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Bad Mother
- Sep 27, 2010
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To the OP....its going to vary with body type and activity level.
Usually when people ask this question, the user is referring to shakes or whey. Not too many guys wanna know just how much dry-ass chicken they can eat in one sitting. So lets take a closer look. The body absorbs nearly ALL the protein that you eat regardless of speed and quantity. However, the body utilizes only a fraction of the protein ingested for muscle synthesis. Protein is not used in whole form. Your body doesn't take a lactalbumin protein molecule from whey and splice it into your bicep. The protein undergoes hydolysis and is broken down into amino acids. Think of amino acids as the body's alphabet. The body can combine and arrange different sequences and quantities of amino acids to produce a nearly limitless number of proteins, the same way we make words from letters. BCAAs(branch chain amino acids) are like the vowels of this alphabet. BCAAs are used in a disproportionately larger number than the other amino acids, especially in muscle building. Whey, Egg, Meat, and even gay-ass Soy are all relatively rich in BCAAs and are thus good muscle building protein. Back to the topic...... So we have a large shake of protein and the small intestine sucks it all up. Hydrolysis breaks all the protein down to amino acid components. Then the body takes what it needs for maintenance and various tissue synthesis, including your precious muscles. What happens to the rest? Here comes the bad news...it turns into fat. Bullshit you say....no tub-tub, watch and learn. Excess aminos are difficult to store so the handy-dandy liver snatches them up and sends them through a complicated process called "gluconeogenesis." Literally, "to create new glucose." The body then takes the glucose produced and does this: glucose -> pyruvate -> acetyl~CoA ->(by Acetyl CoA carboxylase) -> malonyl~CoA -> fatty acids. And then those fatty acids go hang out behind your belly button or in your ass cheeks. The moral of the story, IMHO of course, whey is good for pre or post workout when a large influx of aminos is beneficial to the body. Unless you are way over your genetic limit in terms of muscle mass, I would restrict whey consumption to "as needed" and stick to whole food. "But, but, but I can't eat that much chicken." Ya, you can. Slow and steady is the name of the game. Eat small portions of high protein, low fat meats throughout the day. Lack of fat makes for speedy gastric emptying so you don't feel full for very long. The meats, being natural-state tissue are in different levels of protein structure ranging from primary(fast absorbing) to quarternary(slow absorbing). This gives the body a steady stream of aminos rather than large bursts that cannot be expedited quickly enough and are converted to glucose.
Usually when people ask this question, the user is referring to shakes or whey. Not too many guys wanna know just how much dry-ass chicken they can eat in one sitting. So lets take a closer look. The body absorbs nearly ALL the protein that you eat regardless of speed and quantity. However, the body utilizes only a fraction of the protein ingested for muscle synthesis. Protein is not used in whole form. Your body doesn't take a lactalbumin protein molecule from whey and splice it into your bicep. The protein undergoes hydolysis and is broken down into amino acids. Think of amino acids as the body's alphabet. The body can combine and arrange different sequences and quantities of amino acids to produce a nearly limitless number of proteins, the same way we make words from letters. BCAAs(branch chain amino acids) are like the vowels of this alphabet. BCAAs are used in a disproportionately larger number than the other amino acids, especially in muscle building. Whey, Egg, Meat, and even gay-ass Soy are all relatively rich in BCAAs and are thus good muscle building protein. Back to the topic...... So we have a large shake of protein and the small intestine sucks it all up. Hydrolysis breaks all the protein down to amino acid components. Then the body takes what it needs for maintenance and various tissue synthesis, including your precious muscles. What happens to the rest? Here comes the bad news...it turns into fat. Bullshit you say....no tub-tub, watch and learn. Excess aminos are difficult to store so the handy-dandy liver snatches them up and sends them through a complicated process called "gluconeogenesis." Literally, "to create new glucose." The body then takes the glucose produced and does this: glucose -> pyruvate -> acetyl~CoA ->(by Acetyl CoA carboxylase) -> malonyl~CoA -> fatty acids. And then those fatty acids go hang out behind your belly button or in your ass cheeks. The moral of the story, IMHO of course, whey is good for pre or post workout when a large influx of aminos is beneficial to the body. Unless you are way over your genetic limit in terms of muscle mass, I would restrict whey consumption to "as needed" and stick to whole food. "But, but, but I can't eat that much chicken." Ya, you can. Slow and steady is the name of the game. Eat small portions of high protein, low fat meats throughout the day. Lack of fat makes for speedy gastric emptying so you don't feel full for very long. The meats, being natural-state tissue are in different levels of protein structure ranging from primary(fast absorbing) to quarternary(slow absorbing). This gives the body a steady stream of aminos rather than large bursts that cannot be expedited quickly enough and are converted to glucose.
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