Peter Attia

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.

Okay.

Anything else we want to say on the topic of protein to help with some of the confusion that is out there?

I think we should talk a little bit about some of the misconstrued understanding of mechanisms of action around mTOR, cancer and stuff like that.

There was one period of my life when over the course of a year, I made a very dedicated goal to lose body weight and gain muscle.

So I wanted to see like, could this be done?

And it did require quite a bit of intermittent fasting or time-restricted eating, I suppose, to be more accurate.

But

The amount of attention I had to pay to protein intake was pretty incredible.

And what I did that seems counterintuitive because I wasn't intermittent fasting because I believed that a fasted state was producing some benefit.

There's some people who think that, well, if I don't eat breakfast, I'm kicking off some autophagy or something.