Rhonda Patrick

By 50% to this minimum, what the RDA should be, 1.2 grams per kilogram body weight per day.

I think that's pretty much what most all the experts agree.

It's time to change that RDA to that number, the minimal amount that you need per day.

If older adults just do that, they're actually preventing a lot of the age-related loss in muscle that occurs.

And we also know that older women, if they take in that amount of 1.2 grams per kilogram body weight per day, they're 30% less likely to have frailty in old age, which is also very important.

So I think that's pretty good evidence that it's clear that just increasing your protein intake by 50% is really important for aging, for our muscle health, and also is getting us out of that net negative state that we're in.

Yes.

I think the floor being the minimal amount of protein that we need to take in per day.

This is not optimal.

We're going to get into optimal, right?

This is just the new RDA.

And as you mentioned, so you kind of hit on this anabolic resistance.

And I think that's also a really, really important point because it does compound.

with the fact that we're already not getting enough protein to be in a positive state of protein balance.

And then you compound that with anabolic resistance.

Now, anabolic resistance is when your muscle tissue becomes less sensitive to amino acids, and so you're not making as much

muscle protein synthesis isn't occurring as much as it does when you're younger.

I think it's pretty consensus now that a lot of anabolic resistance is not necessarily aging, the aging process per se, so much as inactivity.

I totally agreed.

Yeah, I think there's also another study that was done in older adults.