Dr. Rhonda Patrick

They were 1.2 grams per kilogram body weight.

And it was the same thing, modest increases in muscle mass and minor increases in strength.

And that's where

I felt like I thought muscle mass strength was easier to gain with resistance training than muscle mass.

So I'm wondering, is this something to do with measuring lean body mass or maybe just the resistance training program wasn't

Can you give a little bit of a range in terms of maybe not exact because you probably don't know, but with respect to that time course, so like when you start to do resistance training and your strength is going up, like you said, like how much longer of a lag before you start to perhaps visually see or even if you're measuring it can see increases in actual muscle mass?

Okay.

Maybe we can talk, we can get into that a little bit more in a minute.

I wanted to kind of continue on the nutrition part with protein distribution.

You've done a lot of research in this area as well.

And I had done some reading preparing for this podcast on like some of the nutritional surveys that are done in the United States called NHANES in terms of like how are people typically eating

distributing their protein amongst their meals.

And I think probably it's very similar to what's found in Europe where people are eating the majority of their protein is skewed towards their evening meal, their last meal of the day.

And in most cases, at least with respect to this NHANES data, it's about three times the amount of protein in their evening meal versus their morning meal or even their afternoon meal.

Yeah.

Does it matter with respect to, you know, how the muscle responds to amino acids throughout the day?

Like, is it better to evenly have your protein evenly distributed or can you skew it in the evening and still have the same?

I don't want to just say increases in muscle protein synthesis because, as you mentioned, that doesn't always translate to gains in muscle mass.

People are more interested in gains in muscle mass.

So let's leave it with that end point.