Peter Attia

Didn't he just hear what Rhonda said?

1.6 is good enough for most people.

Well, my patients, unfortunately, don't live in labs.

Unfortunately, Rhonda, my patients live in this place.

It's called the real world.

And in the real world, you can't always hit your targets.

Some days you do, some days you don't.

Some days you're traveling, some days you're not.

Some days you can figure it out, some days you can't.

So if I'm telling somebody to hit 1.6 and one day they're at 1.2, another day they're at 1.7, another day they're at 1.5, another day they're at 1.9, on average they might hit 1.6.

But how many days were they below versus how many days were they above?

Let's just say it's an equal split.

But we've just established the shape of this curve

is like this.

So that means every day you're below, the downside is much greater than the upside of being above.

In other words, all the days you're above are not making up for all the days you're below.

So what I'd really like to do is shift the range so that your low day is 1.6 and your high day is maybe 2.2.

And then guess what?

You don't have days where you are ever, ever amino acid restricted.

And this is the difference between people who take care of people in the real world and bozos who write on Substack who don't know the first thing about clinical medicine when it comes to managing athletes and people who have to fend for themselves every day with every meal.