If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

This has to be one of my favorite episodes I've done with you guys.

Well, typically this would happen, right?

When we, I remember when we were talking about even doing this episode, we were like,

whatever, you know, but everybody's heard about protein.

Yeah, that's the thing is you think we kind of take for granted and we think,

oh, protein, we don't need to do, talk too much about it,

aside from dispelling myths.

But the reality is, you know, we sat down and we started to dive deep into the macronutrient of protein,

what some would consider one of the more important macronutrients,

although that's a little bit false.

There's two essential macronutrients, fats and proteins.

But when it comes to muscle building and fat loss and satiety, protein tends to shine.

But the other thing that sticks out or stands out is that there's a lot of misinformation surrounding protein,

a lot of beliefs that don't seem to be, or that definitely are not accurate or sometimes outright,

the opposite of the truth.

So in this episode, we break it all down.

We start out by talking about what a protein is and talk about how it's one of the building blocks of your body's tissue.

We talk about how your body breaks it down and absorbs proteins.

We talk about amino acids which make up protein, including branching amino acids,

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