Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Maybe we could start at the beginning.

Why protein is important?

Why we need protein?

So there's protein requirements that have been established by a variety of committees, World Health Organization.

And those protein requirements are generally 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram body weight.

Can you tell people what...

evidence that those requirements were established on or how that was based, where it came from?

So you said people in the studies that were used to determine the requirement or being in neutral, at least being in the neutral balance.

Were these people older, younger?

Were they mostly sedentary, physically active?

Or is any of that, you know, what's known and what's not known?

So how is that that people that are consuming really low-protein diets... I personally don't subscribe to that type of diet myself, but there are many people, as you said, that do consume low-protein diets, whether it's by choice or not.

But you're right, they don't disappear.

I mean, when you get to the extreme level, they look like they lost a lot of muscle.

But is there some sort of...

adaptation in other organs that change the way protein is distributed or absorbed?

Okay.

What about people that are engaged in resistance training?

So you are putting a stress on your muscle and obviously there's going to probably increase the turnover as well.

So how much do the demands in terms of protein requirements go up?