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Protein amount, quality and timing | Dr Don Layman

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Optimize Your Protein, but You Don't Want to Be Frail

Don Layman: People get caught in the middle of this and rightly so when they're exposed to the information. Rodents have been primary, what have been used to do these studies. When a rat is in a cage and fed ad libithum, the only thing it does is eat. So it's overeating by 40%. And what did I tell you a little while ago was the biggest issue in nutrition? Calories. We know that restrict calories increase longevity. The animal experiments back in the 70s are total sham because most of the people doing them don't understand protein metabolism. It's not about protein or something else, it's about calories.

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