Dr. Luc (Luke) van Loon

At least I hope not, because that wouldn't be good for him.

But he actually is renewing that muscle much faster.

And that requires fresh proteins coming in.

Now, what I said, the optimal requirements, we don't know, but we do know, is that at least for muscle mass gain, so for the resistance type guys that want to gain more muscle, that

it tends to have greater gains in muscle mass and in muscle strength if you consume more protein than is being advised.

So if you go towards 1.2 or even 1.4 or 1.6.

Now, going even higher than that, I think it's not relevant.

It's not necessary.

It's also a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy because if your body adapts to more protein, it will need more protein.

So that is just natural in the situation.

Your body adapts to its use.

So you can actually maintain your body mass on the low protein intake and on the high protein intake.

And there must be a sweet spot somewhere.

And I think most people are spending too much time thinking about what the sweet spot is.

Because the 0.8, hardly any, whether we're talking about young or old, there's hardly anybody consuming 0.8.

If you're a healthy older or a healthy young sedentary person, you easily consume between 1 and 1.3 grams of protein per kilo and body mass per day.

I mean, if 10% to 15% energy percent of your diet is protein, you easily get to 1% to 1.3%.

And that's also people that don't take supplements or just don't think about the nutrition.

If we see elderly of older people in our test, between 1% and 1.3%.

Now, if you're an athlete and you're exercising, you eat more simply because you need to be in energy balance.