Gary BreckaHuman Biologist & Longevity Innovator

You’re Only Absorbing a Fraction of Your Protein

5 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube video (Gary Brecka) arguing that most consumers absorb far less protein from powders—about one third—especially whey; he promotes a product called "Perfect Amino" (all nine essential amino acids) as delivering the equivalent of 29 g of whey with 99% absorption, and suggests consuming amino acids directly instead of whole protein.

Questions this video answers

About one third.

29 grams of whey protein (equivalent).

99% absorption.

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You know, most people are actually getting protein powders wrong. You see 20 to 30 grams of protein on the label, and you think that you're absorbing all of that protein. You're not. You might be getting about a third of that protein, especially with whey. So this is perfect amino. This is the equivalent of 29 grams of whey protein, and you absorb 99% of it. So this is all nine of the essential amino acids. You know what a big fan of essential amino acids I am. Remember, protein breaks down into amino acids, and amino acids become the building blocks of proteins and can make collagen, elastin, fibrin. It can build muscle, can connective tissue, natural killer cells. All kinds of structures in the human body are made from amino acids. So you can actually skip the protein and go directly to the amino acids. That is the equivalent of 29 grams of whey protein, and it doesn't even break a f.