402: The Protein Hack for Better Skin, Muscle, and Fat Loss with Angelo Keely

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Angelo Keely is the co-founder of Kion and an expert in amino acids and muscle health. He joins the show to break down everything you need to know about optimizing protein for better skin, muscle tone, and body composition. We discuss the difference between essential and non-essential amino acids, how creatine actually works (and whether it causes puffiness), the surprising benefits for brain health, and how collagen fits into the equation. We also cover how to cut calories or lose fat without losing muscle, what to look for in a protein powder, and how to use small daily habits to hit your protein goals—without being obsessive.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:05.9	This is Well, a podcast about wellness in all its forms.
0:10.0	I'm Ariel Laurie, and each week I'm sharing unfiltered conversations with people shaping how we feel, live, and look.
0:17.2	Come for the substance, stay for the honesty, and leave with the tools to be well, inside and out.
0:25.5	Hi, everybody. Welcome to the show. I'm really excited about today's episode because not only did it clear up a lot of
0:34.5	confusion that I had around protein, collagen, and creatine, and the
0:40.6	difference between all of them and where essential amino acids come into play with all of this,
0:45.5	but also about how my needs are changing as I age. I'm turning 40 in like a week, which is
0:52.0	absolutely crazy. And also how I can kind of tweak these
0:57.4	things and optimize them to help fuel my body better for better body composition, like how to
1:03.4	lose fat without losing muscle because as we age, we lose muscle, sarcopenia. So we are getting
1:10.0	into all of that in this episode. My guest is
1:14.8	Angelo Keeley, who has been on, I believe twice before. He is the founder of Kian, which is a
1:21.2	company that offers premium, clean, research-backed supplements and foods that support a
1:27.2	long active life, including the essential
1:29.3	amino acids that I love. And I wanted to bring him on to talk about this because I feel like
1:34.6	he just has a great way of communicating all things protein. And then like I said, we dive deeper
1:40.8	into things like creatine and collagen and essential amino acids in this episode.
1:45.5	You guys loved his episode last year on protein. So I thought that he would be a great person
1:51.0	to come on and help to just distill all of this information in a digestible way, pun intended.
1:59.4	So we are, of course, talking about how much protein we need,
2:03.5	how to get it in, best sources of protein, what to look for in protein powders. We also talk about
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