Dr. Rhonda Patrick

a lot of protein, 22% of your calories shouldn't be coming from protein.

But certainly when you're physically active and you're healthy and you're not overweight and obese and you're not smoking, you probably shouldn't be worried about getting atherosclerosis by eating protein.

I agree.

Context matters 100% and that's really important to keep in mind.

And it's often the observational data and animal data that loses that context.

Yeah, I completely agree.

I mean, it's so different when you're talking about a mouse in a cage that's sedentary and not physically active.

And it's so hard to compare that sort of study to a physically active person, you know, as well.

Their baselines are different.

Talking about resistance training adaptations, this is another area that you've done a lot of research in.

Can you tell people a little bit about muscle memory and how the muscle adapts to repeated bouts of resistance training?

Now, you've also been involved in some research looking at exercise frequency.

And I mean, presumably recovery is part of that equation in terms of if you're frequently working out and doing resistance training, is there a diminishing returns in terms of gaining muscle mass?

Is there a frequency that can be done to maximize muscle growth and also recovery?

In terms of recovery, if you're working certain muscle groups, is it good to wait 24 hours, 48 hours?

Is that still more of a personalized sliding scale?

You've published a study looking at an aging population.

So you did older adults and then also elderly.

So these are people like 85 years old.

And you show they could have improvements in muscle mass and strength after engaging in a resistance training program.