Rhonda Patrick

Right.

It's 50% more.

So like most of the studies done, isotope tracer studies are between 30 to 50% more.

So that's really important because if we look at the actual protein intakes of adults, these are nutritional surveys that are done.

Of course, they're all flawed.

We can talk about it.

I mean, we all know the flaws of questionnaires, but let's just talk about what we think people are actually taking in.

Adults are mostly taking in, all adults are taking in about 0.9 grams per kilogram body weight per day of protein.

So pretty close to what that RDA is, not what it should be.

Older adults, if we look at the gender, male versus female, males are taking in about 0.9 grams per kilogram body weight.

Females are taking in 0.8.

They're really just hitting that, what we call RDA, which now we have established is not enough.

The RDA is not enough to basically be in a net protein balance.

So that's really important.

And that's essentially telling us that most adults are walking around without being in steady state protein balance.

Right.

So to answer your question, I don't know that there's a direct way to do that.

But I do know that there are studies that have shown that when older adults, so older adults that are really more susceptible to the things that you were saying, like anabolic resistance, where your muscle tissue is not as sensitive to amino acids, mostly because of physical inactivity, which increases with age.

But when older adults take in 1.2 grams per kilogram body weight per day of protein, it nearly eliminates some of the age-related muscle loss that happens.

So I think that is some evidence to support what you were saying in that if you just increase your protein intake...