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Protein amount, quality and timing | Dr Don Layman

Nov 28, 2022

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Is Calorie Control More Important Than Protein Optimization for quality of life?

02:05

Timing of protein intake and its effects on muscle synthesis

01:41

The Truth About Protein Absorption and Utilization

01:14

High protein diets and kidney health: Separating fact from fiction

01:49

Introduction

3min

What Are Your Research Interests?

2min

The Importance of Muscle

2min

Is There a Good Amount of Muscle?

2min

The Key to Metabolic Health?

2min

How Much Muscle Do You Need to Metabolize Glucose?

2min

How to Maximize Mitochondrial Development

2min

Aging Is a Phenomenon We Can't Stop

3min

Longevity, Functional Mobility, Metabolic Health

4min

10.

Is Calorie Control More Important Than Protein Optimization?

2min

11.

What's the Difference Between Protein and Muscle?

5min

12.

How Do Meal Timing Reduce Muscle Protein Synthesis?

2min

13.

Is MPS a Biomarker of Aging?

2min

14.

Is There a Difference Between a Spike and an Area Under the Curve?

3min

15.

Can We Measure Muscle Protein Breakdown?

2min

16.

What's the Difference Between a Mixed Meal With Multiple Foods?

2min

17.

What's the Difference Between Whey Protein and Soy Protein?

2min

18.

The RDA Is 0.8 Grams Per Kilo, Right?

5min

19.

Does Vitamin C at 60 Milligrams Per Day Prevent Scurvy?

3min

20.

Is It Adequate Versus 1.6 Grams Per Kilogram?

2min

21.

Can More Protein Make Up for Not Doing the Exercise?

2min

22.

Is There a Difference Between Protein Intake and Body Composition?

2min

23.

Is There a Difference Between 1.2 and 1.6 Grams Per Kilo?

2min

24.

Is There a Benefit to Supplementation?

2min

25.

Leucine

4min

26.

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

5min

27.

The Effects of Protein Restrictions on Longevity

3min

28.

Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Protein?

3min

29.

Are You Concerned About Protein and Longevity?

4min

30.

The American Diet

2min

31.

Are There Unhealthy Diets?

2min

32.

Is There a Difference Between the Total Fat and the Total Calories?

2min

33.

How Important Is Distribution?

4min

34.

Is There a Conflict of Interest?

3min

35.

Are You Concerned That You Had Money From Coke?

2min

36.

The Anabolic Window

2min

37.

Is Time Restricted Eating a Calorie Control Mechanism?

2min

38.

Do You Want M-Tor to Pulse?

2min

39.

Is 30 Grams of Protein the Optimum?

3min

40.

Is There Anything You Can Do That Could Increase Amino Acid Uptake?

3min

41.

Does Testosterone Increase Muscle Mass?

2min

42.

Do High Protein Diets Cause Kidney Disease?

4min

43.

Do You Think We've Covered Most Things?

2min

44.

The Science-Based Conversation Podcast

3min

Episode #236. Dr Donald Layman is an expert in protein synthesis and metabolism. With endless online dialogue on protein, Dr Layman offers clarity and answers pressing questions in this episode: how does protein interact with skeletal and metabolic health? Is aging dependent on our DNA? How much protein should I consume, and when?

These questions, and many more, are answered in this week’s episode. We cover:

Intro (0:00)
Muscle & Metabolic Health (5:00)
Moderate vs HIIT Training (14:00)
Are Aging Outcomes Genetic? (16:29)
Longevity vs Vitality (19:15)
Muscle Protein Synthesis (24:40)
Is the Protein RDA Sufficient? (43:03)
Protein Intake for Aging (56:05)
Why Leucine (59:48)
Longevity and Protein (1:03:33)
Cardiovascular Disease (1:16:08)
Protein Distribution (1:25:30)
Questionable Industry Funding (1:29:17)
Meal Timing (1:34:09)
Protein Threshold (1:39:33)
Danger of Cold Therapy (1:43:26)
Important Supplements (1:46:20)
Chronic Kidney Disease (1:49:20)
Outro (1:52:41)

To connect with Donald Layman, PhD, you can find him on Twitter. Check out his website, https://metabolictransformation.com/, to learn more about metabolic health.

Discover additional resources, supporting studies, and more insights in the full show notes.

Enjoy, friends.

Simon

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