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@nowhereman A lot of comments here are thinking that your protein is low, no idea why they're assuming that because unless you're a lot lower than the average american diet your protein is likely not limiting you much. Sure, maybe you could get 20% better results from going from 1.2g/kg to...

@nowhereman Yeah your protein is probably fine, track it a bit to check if you're well over 100g every day but otherwise don't stress about it. Ideal is to be at or above 1.6g/kg per day but who cares, it's not gonna be a huge difference if it's already close to adequate.

@nowhereman To be honest I don't have a great answer to that question. I think a lot of the nitrogen balance and other studies were done with people at healthy body fat levels, but I'm not sure how best to generalize that.

@nowhereman If you'd like some more reading, you can get some more advice from some actual experts: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/barbell-medicine-protein-recommendations/

@nowhereman 0.8g/kg is the common guideline for being a healthy human, but isn't optimized for athletes or hypertrophy results Less than 0.8g/kg would start to qualify as a low protein diet, and there are people who prefer to eat this way and it's not necessarily "bad" for you. Will definitely...