The One Number That Matters More Than Your Protein Intake
How much protein do you really need after 50? And do protein shakes actually build muscle, or is something else doing the heavy lifting? In this episode of The Habit Healers Podcast, I dig into the research on protein, age-related muscle loss, and healthy aging, and what I found might surprise you.
I’m Dr. Laurie Marbas, and as a lifestyle medicine physician, protein comes up with my patients almost every day. So I went to the studies. A two-year trial gave healthy women in their seventies a protein shake every morning, and their muscle mass and strength declined at the same rate as the…
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