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What Happens If You Take Too Much Creatine, A Notorious Deficiency On High-Protein Diets, How To Become A Nutrition Ninja & More With Chris Masterjohn.

Ben Greenfield Life

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The RDA for Protein for Healthy Body Composition

You cannot generate protein from carbohydrates no matter what. There are pathways by which you could take some of the atoms from the carbohydrate and combine them with the nitrogen from other amino acids to turn it into a protein. But you just, you just have to eat a certain amount of protein or you'll never make those, those muscles. If you go on a protein free diet, you're just going to start degrading your muscular protein and you're never going to replace it.

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