• Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz
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    So I did a quick number crunch on this: To get to about 75kg of protein per day, let’s say you only eat lean turkey and drink protein shakes, you’d need 200kg of turkey and 200L of protein shake.

    You could probably make this intake more efficient, but however it goes in, I don’t think my body would like me eating 370,000 calories per day.

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      6 months ago

      But eating 370,000 calories per day WOULD change your body drastically.

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      6 months ago

      I wonder what he actually meant. 1g/kg maybe? That would be 125% of the RDA, which I don’t know if it’s a good idea but it’s certainly more reasonable than…that.

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        A common, reasonably evidence based, protein target for bodybuilding is 1-2 g/kg, with the cursed unit of 1g/lb being about the upper limit of what’s useful. That’s probably what this post is referencing.

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    Eating 76 kilograms of protein seems slightly excessive, would change my body drastically no doubt. /s

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      They might be referencing the rough math for daily protein consumption. It works out to about 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight for men and half a gram per pound for women.

      Or they could be a bat

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          This is a pretty common calculation for people who track protien intake in the US, since most people weigh themselves in pounds, and most nutritional information is provided in grams.

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          On US nutritional labels fats, carbs, and proteins are listed in grams, but we generally measure everything in pounds.

          When calculating your macro nutrition for weight gain the general recommendation comes out to about 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. This is just a coincidence, but makes finding out how much protein you need to gain muscle mass pretty easy if you know how much you weigh and given that all of our labels have that info in grams.

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        A gram per pound is overshooting it quite a bit unless you’re a vegan not minding your protein quality intake. The maximum effective protein intake is ~1.6g/kg (0.72g/lbs), more than that will just go to “waste” (energy/energy storage). If you’re steroids the limit is higher, but there’s currently no exact number on it.

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    6 months ago

    I think he meant to say 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. I see this referenced a bit. Still funny to imagine eating that much though.

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      6 months ago

      Cattle mutilations attributed to UFOs are actually just this guy trying to get his protein

  • jobby@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    Eat a single handful of Oleander leaves with a cupful of any drink you wish.

    Your body will change DRASTICALLY.