Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Like you said, pea protein, is there something else in combination with pea that would cover all the bases?

And then sprouting, I think also some of the, you can get sprouted quinoa source of protein where it's getting away some of the, as you mentioned, like some of these anti-nutritional components, like the fiber matrix that are, you know, in some cases, other lectins and they're sort of inhibiting some of the absorption of protein.

What about protein isolate versus concentrate?

Is it better to consume protein isolate for higher protein?

If someone's interested in lower fat content and more protein content.

Protein isolate, okay.

So we've talked about leucine and how it's very important for activating mTOR.

Can you talk a little bit about the leucine threshold and how resistance training, physical activity changes that leucine threshold?

So here's another question for you.

I know that exercise causes branched-chain amino acids like leucine to be taken up into skeletal muscle, like from circulation.

So leucine, these amino acids are doing lots of things in multiple tissues.

It's going into the brain.

It's getting transported in the brain, for example.

But the exercise causes more leucine to be taken up into skeletal muscle.

So does that...

I don't know if it's proper to even call it the leucine threshold, but can you then take in more leucine and get it more into the muscle where it used to be like, oh, after three grams or whatever, then you're not going to really do much more.

Do you think exercise would, in a way, almost make it where you could consume even more leucine?

Well, it kind of leads me to this next question that has to do with cardiovascular disease.

And I'm sure you saw this headline that claimed high-protein diets.

It was an animal study that claimed getting 22% of your calories from protein was going to cause atherosclerosis.