Welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina.

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host Vanessa and I am so excited

for today's episode. We have Dr. Lee Breen joining us. He is one of the world's foremost experts

on protein research. His research has focused on understanding the

mechanisms of skeletal muscle plasticity and developing targeted exercise and nutritional,

mostly protein-based approaches to enhancing the remodeling and building of skeletal muscle, the function

and performance in both metabolic health and avoiding disease. He currently is at the University

of Birmingham and he has published over 100 peer-reviewed research articles in this space,

some of the most cited research

when it comes to understanding protein and how it can support our bodies in terms of growing

muscle optimizing metabolic health and lean body mass. So on today's episode, we talk about

some of my favorite topics,

Lucene, how it works with regards to fat loss, muscle metabolism, optimizing your meal

frequency, what he thinks is the number of protein meals that should be consumed in a day

to optimize muscle hypertrophy or muscle growth and what his thoughts

are on eating 100 grams of protein, the incredible study that came out in December showing no

upper limit on muscle protein synthesis and so many of my favorite topics. We really focus in on nutrition for body recomposition, fat loss,

and building muscle. In the first half of the episode and the second half, we talk about some of the

research that he has done in aging populations and some of the challenges that come along with

helping certain populations really optimize both their

resistance training and nutritional approaches to stimulating muscle protein synthesis.

So it really is a wonderful, well-rounded conversation.

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