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Ok here is a great article on how much protein one should eat...

Many people have a true worry of overeating protein in an exceedingly single meal as a result of they’ve been led to believe that the body will solely use most in an exceedingly single sitting.

This is a “truth” that’s been floating around for FOREVER.

But is it truly true?

How much protein will the body absorb in one meal?

The usual recommendation is 25-30g or thereabouts. to any extent further and your body won’t use it for muscle building functions and you’ve wasted it slow (and money).

It’s a matter that comes up currently and once more on the forum and on facebook, therefore I’ll address it currently.
How Much Protein will The Body Absorb In one Sitting?

You DON’T got to worry regarding overconsuming protein in an exceedingly single meal. Your body will and can use it.

Before I sat right down to draft this text I had an enormous (and I mean BIG) steak. That unhealthy boy can most likely offer me 60g of protein, if not alittle a lot of. And my body can use it all.

If the parable were to be believed, my body would solely use a most of 30g of that protein, and another 30g would be totally wasted.

But since protein from an entire food supply digests pretty slowly, I’ll still be obtaining the like that steak several hours from currently. an informed guess for the speed for absorption here would be 4-5g per hour for the steak. However, couple it with the fibrous veggies and cheese I had with it and we’re most likely talking around simply 3-4g of protein per hour.

A whey protein shake on an empty abdomen can deliver your protein abundant faster at regarding 10g per hour.

Either approach you slice it, the thought that you’ll flip catabolic if you don’t eat three0g of protein each 3 hrs is simply not true. you'll still be in an anabolic atmosphere i.e. amino acids can still be being released and shuttled to your muscles.

However, you'll still would like energy normally to support the anabolic method, therefore I’m not advocating you eat all of your daily food in one or a pair of servings.

There are variety of things that may have an effect on the speed of absorption:

Type of protein e.g. whey isolate or a steak?

The last time you ate – are you having it on an empty stomach?

What are you eating it with? On its own or with fat and carbs?

The fiber content of the entire meal – a lot of fiber equals slower absoption

But curiously even the fastest methodology, whey alone in water on an empty abdomen, still takes hours to be absolutely digested an utilised. therefore if you took 50g rather than 30g, yes you'll still use it.

But you actually shouldn’t be obtaining plenty of your protein from a liquid supply. Get your protein from food with one or a pair of shakes max throughout the day, one being immediately when your workout.

So what’s the take home message here? The analysis on this isn’t 100 percent crystal clear as there are variety of variables to be taken into account: Trainee age, coaching intensity, total quantity of protein given per day, style of protein administered, and so on.

What is clear is that eating say four times per day goes to be a minimum of as effective as six. There’s nothing wrong with eating six smaller meals per day either; if that suits you, go for it. however if it’s burdensome, drop it and move to a 4-meal frequency.

If that has you eating 50g of protein per meal, you’re doing simply fine :) . Don’t sweat it.

I’m not assured enough to advocate a lower frequency than that simply nonetheless. As a lot of analysis is finished on this, we’ll a lot of doubtless have a clearer image.

Eat massive Steaks & Enjoy! :D

Mark McManus, trainer & author of the NEW fat-torching system “Total Six Pack Abs”