're male, you're female.