#73. Protein and muscle adaptations to loading and unloading with Professor Luc van Loon

[@kostaspapazoglou2851]

Your choice of content and guests is invaluable to those who are actively engaged in optimising their healthspan and seek to implement performance-enhancing strategies by becoming properly informed and reassured by non-hyperbolic, non-dogmatic scientists! Cheers from Melbourne.

[@leniolesch896]

I enjoyed this conversation a lot. Real scientists untangling research. I really like how you try to translate the research into practical advice and showing the limitations. From an anecdotical point of view, I have the same experience as an endurance athlete that focusing on carbs is much more helpful than focusing on protein. Protein can be so filling and than I miss on carbs what decreases my performance.

[@insideexercise]

Great to hear. Thank you for taking the time to send this and your previous comments! Very pleased you enjoyed the conversation. See also my the Stu Phillips episode that had similar focus. I dream of the day this obsession with protein starts to diminish. They just need to take notice of the science not the hype.

[@leniolesch896]

Sure, you know the algorithm ;) I want more people to listen to you and your guests than influencers.@@insideexercise

[@hikerJohn]

Starting at 21:38 . . . Is this why it is said that you should eat a *bolus* of at least 20g of protein at any meal? So your gut has enough to share? I know it's oversimplified but I always hear 20g minimum bolus. I always shoot high and make sure I get at lest 30g in an after workout protein shake. Wait! What? HOW fast is muscle protein turnover??? I think he said 40 days but I read it was 1% to 2% per week. @ 1:13:11 - is the lack of anabolic stimulus related to a decrease in stem cells in older people? At least I read that is why we do not replace fast twitch muscle with more fast twitch muscle but with slow twitch muscle and why we heal slower. Not sure if it's related. Exercise stimulates muscle stem cell activation but what about stem cell *production*. It's the stem-cells that determine fast twitch vs slow twitch. He answered my question about testosterone at 1:27:05

[@insideexercise]

You shouldn’t need a protein shake. Just food. See also Stu Phillips podcast episode about how you don’t need to worry about having protein straight after exercise.

[@hikerJohn]

@@insideexercise Thanks, I'll watch that episode. Any comment on the other two questions?

[@insideexercise]

@@hikerJohn These aren’t my areas of expertise so wouldn’t feel confident answering. But I spoke with Benjamin Miller, Sue Bodine and Abigail Mackey about stem cells and Wim Derave about fibre types.

[@hikerJohn]

@@insideexercise Thanks! I absolutely LOVE this channel and it just keeps getting better as the go-to place for so much expert information.

[@insideexercise]

@@hikerJohn Fantastic to hear that. Thank you. 👍😊

[@gerrysecure5874]

Its so funny listening to real experts. Its just plain logic abd common sense, contrasting out of proportion fitness magazine/media hype spread by journalists or writers depending on attention, clicks and copies sold.

[@Kernoe]

how is normal food defined? How unprecise can one get?

[@insideexercise]

Normal food = not manufactured. Food that isn’t processed. So not supplements.

[@Kernoe]

@@insideexercise still very unprecise when informing people about protein in my opinion. But that is just my opinion. Because according to the talk it is just too much hype around protein and let's try to have less and even more carbs as an expirement. What is the diabetes university in kopenhagen saying about that? Oh i forgot, sugar in foods and diabetes are still not connected in universities.

[@Second247]

I think there has been certain amount of turn in strength&nutrition field of science. I listen alot people like Eric Helms and Eric Trexler, both have science degrees and are avid bodybuilders. They have been advocated high protein diets for bodybuilding contest preps because it keeps you full. But in last year or so there has been turning of approach. Potato or things of that nature might offer higher satiety, in fact white potato provided most satiety at least in one study. So they are turning away from high protein diets, and being major influencers in their field i think other are following. Thou i think they still recommend 2gr per kg, so protein is there, but that is achievable with balanced diet. However i think dry chicken breast as major source of calories still has it's own psychological effect on satiety control. But same could be said about plain potato as well.