Eating protein first at meals cuts overall calorie intake across mammals. Studies show that when protein makes up 10 to 40 percent of diet, higher protein means fewer calories eaten. Lab rats and mice fed high-protein diets ate less and became progressively thinner.
when you really start to eat protein first, like, all the struggle goes out the window, don't you think? Absolutely. And honestly, this occurs in pretty much all mammals. You can dial up the protein percent higher or lower of their diet, and the ad-lib caloric intake just goes up and down almost in a straight line from about 10 to 40% protein. And the higher the protein percentage of your food, the less calories you're going to eat, full stop. There's this incredibly linear zone there. You know, in lab rats and mice, you— we can feed them up to about 50% 100% of their calories from protein, and they'll just eat less and less and less and less and less and get thinner the whole time.
