Grams per kilogram of what? The denominator problem in protein guidance
The practical difficulty is not knowing the target. It is meeting it on an appetite that has been pharmacologically reduced by half.
Exercise
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The advice is mostly reasonable. The certainty is not earned.
A tour of the source literatures, with an assessment of how far each legitimately reaches.
Lean mass is a compartment, not a tissue
The instrument determines the answer more than the drug does, and the trade quotes the answer without naming the instrument.
What the older diet-and-exercise trials found in the hip
The evidence base is one secondary analysis, several small studies and a large amount of extrapolation from bariatric surgery.
Why the bone question is harder than the muscle question
What the Journal would want measured before treating this as settled in either direction.
Bone density during rapid weight loss: what is known, which is less than you would hope
Weight loss reduces bone mineral density at load-bearing sites. Whether that translates into fractures in this population is unmeasured.
Why the bone question is harder than the muscle question
Weight loss reduces bone mineral density at load-bearing sites. Whether that translates into fractures in this population is unmeasured.