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Dylan16807last Thursday at 7:42 AM1 replyview on HN

You need to burn thousands of calories every day. Most of the protein you eat should get burned.


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theszlast Thursday at 8:10 AM

By storing 10g of fat (90 calories, 3.5%-5% of daily calories) per day you accumulate 3.5 kg of fat after an year. By eating protein that cannot be utilized by your body fully (wrong amino acid profile) you are storing extra fat and build less muscle.

Whey protein most probably would bound muscle protein synthesis by methionine available, and make substantial (I think 40%) amount of calories from leucine in it to be converted to glucose. Two 33g servings of whey protein can be converted to 1g of fat, just from leucine alone.

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