Sam Sanders

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960 appearances 14 recordings 6 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 3 Jun

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Apple News Today · Americans are obsessed with protein. How much do you actually need? · 28 Mar 2026 podcast

It's called Protein, The Making of a Nutritional Superstar.

Protein is an essential nutrient for our bodies to build muscle and maintain other functions.

It's also found naturally in lots of foods.

And in their book, Sammy and Gavin argue that our obsession with protein consumption is driven a lot more by industry and marketing and cultural forces than by actual nutritional science.

I sat down with Sammy and Gavin to talk about how protein became the most popular nutrient and how to think about it differently.

Can we just start with a question for me as a real live human living in a protein world?

How much protein do we actually need?

Please answer this question for me, for our audience, once and for all.

So what you're saying is...

We don't need to sweat protein.

If we're eating and getting full, we're fine?

Yes.

That feels freeing.

I wonder if the best way to wrap our heads around what protein is right now, scientifically and culturally, is to go back to the start.

There's one guy who is owed a lot of credit for the way we think about protein now, and

His name is Eustace von Liebig.

He was doing stuff in the 1800s, and his story with protein includes a lot of foxes?

I want to stop you right there.

The father of Western protein, as we know it.

What's kind of wrong with the science?

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