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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 the RDA Sufficient to Overcome Potential Flaws in the IOM Report?

The RDA is not optimal, but it's your definition of optimal. So what are you thinking about sarcopenia or is it bone mineral density or is it function? What's the sort of meaningful outcome of interest for you? And then in addition to that, with everything that Christopher just went through, is the buffer that's been added to the estimated average requirement through this two standard deviation increase to get to the RDA sufficient to overcome the potential flaws in the nitrogen balance studies? Well, I think what you have to ask yourself, if somebody's in nitrogen balance, what's the associated physiology or relevant marker that would speak to the optimization that you care about? Because the answer is

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