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Craig Emmerich: An Engineer's Guide to Optimizing Health - #96

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The Importance of Protein Amino Acids in Weight Loss

The body doesn't want to use protein as a fuel. It's an energy intensive process and the body doesn't really want to do it if it doesn't have to. Protein is 30 to 40% of the thermic effect, depending on the type of macronutrients. That means about a third of the calories, if you will, of the protein coming in. If you cut the carbs out and now you've got some fat, whether it's on the body, or in the diet, it's going to use that as fuel. And so when you dial the fat down a little bit in the diet,. now you force your body to burn the fat on your body more

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