Two Studies on Higher Protein Diets for Improving Body Composition and Overall Health
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
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🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Hello my friends! Today's episode is a review of studies on protein intake: one Rutgers study on how a higher protein intake can boost retention of lean body mass during caloric restriction as well as influencing study subjects towards healthier options (I.e: organically choosing green vegetables over processed sugar and grains); and one study by Ohio State University on how most people are likely under-eating protein and how we need to increase protein intake recommendations for individuals based on their current stage of life, age, health condition and activity levels.
See below for the study links.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Vanessa, and I want to wish you a happy Thursday and a belated, happy international women's day. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm so excited for today's episode. We are talking about a couple of really interesting studies when it comes to the impact |
| 0:22.8 | of eating a higher protein diet on not only achieving better fat loss results, but also on maintaining |
| 0:30.3 | lean mass and on actually making healthier choices. |
| 0:34.2 | And the second study is actually about how most people are not eating enough protein. And we |
| 0:40.1 | actually go into protein amounts and recommendations for every single person in terms of where |
| 0:47.2 | they're at in life, whether you're a young person or a pregnant person or an elderly person or an |
| 0:53.9 | athlete. There's just so many different |
| 0:55.4 | categories where we have to adjust protein intake. And what these studies, both of them concluded, |
| 1:01.8 | is that the more protein you eat, the more you preserve your lean mass and your ability to |
| 1:07.9 | continue to have stamina and strength and enjoy your life because you are stronger |
| 1:13.9 | overall and you have a better body composition. And body composition, when it comes down to it, |
| 1:19.8 | really equals our metabolic health. And our overall health really comes down to how much |
| 1:25.2 | energy we have and how much our bodies are able to |
| 1:28.9 | keep up with that energy and so that we can do all the things that we want to do regardless of |
| 1:33.7 | which stage of life we're at. And there's so many different wonderful stages and we want to make |
| 1:38.3 | sure we're eating the right amount of protein for the stage of life that we're currently in for |
| 1:43.0 | the current goals that we have. And I'm super |
| 1:45.3 | excited to break down these two studies with you all. Now before we jump into the episode, |
| 1:50.2 | I want to tell you about a very important nutrient that many of us are deficient in and not |
| 1:56.1 | even aware of it. And that nutrient is light and specifically red light I am so passionate and obsessed with |
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