Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Well, the thing that's so interesting about this recent study that you published on the higher dose of protein and that being incorporated into muscle is, so if you have that 24-hour anabolic window, as you're saying, and you're going to be more sensitive to amino acids throughout that 24 hours, of course, then every meal, so if you have 10 meals on the extreme end, okay, every 10 times of protein, you're going to be sensitive to that protein because it's still within that 24-hour window.

Right.

However, if you don't have time because you're working, as you said, to eat three or four or five meals throughout the day, it's also nice to know that you can go a little further than 30 grams in those, let's say, three meals and perhaps still get a similar amount of muscle protein synthesis.

In fact, let me ask you to speculate.

Let's say a person did two people or the same person and you did a crossover study where they do both conditions.

They're doing their resistance training.

Their anabolic window is 24 hours.

They're sensitive to the amino acids.

The first time they're eating, you know, let's say...

what, 80 grams of protein, they're doing that within five meals, or they're going to do it within three.

Do you think they'll have the same amount of gains in muscle mass?

Okay, so it is... It's pure theory, of course.

Yeah, speculation.

Essentially, it sounds like, certainly in the context of training in the background, that you can skew your protein somewhat with your meals and still not be missing out on what you otherwise would gain in muscle mass.

Absolutely.

That's the essential thing.

That's the baseline, right?

It's true.

It's absolutely true.

And I'd like to continue on the nutrition because you've done so much research in this area, but I want to get to the training.