What protein intake does Dr Amie Hornaman recommend?

Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Amie Hornaman | The Protein You Need to Fight Aging_ A Crucial Tip!

12 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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Short YouTube clip (Aaron Hartman, MD upload) featuring Dr. Amie Hornaman discussing sarcopenia and the need to maintain muscle with resistance training and sufficient protein. She emphasizes protecting muscle, hair, skin, and heart, and gives a concrete intake recommendation for protein.

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One gram per pound of lean body mass.

You need more protein because of sarcopenia. We start to lose.
Muscle as we.
Age and we need to protect it.
We need to hold on.
To it for dear life.
And the one way to do that, outside of resistance training and lifting heavy.
So want to do that, you know, get some kind of, even if it's bodyweight resistance, air squats, push ups off of a bench chair, you, you have to have the protein on board to repair those muscles that you want to break down with resistance training and to protect those muscles and, you know, your hair, your skin, your heart, all of that good stuff. So, yeah, one gram per pound of lean body mass is my, is my advice for people.