Rhonda Patrick

that are actively trying to lose fat, gain muscle.

If you want to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time, you're going to have to take in a lot of protein.

I can just tell you from personal experience, it's actually smarter to aim higher because I'm constantly not meeting the 1.6.

Right.

I was thinking about this because we mentioned the 1.2 being the sort of the minimum buy-in.

The 1.6 grams per kilogram bottle isn't necessarily just for people training a little bit.

It's also older adults that are not training because we talked about the anabolic resistance.

I'm needing twice as much protein as well.

And so what you're talking about here is going up to two so that you can really have an average at least of 1.6.

You're getting that average.

Yeah.

I mean, I haven't seen any human data either, for sure.

Yeah, exactly.

I haven't seen that data either.

It goes up with pregnancy and also adolescence.

I don't remember.

Again, it's all about like going a little bit above what's the RDA and we've already established that's not enough.

So, I mean, honestly, I think if people are listening to this episode, just knowing that 0.8 grams per kilogram body weight per day is just not enough.

I really think it is because everyone looks at those guidelines.

Growing is also an important time for protein, right?