Protein Is an Ongoing Cost

About this episode

This episode discusses the ongoing cost of protein in relation to muscle maintenance and body accounting.

Send us Fan Mail The body doesn’t follow nutrition rules. It keeps accounts. You can also checkout the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/ClVdbSaG_8Q Protein is one of the places where that accounting becomes visible. Muscle tissue is constantly being built and broken down, and when intake doesn’t consistently exceed the cost of what the body is being asked to maintain, the system adjusts quietly. Not through breakdown, but through reduced margin. In this episode, I explain ...

People in this episode

Host: Artis L Beatty

Topics covered

• nutrition
• protein
• muscle tissue
• body accounting
• intake
• health

Keywords

• protein
• nutrition rules
• muscle breakdown
• body maintenance
• intake cost

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