Hi, Carl Franklin here.

For this week, I handpicked one of my favorite two keto dudes episodes to review.

Number 33, Protein Controversy from September 2016.

We address two main questions.

The first is, how much protein should we eat?

Some experts, such as Ron Rosedale, say you should eat as little protein as possible.

Others such as Stephen Finney say you should eat protein sufficient not to lose lean mass.

Some even say there's no practical upper limit to protein intake.

Another question is, do you lose muscle mass when you fast?

Some experts say yes and others say no.

The reason I love this episode and what really impresses me about Richard is that his hypotheses

tend not to be absolute one way or another.

In fact, his first hypothesis about how much protein we should eat,

satisfies the claims of both Rosedale's and Finney's positions,

and refutes those of experts who claim there is no upper limit.

He calculated that the brain needs you to make a minimum of 50 grams of glucose every day

in order to function with the balance of its energy made up from ketones.

As you can see from the Arata, he said 51 grams in the episode,

but there was a rounding error in the math.

It's 50 grams.

He then discussed that the amount of energy that your body can extract from a pound of body fat

is about 31.5 kilocalories per pound of body fat per day,

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