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How much protein do we need | Dr Stuart Phillips and Dr Christopher Gardner

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Is Methionine a Limiting Amino Acid?

I just want to clarify something. You're not saying at 1.2 grams per kilo, if someone gets all that protein from plants, that they would fall short in methionine. Unless they were only eating legumes as their sole source of nutrition. So you would have to eat 1.3 grams per kilogram per day or 1.4 if it was all plants. And the reason that I thought Stu and I were agreeing on email one day was it's kind of moot because most people eat 1.4, 1.5,. It just doesn't come up. But if you really did get them really close to that level of individual requirement, but most people aren

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