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Unpacking The Truth Behind Exercise and Protein Supplementation

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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The RDA Is Not Optimal for Training Athletes

If you don't meet your energy needs, you will begin to pull protein out of stores. Protein comes out of the system in order to sort of make up for differences. The macronutrient composition of that diet obviously matters. But I'm sort of, you know, 1.6 is where I think you've got to squeeze a lot of benefit out of the out of the cloth.

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