Rhonda Patrick

And I know that you've probably had countless experts on talking about this.

I've had experts on talking about this, Stu Phillips being one.

There's so many different publications that, I mean, people can start off by reading one of them here by Stu Phillips.

Perspective, protein requirements and optimal intakes in aging.

Are we ready to recommend more than the recommended daily allowance?

And there's several of these out there.

This is just one.

And essentially, if you have the time and the willingness to go into the scientific literature and actually read something for yourself or listen to The Drive or listen to my podcast and the actual experts talking about it, what you will hear or what you will learn is that a lot of the studies that were done to determine this phenomenon

RDA were flawed.

They were called nitrogen balance studies.

And for many reasons, they're flawed.

I don't want to get into all the technical reasons, but for one, what they are doing is measuring the amount of nitrogen that is excreted in urine after you are metabolizing protein.

And some of the flaws that are, I would say, the most important here are that different types of foods that have protein in them have different nitrogen to protein ratios.

They're collecting urine, in which the case is that it's an incomplete collection.

I mean, like when you pee in one of those cups, you don't get all the urine.

It's incomplete collection.

Yes, exactly.

We lose nitrogen through other means.

And so essentially the signal to noise ratio is pretty low.

Ultimately, what countless experts have now agreed upon is that the protein for the RDA has been underestimated because of those reasons.