Rhonda Patrick

And we haven't even talked about optimal.

We've talked about not going backwards, which is what most people are doing.

because this RDA is too low for one.

I think that's the big problem.

But optimal is a whole other story.

And that's, again, where it's hard to kind of wrap your head around why there's controversy around this.

Although coming from the field of aging, I do have somewhat of a

I think there's been a little bit of a nuanced approach to looking at how protein affects the way we age.

And I think some of that data has biased researchers and people to think that protein is bad.

I think some of it's coming from that evidence, which we can talk about.

Yep.

Again, aside from that, it's really hard to understand why someone would be so opposed to increasing protein intake when there's really just no evidence that it's harmful, at least in healthy adults.

This, again, is where I turn to the experts like Stu Phillips.

In fact, he did a really great meta-analysis looking at about 49 different studies in adults that were undergoing controlled trials.

Resistance training alone or resistance training plus adults.

supplemental protein.

And the supplemental protein went up to 1.6.

Well, actually, it went up above that.

But what was really found in that study was that even going from like 1.2 grams per kilogram body weight

per day, obviously, to 1.6 grams per kilogram body weight, people gained about 27% more lean body mass and 10% more muscle strength compared to just training alone.