A major scientific review is challenging the idea that more protein is always better.
The review, led by pathologist and biomedical researcher Dudley Lamming and published in the journal Cell Press Blue, examined more than 350 studies involving humans, mice, insects, yeast, and other organisms.
The review found that eating less protein, or less of certain amino acids that make up protein, may turn on body processes linked to healthier aging, as well as metabolism, the process by which the body turns food and drinks into energy.
There sure has been a lot of protein fear-mongering lately. No, you’re not eating too much protein. No, you’re not getting lead poisoning from protein powder. No, it’s not damaging your kidneys or whatever this week’s claim is.
Updating the recommended daily intake of protein to 0.8-1g/kg was the only thing RFK was almost correct about. Though that amount also comes with the recommendation of including resistance training in your exercise routine, which is far more important for aging than just protein alone. Conveniently the new dietary guidelines failed to mention that part.
This part in particular:
stinks of someone wanting to get in on a peptide or hormone treatment.
Exercise. Eat protein. Try to get most of it from whole plant sources.
I mean yes, but let’s be honest. Most Americans are eating a lot of protein in the form of meat and dairy. So if you take a typical American diet and remove protein I’m not surprised it’s healthier.
Several long term trends show that Americans, especially children, drink far less milk than they once did. And studies show that if they have consumed dairy it’s probably a low fat or skim variety. Replacing whole dairy with low fat or fat free products removes much or all of the milk fat, along fat-soluble vitamins and minerals, typically bound in colloids (a type of nutritional matrix, another active research topic.) Children who do consume full fat dairy tend to be more metabolically healthy than those who do not, but more research would be great.
The problem with SAD (standard American diet) is extremely high refined foods with highly refined carbs(UPFs), and so often low vegetable, and they tend to really focus on lean muscle.
People often think animal fat contains toxins. That’s generally false. Animal fat does contain multiple(likely all) fat soluble nutrients though, which are all core essential nutrients.
Most importantly, many don’t eat the rest of the animal. Like the offal/organs or the bone/marrow or the collagen or blood … These all are great sources of nutrients that lean meat and plants do not contain. Very critical to this understanding are vitamin forms. Animal sources of vitamins are generally more bio-available and potent, and then they’re delivered in a rich nutritional matrix with other highly potent and bioavailable vitamins so you’re getting a naturally balanced source of extremely good and vital nutritients. Sure, a carrot contains beta carotene which is vitamin a just like retinol is but retinol is much more potent version of the vitamin. And this is true for every single vitamin out there, and plants pretty much universally contain inferior(less potent, less efficacious) versions. Just like plant proteins are far less digestible than animal, often requiring double the amount per meal (around 20g vs 40g.)
But sure, like the article mentions. Calorie reduction goes hand in hand with protein reduction, especially if you’re eating excessive protein.
If you have kidney problems you should probably not be on a high protein diet… By all means, go ask a doctor.
That’s true, but different from protein causing the kidney problems.
Extremely high protein diets have actually been linked to what’s called de novo kidney disease which means from the new.
Antipeptide is so odd to me, yall just hate it because the lookmaxer crowd coopted it, they are good overall
I don’t necessarily care what movement coopted it, I care that it’s become a favorite of health grifters. What may be legitimate is completely overshadowed by quickly churned out low effort crap, just like supplements. I care that as an American, completely unregulated substances that may or may not actually be peptides have become the official government stance at the expense of funding literally any form of healthcare.
I’m talking about regulated prescribed petptides, they have been getting approved, it isn’t 10 years ago, and they weren’t new then, had successful trials for years
Tell that to Bryan Johnson. His peptide removedtail gave him an autoimmune disease that will kill him.
Biochemist here, peptides are 99% dangerous bullshit.
And I’m talking about how legitimate peptides are now becoming overshadowed by the grift economy.