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Originally Posted by Traps
So this study suggest that a total intake of 140-160g of protein would be best utilized if each meal contain about 30-35g of protein. This would equate to about 4.5 meals per day that consisted of protein. If I did my math right. I didn't have time to read the whole thing to see if they mentioned the frequency.
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Not resitance trained, and not specifically examining the entire benefit of protein. It was a small piece in one of Dangins review papers which is also available online, comparing leucine balance and a full feeding (all macros rather than just protein) situation between leucine matched and protein matched feeds.
Also not really examining maximal intake per meal, something that is completely unknown, but well in excess of the 30gram proposed level, that appears to be a runon from supplment companies out of the mid 80's
The closest we have from research is rate of urea production, as excess amino acids typuically are deaminated nad excreted as urea, and if you cannot form enough urea, you have a build up of nitrogen, ammonia nad end up in a generally shitty state. From memory the max protein for maximal urea synthesis is around 160-280gram area for a 180lb nontraining individual. but the research wasnt the greatest, especially as it did not allow for adaptation to the higher levels, allowing time for the urea synthesis process to be upregulated.