Instagram Live Q/A: Protein Recommendations, Creatine Supplementation, Optimal Rate of Weight Gain
Barbell Medicine Podcast
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🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone welcome back to the barbell medicine podcast where we bring modern medicine |
| 0:13.0 | to strength conditioning and strength conditioning to modern medicine I'm Dr. Jordan Figenbaum. |
| 0:17.2 | I've recorded a few of my Instagram live from the past week and I've mashed them all together so hopefully you guys enjoy it. |
| 0:22.6 | We're going to talk about protein recommendations, |
| 0:24.5 | creatine supplementation, how fast you should gain weight, |
| 0:27.4 | and a host of other nuanced topics. |
| 0:29.9 | So without further ado, let's get into it. Q&A here. |
| 0:35.0 | Let's start out though by talking about dietary protein |
| 0:40.0 | just because this has been a recurring question over and over and over again and there's actually been some new guidelines put out. |
| 0:47.0 | So just to review, in most countries in the world right now, the dietary protein intake recommendations are 0.8 to 1 gram per kilogram body weight. |
| 1:00.0 | It's just almost all countries that actually make a recommendation on this. |
| 1:05.1 | That's kind of where they go. |
| 1:07.5 | Now, as far as protein intake for the maximum adaptations you can get from strength training or resistance training |
| 1:15.2 | induced hypertrophy or even endurance training like just actual performance |
| 1:19.7 | outcomes, aesthetic outcomes, or even like health outcomes like weight loss, we actually have really good data that |
| 1:28.2 | protein intake should be different than that. Above the RDA, the 0.8 gram per kilogram body weight per day |
| 1:35.9 | sort of recommendation so the the latest sort of evidence-based recommendations for |
| 1:40.4 | dietary protein intake really seem to be in that 1.4 to 1.7 gram per |
| 1:46.1 | kilogram body weight that's just for resistance training adaptations also for |
| 1:50.7 | hypertrophy and endurance athletes. |
| 1:53.0 | That's kind of like the general guideline right now. |
| 1:57.0 | And actually that's new data that was recently just published in the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. |
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