Peter Attia

So maybe we shouldn't be ramming high protein, total parenteral nutrition into the central veins of critically ill ICU patients.

But it didn't harm them.

And if anybody's going to be harmed, I would think it's the people that are in renal failure.

We haven't spoken specifically about pregnancy or adolescence.

What do we know about protein requirements?

Because there are clearly women listening to us right now who are pregnant or who will be pregnant.

And I don't think there are any adolescents listening to us, but I bet there are parents of adolescents.

So what kind of guidance would we want to give these folks?

Are there formal recommendations?

So if we accomplish nothing else, that's the single most important take-home message here.

Yeah, it's really funny.

The other day I was eating something and I forget how much protein it had in it, but it had percent of daily requirement, but it was obviously baked to a very low number.

Because I remember my son was looking at it with me and he goes, I forget what the number was.

Is that really like 40% of your daily protein requirement?

And I said, no, but I just didn't have the energy to explain the RDA to him.

So I was like, no, this is just wrong.

You can ignore this.

Yeah.

I mean, I would think for kids, it should be at least the 1.2 to 1.6.

Just look at the activity level of my kids is they make me look sedentary.