The Power of Eating More Protein with Dr. Don Layman
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
4.6 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Hi friends! Dr. Don Layman is BACK! This episode is all about the power of eating more protein than the Reference Daily Intake (RDI), why and how the RDA (now called RDI) was originally set as low as it is, how much protein is optimal for each person to eat, what muscle protein synthesis is, and MUCH MORE!
Dr. Donald Layman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Layman has been a leader in research about protein, nutrition for athletic performance, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular health. Dr. Layman has over 100 peer-reviewed publications.
He has received numerous awards for his research from the American Society for Nutrition and the National Institutes for Health and for his nutrition teaching. Dr. Layman currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior and on the editorial boards of Nutrition & Metabolism, and Nutrition Research and Practice. Dr. Layman has an extensive consulting background including work with NASA, the Shriners Children's Hospital, the US Air Force plus numerous food companies and organizations including Kraft Foods, Nestlé, Agropur and the National Dairy Council. Dr. Layman earned his doctorate in human nutrition and biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fast Keto. I'm your host, Ketogenic Girl. |
| 0:05.7 | Did you know that your body can actually be either a sugar burner or a fat burner? |
| 0:12.0 | On this podcast, we talk all about how to make your body a fat burning fat-fueled machine |
| 0:18.0 | and engaging your full metabolic flexibility. I'm Vanessa Spina. I am a |
| 0:23.4 | sport nutrition specialist, a biomedical science student at U of T, and I am the author of the |
| 0:31.5 | best-selling cookbook keto essentials available on Amazon and creator of the Ketogenic Girl Challenge |
| 0:37.0 | program. And I am obsessed with |
| 0:38.9 | optimizing our health through all these different biohacks, ketogenesis, intermittent fasting, |
| 0:45.2 | all of these amazing tools that center around making the body a fat-adapted, fat-fueled machine. |
| 0:52.8 | With this in mind, I present interviews to you with biomedical scientists, |
| 0:56.6 | physicians, and people from all around the world who have experienced remarkable results from |
| 1:01.7 | following a low-carb or ketogenic diet and getting their body into ketogenesis. So I hope you guys |
| 1:08.6 | enjoy these interviews with this goal in mind. Hey guys, welcome back to Fast Keto. |
| 1:13.9 | I am so pumped for today's episode. |
| 1:16.9 | We have Dr. Don Lehman joining us back on the podcast today. |
| 1:21.7 | He is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois and one of the world's top protein experts |
| 1:30.0 | in terms of how much research and studies he has actually done on protein and amino acids. |
| 1:36.6 | And he is such an incredible fountain of knowledge when it comes to protein. |
| 1:42.9 | Today's episode, we talk all about the optimal amount of protein to consume, |
| 1:50.4 | to make sure that your body composition is optimized with the lowest amount of fat mass, |
| 1:57.6 | the highest amount of muscle and lean body mass, and how to make sure that you are getting |
| 2:04.8 | enough. We talk about the current recommended daily amounts and his opinions on those. We talk |
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