Peter Attia

And what I think this study demonstrated was that in less trained individuals, you will achieve

higher levels of MPS for lower amounts of amino acids.

But again, two things stand out here.

The first is be careful what patient population you're looking at in the study and make sure it applies to you.

So in an individual who's training an hour a day, I don't think they can compare themselves to someone who went from sitting on a couch to training 90 minutes a week.

Very different.

The other place I would say that there's a perfect parallel there, and I want to make sure everybody who's trying to figure out what bucket they belong in can sort of do the mental gymnastics here.

If you take an untrained individual, a person who is 100% sedentary, which sadly is the majority of people in the United States,

And you put them on a fitness regimen of three 30-minute whole body workouts a week.

Take that sedentary person, I take them into a gym, and I get them to push around weights 30 minutes three times a week.

Not to failure, not to profound exhaustion.

There is no desire to maim them or make it such that they can't get out of bed the next day.

Will they achieve a training benefit?

Will they achieve some benefit?

And the answer is unbelievably, unbelievable benefit.

David, if you put me into their workouts, would I achieve any benefit?

I would argue virtually none.

Why?

By the way, that's a beautiful example.

When I hear people say you don't need much more protein than 0.8 because of that study, you know what it makes me think?