Erin Allman-Updike

That's it.

They don't have any data to show that more protein is better for cardiovascular disease, for diabetes, for mortality, for cancer, for anything else.

Just a few short-term studies, 68% of these 30 studies showed decrease in one weight-related metric, like BMI or waist circumference or something like that.

So there's really no data to support this idea that we need more protein than what we're already getting.

And excess dietary protein ends up converted into fat, which is going to increase your visceral adiposity.

And that's the type of fat that puts people at risk of diabetes and metabolic disease.

There's some evidence that increasing your protein intake, if you are doing intensive strength and resistance training...

can increase your muscle mass, but they're not, like, that's a separate subset and that's not the general population because if we were all doing more strength training, that would be great for everyone, but we're not as a whole.

It's a great question.

We don't know.

Will there be?

It's a really great question, though.

Because this is, I mean, this sets us up for the protein marketing to be like, heck yes, thank you so much for doing this, right?

We're already here.

Now look at us.

We're in the guidelines, right?

Despite the fact that they're all ultra processed foods.

Right?

I feel like my 20s was a process of checking off everything that I was not good at to get to what I was good at.

There was a large chunk of my 20s that I was just so wanting to be out of that phase, out of my skin, and I just really regret not living in the present more.