What you eat matters for both your health and the continued state of our planet. Welcome to Strength By Fitness deep dive on the way our nutritionally complete, higher-SPC food habits & coaching create a healthier, fitter you while also strengthening our planet.
Protein synthesis & its role in hypertrophy is, first of all, not the be-all, end-all of higher protein intake benefits.
So neither 1.6 nor 2.0g/kg/day represents a hard stop with no additional benefits from a higher protein intake. The reason why some people can claim that 1.6 is all that’s needed depends on how complete you want the conversation to be. But, when they make that claim, they are always, and only, talking about healthy, younger omnivores, and they are only looking at protein synthesis and hypertrophy. Seemingly doing so because they are convinced that human health, nutrition, and fitness never, ever go beyond these two things, and that everyone happens to be young, and an omnivore.
This is based on an incomplete understanding, or at least a limited perspective, on food, health, aging, and fitness.
Think of Earth as an almost closed-off circular system with a finite capacity to handle annual pollution, natural resource drain, natural loss, and imbalances.
Now, take roughly 9 billion humans and add our environmental impact together, and you are left with the mathematical reason why sustainability matters when we discuss healthy food habits and our individual nutritional intake.
Case A.
Beef requires roughly 20 times more land than nuts, and 35 times more than grains to produce the same amount of edible protein.