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You’re Only Absorbing a Fraction of Your Protein

Name: You’re Only Absorbing a Fraction of Your Protein
Uploaded: 2025-12-05T14:21:46+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: Darrian Peck
Description: Short YouTube clip (by Darrian Peck) arguing that much of the protein listed on powder labels is not absorbed—often only about a third is absorbed for…

5 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube clip (by Darrian Peck) arguing that much of the protein listed on powder labels is not absorbed—often only about a third is absorbed for whey—and promoting an essential amino acid product ("Perfect Amino") presented as equivalent to 29 g of whey protein but 99% absorbable. The speaker asserts amino acids can be used directly by the body to build proteins and tissues.

Questions this video answers

About one-third ("you might be getting about a third of that protein, especially with whey").

"Perfect Amino" (referred to as an essential amino acid product).

Equivalent to 29 grams of whey protein.

99% absorbable ("you absorb 99 of it").

Chapters

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.