Quote: (01-17-2017 10:58 PM)John Michael Kane Wrote:
Wanted to get the forum's input:
I remember reading a while ago a study that suggested that consuming any more than ~20 grams of protein in one meal meant that the excess protein was pretty much ending up as waste product, and not metabolised by your body. Any comments on this? Do you try to space your protein consumption out over the course of a day, or do you down it pretty much all at once? Does it really matter? Have you seen results one way or another?
This question of protein and body processes all varies between the types and quantity of protein you consume. A steak can take 18 hours to break down in your gut and system so this idea that magic happens within a few hours that inhibits the next infusion of protein is not 100% correct IMO (but not 100% false either).
Your body stitches together its Amino needs quite efficiently as it needs them and it isn't as time sensitive as many believe, the right window is roughly more towards 6 hours where if the body has zero amino to stitch together then it will go looking for it in its stores within the muscle.
But Aminos are a by-product of the fact after the gut digestion, where meat can take a long time. Or, with supplements next to as little as 20 mins before the Aminos are extracted out.
If you consumed a bunch of supplements, protein shakes and BCAAs then had a light fish meal; then your body would indeed just dump away from the excess amino acids. In that short of a window it could have potentially broken down and processed all of those foods in a very quick manner, and in that time window, the body will stitch together what it needs and then just junk the rest.