Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and you're listening to Science Versus.
This is the show that pits facts against everyone's favorite macronutrient, protein.
Is it the miracle that so many people say it is?
If you haven't noticed, protein is having a moment.
Everyone is obsessed with protein.
Protein. Protein. These days, it's like you can't have enough protein, with influences out there seemingly competing to cram more and more protein down their gullets.
Let me show you what I eat to get about 140g of protein.
I've eaten 200g of protein every day for the past six years.
I eat 300g of protein every single day.
This is the world's biggest protein cheat going down.
600g of protein, right to the goddamn bike.
Meanwhile, companies are making it easier for us to shove more protein into our face.
Forget the humble protein bar these days.
You can get protein cheese puffs, protein granola, protein brownies, protein mac and cheese.
Seriously, it's called muscle mac.
There's even protein water.
So why are we eating all this protein?
Well, over and over again, people will say that munching down protein has two big benefits.
One is for those who want to lose weight.
Protein is the most satiating macronutrient there is.
It means we stay full for longer.
This is the only way that I was able to stop overeating.
The second reason? Stronger and stronger muscles.
You know, slam that protein down right after you hit the gym and watch yourself get jacked.
Honestly, when I was eating 38 eggs a day, I was the strongest I ever was.
Your protein intake is more important than actually going to the gym.
Literally I'll go to the gym, and I'll leave a can of chicken in my glove box and I'll eat it after my lift. So today on the show, we are asking, does protein live up to all this hype?
We're going to find out one, does it actually help people lose weight?
Two, how much protein do you really need to build muscle?
And three, do you actually need to guzzle it down straight after the gym?
Should we all have a can of chicken in our glovebox?
When it comes to protein, there's a lot of...
600 grams of protein right to the goddamn bicep.
But then there's science.
Whoa! Science versus protein is coming up just after the break.
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Welcome back. Today on the show, protein.
And there's only one meathead that could tell us all the facts about it.
And that is see your producer Rose Rivla.
Hello. Hi Wendy. Yeah, we're here to talk about proteins.
So I guess my first question for you is like, do you care about your protein?
Is it something you are thinking about trying to get it in every day?
Or like, what's your protein deal?
I'm the exact opposite of those people that we just heard from who are like cramming protein in their face.
Like, I don't I don't track my protein.
I don't eat protein balls.
Leave it to you to find a way to bring balls into the protein episode.
But you know, I don't eat like protein shakes.
I'm not putting cans of chicken in my car.
But having said that, I also do wonder, like in the deep crevices of my mind, like am I eating enough protein?
Because, you know, I actually would like to be stronger.
I would like to build more muscle.
Yeah, I also want to get stronger.
I want to be able to like open a really heavy door if I needed to.
Should, should the need arise.
And protein isn't just about, you know, muscles and strength.
It's, in fact, it's important for all kinds of things in our body.
It can't really be overstated, how essential protein is.
And that's because protein is made up of different amino acids and our bodies need those amino acids to make everything run, to make hormones, to make neurotransmitters, to build the basic parts of the body, so our muscle, but also our skin, our bones, our blood.
OK, OK. And what does happen if you don't get enough protein?
Well, we know that for certain groups, it can be really dangerous, like, for little kids, and for older adults, like, over 65.
For everyone in between, you know, like, you and me, basically what we know about this, we seem to know from animal studies, where scientists put animals on a low -protein diet and watch what happens to them.
And what they see is that this puts animals at risk of getting sick more often and not recovering as well.
And we also see issues with their skin and hair.
So, like, there's one experiment where researchers fed pigs two little protein and found that they developed sparse hair, and their skin got dry, scaly, and cracked.
The authors describe these pigs as looking, quote, unkempt.
Oh, gosh. All right, lest I be unkempt.
I don't want that. OK.
So obviously, it's important to eat enough protein.
Yes, OK. But what is enough protein?
That is the question.
So exactly. And that's our first question.
There is, of course, an official recommendation.
It's made by the governments of the US and Canada and other countries.
They all pretty much agree on a number.
And I'm going to tell you where this recommendation came from.
Can I just also, can I just say I love this stuff?
Because you know how these numbers, Just that like the government just has them and we think they came down from God because they're these objective numbers And so I have always wondered where do they get these numbers from?
Yeah. Okay. No, I like it I like it too.
I like it too and the best part is the answer is gross.
So we're in a real treat today Great.
I mean so the way they work this out is using something called a nitrogen balance study I Tried to do the sound effects in To keep keep it fun.
Did it work? Ooh nitrogen balance study.
I don't know why it's spooky.
Well, it's weird so, like, the way this technique works is they basically are looking to track the protein that you eat and the protein byproducts that you excrete.
Because like, and the byproduct is nitrogen, so like to understand this you have to know that protein is like a real slut for nitrogen.
It is just chock -full of nitrogen.
And our body uses up a lot of that, but if it has more than it can use at that moment, your body will just break it down and then you get rid of the excess nitrogen.
Which brings us to our inevitable cock -ah discussion that we seem to have every episode.
We can't avoid it. Here we are.
So Stuart Phillips, a professor of kinesiology at McMaster University in Canada told me that the way it works is that you basically come into the lab, you are fed a certain diet, and then you give them all your droppings essentially.
And every time that you go to the bathroom and you pee and you poop and everything else, we collect it.
How was it, like a special toilet?
It could be a special toilet or you just pee in a jug, yeah.
Got it, hand it over.
Exactly. So when you said they get rid of the excess, Yeah, we're not just talking about cucker right?
Oh, if you're there being really thorough like they have to collect even more than that.
Yeah, give us everything.
If people cut their nails then you would collect their nail trimmings.
If you had a menstrual period we would ask you for everything that was on a tampon or a pad.
People are like horrified to list these things.
– seems like a diva cup would be a good approach. – You know what?
No LIVD experience, but it sounds like an awesome way of doing things.
– Oh, so everything that we're excreting could have little bits of nitrogen in it that could be this signal that we've eaten enough protein.
– That's right. And that's why people like Stuart that do these studies.
They need to collect it all, and they need to compare it to what that person ate.
Like, they'll have a person eat a low -protein diet for a while, and then do all this collection.
Then make a medium protein diet, then a higher protein diet.
And they're testing all these different diets in people and seeing, like, at what point do you kind of hit a balance when it comes to what's going in you and what's coming out of you?
Mm, right, right. Because any excess once you start paying poop and perioding out your nitrogen, that's a sign you've eaten too much protein.
Or more than you can use at that moment.
OK, so what have they uncovered?
So the most recent recommendations are, they come from a meta -analysis that looked at 19 of these studies altogether, including 235 people.
Studies were done all over the world, Thailand, Nigeria, Mexico, U .S. And so the authors of that meta -analysis came up with this recommendation, Which is drum roll please.
Drum roll. 0 .8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight.
Woo. What was that?
One more time. 0 .8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight.
OK, let's break that down.
So average person in America, how much protein do they need?
The average woman, according to the CDC, weighs 170 pounds.
That would be 62 grams of protein, so that's like maybe a cup and a half of chopped up chicken breast. You could get that in three cups of tofu instead.
Okay. You could eat a full cup of peanut butter.
That would get you there.
Ooh. It's tacky. I know.
I don't think we would, but we could.
According to the CDC, the average man weighs about 200 pounds, and so he would need 72 grams and that's like a cup and three quarters of chopped up chicken or three and a half cups of tofu.
Okay, okay. This feels somewhat doable, right?
Yeah, it's not a crazy amount.
So Wendy, I gave you some homework before our conversation today, I asked you to track your protein for about a week, and you sent me a diaries of, well not really diaries.
What year is this? You sent me a screen screenshots of of the tally of grams of protein per day that you had eaten?
Yes, okay. How did I do?
How did I do? You are supposed to get 46 grams of protein based on your weight every day and so right away I opened up day one of your protein diary.
Ugh, you got 34 grams. Ooh.
You did not hit the recommended amount.
Okay, all right, that's not good.
That's not good. And like I don't want to make you feel even worse.
The thing is that a lot of people say that that recommendation is too low and that you actually should be eating even more protein.
They're saying I need to be eating even more than the number that I'm already not hitting.
That's right. Why do they say that?
I'm like, protein falls deep in it now.
Well, because those studies that I just told you about, those were done in people who were not like running around lifting weights or being particularly active.
And research has found that if you are more active, then you do need to eat more protein to maintain your muscles.
So then the question becomes if you want to build muscle, how much more protein do you need to eat?
Yeah, right. Cause there are people on TikTok that are saying that you need like hundreds of grams a day, which would be around three times over the government guidelines.
but you know, as Stuart says.
TikToK, it's the cesspool of misinformation.
Yeah, so I wanted to know what's real here.
And the best evidence that I could find on this is a meta -analysis done by Stuart and his team.
And so they pulled together a lot of studies that basically asked this question, if you eat over the government guidelines, does it help you get jacked?
I mean, they don't necessarily use the word jacked, but that's kind of the idea.
Uh, and these are studies where scientists have people work out doing resistance training and eating a lot of extra protein.
And they look to see how much extra muscle can they put on with all this extra protein.
What they found. Drum roll?
Are we doing another drum roll?
Duh -duh -duh -duh -duh.
Oh, how much muscle did they get?
Roughly, on average, a quarter of a pound of muscle.
Which Stuart's like, put this in the context.
It's not a quarter of a pound on your bicep or your deltoid or your pec or whatever.
It's a quarter pound over your whole body.
So like if you were looking at somebody and I put two athletes side by side and I said that one has a quarter pound more.
And people be like, I can't even detect that.
Like that's like a quarter -pound burger at McDonald's.
Yeah. And imagine that like you rub that burger all over.
Like you put little bits and pieces of the burger like all over your whole body.
And another thing Stewart found is that there's a limit that people hit.
So like after a certain amount of protein they kind of max out, they stop putting on more muscle.
Uh -huh. And on average, this limit is at 1 .6 grams of a per kilo.
grams of protein per kilogram of their body weight.
Oh, okay, so, double the guidelines.
You're maxing out. Yes.
Uh -huh. So, like, that's interesting, right?
Because there's common wisdom online and elsewhere is that you need to eat something like three times, the government guidelines, to really bulk up.
Yeah. But the science that we have suggests that that's really too much. So, I'm thinking about this guy I saw on TikTok that eats 300 grams of protein a day.
Mm -hmm. And, you know, like, even if LeBron James wanted to go on a bulk...
using this equation, he wouldn't need that much protein.
So I talked to Stewart about this.
Yeah, like 300 grams of protein, like that there's no way that that's necessary.
Like it's certainly not, it's not giving you more muscle.
Do you think that this guy is just peeing out most of that protein?
Exactly, exactly. Okay.
So what we've learned is that you probably won't see massive gains from like shoveling your face full of protein, but like, what's the harm here?
Are there risks to eating a ton of protein?
Yeah, you know, so we looked into that.
Okay, number one, I don't think there's any long term science on people who are eating bizarre high amounts of protein, like some of these sort of goofy people on TikTok.
Generally, though, we do have science on high protein diets, some studies on people that to have relatively high protein diets and that are on them for some time or eat a lot of protein.
And we just don't see any big red flags here.
We do know that eating extra protein might be a problem for you.
If you're getting it from red meat or processed meat, that's not good for you.
Also, if you have any kidney problems, that can be a problem.
You don't want to do a high protein diet if that's the case.
But otherwise, a relatively high protein diet It seems kind of safe, so if you want to go above this recommendation, I think most experts would tell you you're not really risking that much by doing that.
All right, well, I am definitely not at risk of that, and I suppose what I've learned is I do need to be a little more careful with my protein intake.
I mean, Wendy, honestly, I did something a little sneaky in order to create some narrative tension for the episode and for my structural purposes...
It's not tensed off!
What did you do? The first day you did not hit your recommended protein goal.
But most days you did.
You hit it or you exceeded it.
Oh. And there were some days where you even were getting close to athlete amount of protein.
Oh. There were several days where you got 82 grams of protein.
Do you want to pull up one of those days and tell me what you ate?
Athlete levels. Oh my gosh!
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right. So, Saturday, 82, so, general stuff that I ate in no particular order.
Um, some sourdough bread, some veggie dumplings, Greek yogurt, granola, croissant, some beans, some eggs, broccoli, chocolate, a bit of cheese, got me there.
That wasn't like you were, like, forcing it down.
No, no, no, and that was my athlete levels.
Also, I didn't need to be having – even if I really worked out that day, little old May, does it need to be slipping down protein smoothies or whatever?
No. And despite what we hear about people trying so hard to get their protein in, we know from surveys that the average person in the U .S. and Europe is actually already getting more than the recommended amount of protein.
Oh, okay. And yeah, and like even according to a study from the UK even vegetarians even vegans are getting more than enough Oh, wow, okay So that's how much protein you need to eat on average in a day.
Our next question is does it matter when you eat it?
plus Do high protein diets help you lose weight?
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Welcome back. Today on the show, protein.
We've just found out that protein is indeed important for building muscles, although you don't need to slam it down, guzzle it, shove it in your face at every moment of every day.
Our next question though, Rose, does it matter when you eat your protein?
Good question. A lot of people think so.
They think it's very important.
That you've got to have your protein shake right after you go to the gym, right?
I think this idea is the reason that we have all these videos on social media of people sitting in their cars right after they go to the gym and they're all sweaty and they're drinking their protein shake and talking to the camera.
That's right. And what's the idea?
I've never thought that deeply about it.
I mean, so Stuart actually talked about this a lot because he's an academic, but he's also a bit of a gym rat.
He said he would take these protein powders that were made from egg or beef to the gym.
They clumped. They didn't mix well, and they tasted awful.
And you just, at the end of your workout, like literally, you're like, okay, and then plug your nose and just pound it back.
and yeah, it was disgusting.
And the reason Stewart was forcing himself to eat this is that there's some really interesting science that suggests it might make sense to get our protein in right away after we exercise.
Mm -hmm. And that's because we know that after we exercise, our muscles are especially sensitive to protein.
And the best way I can describe it is that exercise makes our cells hungry for protein, and they get especially good at gobbling it up, it's kind of like your cells are, like, supercharged when it comes to soaking up the little bits of protein that you've eaten.
Oh, cool. And there's this idea that you've got this kind of small window of time where the cells are supercharged like that.
And Stuart says his gym buddies would be like...
Yeah, like is it 30 minutes?
Is it 60 minutes? Yeah, so how long can you wait?
Yeah, so Stuart looks into this, too.
He's really all over this topic, honestly.
And also, other scientists have looked at, have studied this.
So one cool way that they've tried to answer this question is they have people come into the lab.
They pump them with an IV full of amino acids, which are, you know, the building blocks of proteins.
Yes. These amino acids are a special isotope form that scientists can actually track later on in like blood and muscle samples.
Oh, so they can like follow the amino acids through your body.
Yeah. And then they have these people do a workout, and then they take samples after the workout at different time points to see, like, how fast the amino acids are being incorporated into the muscle.
Oh. So they can see how much the cells are sucking it up, sucking it up.
And then when the cells, like, that rate of suck - Drop off.
Suck it it up. Yes.
Yes. And it turns out from these studies that our muscles are slurping up these amino acids for not just 30 minutes after our workout or 60 minutes after our workout, but for hours after a workout.
Oh. And it stays elevated for a surprisingly long time.
Like Stewart told me that after a big weightlifting session, We've got data to indicate that your muscle is responsive but receptive to protein intakes for up to 48 hours.
Oh wow, that's great.
So that gobble phase where the muscles are particularly open to slipping up new proteins, that's now lasting two days you have to eat your chicken in again.
Should be plenty of time for you to get home and I don't know, heat up the chicken and put it on a piece of bread or something.
And so when Stuart looks back at those days where he would bring that gross protein powder he did not like to the gym and force it down the hatch. He wouldn't do that now.
If you could go back in time and tap yourself on the shoulder while you were chugging down that drink, what would you say?
Don't bother, I'd say don't waste your money.
Okay, so our last question for today is can eating a bunch of protein help you lose weight?
This is a big one because this is all over the internet and just seems to be in like popular culture.
And it is a very compelling idea because protein has this reputation for being really filling, like more filling than carbs or fat.
Yeah I mean I definitely feel that like I feel like if I do eat a steak I'll feel cool, full of Phyloga.
But is that just Felix Rose, is it true?
So I called up someone who knows.
This is Phaevan Makos.
Phaevan is a professor at the University of Copenhagen.
And this question was right up his alley.
My heart really beats for understanding metabolism and how our bodies respond to different diets and exercise.
exercise. We still got ourselves a fabulous nerd here.
My heart is begging for this for this scientist. My heart beats for him too.
And recently he wrote a review looking at this question of high protein and weight loss.
And Faven said, scientists have actually tested this idea about protein making you feel full.
One is that we are giving a test meal to our participants and then we asked them to rate How full they are.
Yeah, so scientists will bring people into the lab and they'll feed them these different meals.
So it'll be either like really high in carbs or really high in fat or really high in protein.
Mm -hmm, okay. And then they give them this survey.
So there is a scale from zero to 100.
And we just ask them to rate how hungry they are or how saturated they feel.
The results from these studies actually do suggest that protein has a more satiating effect than other nutrients.
Aha! So compared to carbs and fat, protein does make us feel fuller.
Yeah. And so we have this not just from these surveys, but there's some physiological evidence.
So when scientists take blood from people after they've eaten higher protein meals, they find higher levels of hormones that help us to feel full.
Oh, that's so cool.
So there's that whole thing, like protein making us feel more full.
That's one reason a lot of people suspect that high protein diets can lead to weight loss.
But there's another reason actually, which is that our bodies need a little bit more energy to process protein that we eat.
So that actually means that when we eat high protein meals, we actually burn some extra calories.
So this all suggests that actually eating a high protein diet could help you lose weight.
So, does it? But when you follow people for like, three months, six months, we see that high protein diets do seem to work better compared to other kinds of diets.
On the whole they suggest that indeed high -protein diets seem to lead to a little bit greater weight loss than the comparator diets.
Little bit. What does that mean?
And by little bit I mean around a kilo, two pounds.
That's nothing. Right.
Oh, often months of being on a high -protein diet.
Yeah. And just in general, people don't lose significant amounts of weight and keep the weight off on high -protein diets.
So this is just like what we see on other kinds of diets, right?
A couple of studies have followed people for several years on a high -protein diet and found that they ultimately lose on average roughly 10 pounds.
even when people exercise a lot too.
So why doesn't it work all that well?
What about the satiating hormones?
The burning, right?
We asked Faithan about this, and he thinks that the reason these don't really work in the long -term is the same reason that diets in general don't tend to work very well long -term.
Of course, there's the fact that your body's metabolism adjusts after a while, and that makes it harder to keep losing weight, And then too we know that diets are just very hard to stick to for many reasons.
We don't just eat because of hunger, right.
We eat for a lot of other reasons.
Emotional reasons, psychological reasons, environmental reasons, right.
You know, really don't have food in your mind and then you just walk by a bakery and you smell the fresh baked croissants.
Or you know, the American equivalent of that is you're driving down the street or on the highway And you pass a Krispy Kreme donut shop and their light comes on, which means the donuts have just come out of the oven, and you can take the next exit.
And you get a donut.
Exactly, and I can totally identify to that.
So the fact that high -protein diets are not a golden ticket for weight loss might seem very disappointing.
But Phaevon has put a good spin on it.
He says it's actually good news because basically these ideas come along about how you need to focus on one of the macronutrients for a diet.
You either need to eat high fat or high protein, or you have to eliminate carbs...
Right. But Faben says that if you're trying to follow a diet like that, and it sucks, he says, like, you have all the science behind you to just, like, let that go.
There is actually no single macronutrient that is a friend or a foe in that regard. You can actually pick and choose and find a diet that works for you.
and once you find the diet that fits your personality, your schedule, your daily life, then you will be able to follow that for a longer time and this seems to be key for weight loss success.
Wendy, do you feel satiated from the information you've digested today?
Yes, I have. Here's what I've learnt.
most of us get enough protein in our diet without needing to eat muscle mac and protein water.
Protein can make you feel fuller, lots of cool reasons why it does that, but it might not make you shed the pounds like you want because diets are complicated.
How'd I do? I think you'd agree, I'm gonna go eat an egg now.
Great, maybe I will too, because I like eggs.
Because I like eggs too.
Don't do that. No, not sponsored by the Ed company.
Well, thanks Wendy.
Thanks, Rose. How many citations in this week's episode?
This week there are...
Drumroll! 86. 86 citations.
Yeah. And if people want to see them in all of their glory where should they go?
They're all in our transcript, you can get there by clicking the link to the transcript which is in our show notes.
Bye, Rose! Bye, Wendy!
This episode was produced by Rose Rimmler and Michelle Dang with help from me, Wendy Zuckerman and Merrill Horne.
We're edited by Blythe Tyrell, fact -checking by Erika Akiko Howlett, mix and sound design by Bobbi Lorde, music written by Bobbi Lorde and Boomi Hidaka.
Thanks to all of the researchers that we spoke to for this episode, including Professor Brad Schoenfeld and Dr. Nicholas Burd. A special thanks to the Zuckemon family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson.
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