165: More Than Muscle: The Protein Conversation
The Nick Bare Podcast
Nick Bare
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Protein isn’t just about building muscle. In this episode, I break down why protein plays a critical role in performance, recovery, body composition, and long-term health. It helps repair tissue, support hormones and enzymes, strengthen your immune system, and even protect bone health.
At the end of the day, if you want to perform better, recover stronger, and build a body that lasts, you have to start by getting the fundamentals right.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Welcome
02:40 Key Protein Takeaways
06:16 Protein Beyond Muscle
10:53 What Protein Is
13:49 No Protein Storage
16:01 Digestion and Excretion
22:25 Thermic Effect
25:54 Satiety and Body Composition
31:03 Common Protein Myths
36:46 Whey Protein Basics
50:40 Daily Protein Targets
57:40 Low Protein and Vegan Risks
01:02:34 Final Recap
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| 0:00.0 | Well, guys, we've done it. |
| 0:03.1 | You've been asking for years. |
| 0:06.2 | And over these last couple months, we have been working on the product you've been asking for, |
| 0:11.3 | which is a grass-fed whey protein icelet, |
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| 0:21.6 | which goes live today, March 16th, |
| 0:26.6 | 2026, 10 a.m. Central Standard Time at BPNSups.com. |
| 0:44.2 | All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the podcast. |
| 0:51.8 | Today we're talking protein. Everything about protein. And the working title of this episode is more than muscle, the protein conversation. |
| 0:57.3 | Now, I'm a big fan, advocate, consumer, producer, all things of protein. |
| 1:07.3 | Protein has been foundational for much of my life. |
| 1:10.4 | For at least the last 18 almost 20 years now |
| 1:18.1 | but i think a lot of people get protein wrong and they think that it is just a muscle building |
| 1:25.7 | supplement or macronutrient but it is much greater it is just a muscle building supplement or macronutrient, but it is much greater. |
| 1:31.3 | It is much more important. |
| 1:32.8 | It is much larger than that. |
| 1:37.9 | And that is my hopes in this protein conversation today. |
| 1:41.8 | Now, in preparation for the podcast that I record, I do a lot of prep work. |
| 1:48.4 | I do a lot of research. |
| 1:50.1 | I'll listen to audiobooks. |
| 1:53.6 | I'll read research papers. |
| 1:56.2 | I'll listen to podcast. |
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