How Much Protein Can You absorb At One Time?

The biggest protein myth is that you can only digest 30 grams of protein at one time. Find out what's wrong with this trust and just how much protein you need. This is a tasteless question. I also get variations such as, how much protein can you digest at one time?

There are two ways to retort this, because there de facto two questions being asked.

1) How much protein can the digestive principles physically digest into the bloodstream from a meal?

And the More important Question...

2) How much protein can you body de facto utilize?

The answers...

1) About 95% and higher, unless you have some type of digestive principles malfunction.

So if you get convinced by supplement associates to drink a 42g protein shake in 5 minutes, you'll still probably digest at 38 or more grams of that protein.

Your muscle increase is not little by the amount of protein you can digest or Absorb.

Your muscle increase Is little by the amount of protein that your body can apply for protein synthesis.

So the retort to #2...

2) A lot less than you think.

You de facto don't need 40, or 30, or probably even 20g of protein per meal to keep your protein synthesis humming along. See food Help specialist Brad Pilon's post on "How Much Protein Do We de facto Need"

Any protein that your body can't use for increase will be shuttled into a process where it is broken down (de-aminated: meaning the nitrogen is removed from the molecule and it becomes a carbon skeleton) to be used in energy pathways.

Now, there are benefits for eating extra protein (in my opinion) when dieting, in general that it helps to suppress appetite.

But the bottom line to the request I am asked practically daily is...

a) Your body can digest and digest practically all of the protein you eat without problem.

b) Your muscles can only do so much with protein...the muscle increase process is Rarely, if ever little by the amount of protein we consume. practically all of us can de facto get adequate protein for maximum muscle increase without the need for eating 50g of protein 6 times per day. Ronnie Coleman, Jay Cutler, and Gunter Schlerkcamp excluded, of course.

Overall, I'd think twice about the need to slam down a 40-50g protein shake...just think of the children and puppies you'll save by not gassing them out with protein farts.

Real food should cover all your protein needs.