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Something that I read in the training forum earlier prompted me to post this. It said "drop calories by 50% one day per week to prevent protein uptake downregulation." This may be fluff, it may be something to seriously think about. I'm not sure. I read it as saying, you're body can become too efficient at digesting protein, and the protein starts to have less and less of an impact over time.
So my question is, can eating the same clean food every day become less beneficial over time?
Let's say I can tolerate eating the same meal for breakfast every day of the month, for months at a time. Eating the same thing for lunch every day, for dinner every day... you get the idea. Would the same thing happen over time as happens with lifting? Changing excercises every 3 to 6 weeks is recommended by lots of people, particularly on these boards. However, I've never seen anyone suggest changing what you eat every few weeks. I've seen suggestions to "re-feed" or increase calories for a period of time. But nothing about changing what particular foods those calories come from.
It could be the complete opposite as well. You're body gets so extremely good at digesting a certain food, that it's able to pull out every last bit of every meal.
I'd be curious to see what Alan or Mike says. To me, it just doesn't sound logical to compare muscle adaptations to your digestive system.
I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean about "protein starts to have less and less of an impact." Your body digests protein and uses it to rebuild tissue. If you eat more than your body uses, it's excreted through urine and, um... colon action (#2).
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Also consider the ridiculous source of that quote. I don't have any idea if protein uptake can become downregulated by eating an excess of calories and protein, but I'm certainly skeptical. I think in a calorie surplus you'd use all the protein the body needs and store the rest. If you then moved to a calorie deficit you'd use all the protein consumed that your body needs and there probably wouldn't be any left over. I don't think the body has changed what it's doing with the protein you're consuming.
I probably shouldn't post in this forum because I don't know that much about nutrition, lol. That post in the training forum just bugged me, lol. Sorry.
Lisa has got to be right.. Protien uptake downregulation sounds like a joke. Kind of sounds like that ABCDE diet from a while back where you starved yourself for two weeks then ate huge for 2 more...
There are a lfew of nutrition professionals that do recommend rotating your food sources regularly (rotation diet), usually to prevent food intolerances. Chek for one mentions it a lot, but I have heard more mainstream coaches mention it as well. I don't know how valid it is, but I've met bodybuilders who could not eat tuna anymore and poor college students that physically could not swallow oatmeal.
So much like you might change your workout but still pick exercises that fit your overall goal I think changing the foods you eat but keeping the same macronutrient profile would make sure that digestion stays optimal. But yeah I've got no clue on 'protein uptake downregulation' per se.
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It's good to change your diet up just to make sure you're getting all the proper nutrients you need. Different foods are high in different micronutrients. If you eat the same foods every day you'll be deficient in whatever micro's those foods don't have, even if they are 'healthy' foods.
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But this guy wasn't saying to change your sources of protein or to vary your food choices, he was just saying to decrease your total calories by 50% one day each week and his reasons for suggesting it were bogus.
It's good to change your diet up just to make sure you're getting all the proper nutrients you need. Different foods are high in different micronutrients. If you eat the same foods every day you'll be deficient in whatever micro's those foods don't have, even if they are 'healthy' foods.
That is a really simple and great way of putting it Jason B. I advise changing of diet the same as changing of training.
As far as anything related to this guy and is protein uptake etc...
I'm certainly an advocate of getting lots of different kinds of foods into my diet. At the very least you need to change it so you don't mentally start despising the idea of eating healthy choices.
I didn't buy into the suggestion from the other post. It just brought to the foreground something that I had been thinking about for a while.
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