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#224 ‒ Dietary protein: amount needed, ideal timing, quality, and more | Don Layman, Ph.D.

The Peter Attia Drive

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The Importance of Nitrogen Balance in Critically Ill Patients

In the last 20 years, those of us who study protein have gone beyond that. There are other outcomes based on amino acid metabolism that may be more important than minimum nitrogen balance. We now know that protein handling the efficiency goes down as we get older. So now we have much higher requirements that most of us talk about for adults.

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