Flow : Macros – The Proper Level Of Protein

Super super high levels of protein are unnecessary.

Probably 100g a day is enough, making the usda 60g a day recommendation closer to accurate than not. I don’t see a gram per pound as being necessary. 1.5-2g/lb or more? Damn!

Protein has a fat burning thermic effect. Yes, it is the building block of muscle, but it’s not what creates the anabolic environment.

Think of protein like brick sitting on a construction site. It ain’t building itself. Workmen are needed.

Saturated fat is the best macro for creating the necessary environment.

Just like with carbs you can take in a lot of calories via saturated fat.

Heavy cream, butter.

Carbs are really an energy source.

Protein in a primal sense is firstly going to be had with very high quantities of saturated fat, and isn’t going to be just smorgasborded down by itself or in huge quantities.

A 250lb guy trying to get 500g protein each and every day isn’t going to pull that off in the wild sans an occasional feast.

Farming allows the masses. Both in number of humans and in the size of each.

Hunting and even ranching just aren’t going to create the necessary calories worldwide for upteenth billion people.

You want mixed macros. The primal fat and protein diet is the better of the two extremes (between it and essentially carb only veganism), and you want to skew towards that end in general manner of eating, but you’re doing yourself a disservice not having carbs in addition.

Use everything available to you.

Between protein powder and meat always take the meat. Red meat, fatty chicken, a fatty meat, as for protein to be anabolic one must eat the fat with it.

You don’t need protein supplements. You’d be better off eating a bowl of ice cream, or drinking some heavy cream.

If you have 5000 calories coming in daily, and it’s roughly an energy balance, you’re gonna be a monster. And on the high end, only 800-1000 of those calories will come from protein. The rest saturated fat and carbs.