protein

I was wondering how much protein your body can use at one time?

so many possible answers. depends on a lot of things. although a lot of places suggest around 50 grams in one sitting but i dont really know about that. I get 80 in one sitting quite often. cant really say whether it is all being used or not.

In one setting you should not be taking more than 30 grams of protein in for the average person. That is why the mealse are spread out 6-8 throughout the day. The maximum you should be taking in is 50 grams per setting but this is for a bodybuilder or high performance athelete.

The average protein intake per day should be from 1.2 - 1.6 grams of protein per day/lbs of bodyweight. In extreme cases you can up that to 2 grams per day when on cycle!!! Anything else is a waste.

It varies on the person.

I eat 100 grams post workout in a shake. In the last few months, I have not eaten a meal that consisted of less that 60 grams.

This definitely varies on the person. Also some people's sittings last 2 mins. other's last 45 minutes, there is no way to really answer this question. I personally go for about 300 grams protein daily...I weight 190, so that's about 1.6 grams/per lb. and I usually try to do this spread out between 7 or 8 meals/shakes a day. I've heard over 50 grams protein in a sitting is a waste, but I'm not sure how true that is. Maybe someone here knows?

I dont belive that anything over 50 grams at a time is a waste. First off it would make a huge difference if you ate 50 grams of whey vs. 50 grams of casien protein, digestions being much slower with the casien. And I dont belive that you will piss out the protein, if it isnt utilized for cellular repair and growth it will be turned into glucose and burnt as enery or converted into body fat.

I weight 225, if I ate 2grams per pound I would need to eat 450 grams per day, if I ate 6 meals a day that would be 75 grams per meal. If I ate 9 meals per day that would be 50grams per meal, but each meal would be 1hour 30min apart, so the previous meals protein would not have even been digest by the time I eat again.

It is person specific, I agree, but I would not suggest at the same time ingesting 100 grams of protein in one setting. Take yout total bodyweight and mucltiply it by 1.2-2.0 depending what you are training for, the higher if you want to build more muscle or are on cycle. Then divide that by the total amount of meals(including protein shakes/bars) that you have during the day. This final amount should be the amount you try to intake per setting. I personally try to take in 30 grams per setting, but would not exceed 50 grams/setting. It all depends on the person though, like I said before...

Hope this was of some help...Stay true to the Iron..

im wondering now, after being on a high protien diet/low carb that if extreme amounts of protien are really necessary for bulking,,,, becuase to put it simple our body really process carbs more efficently. so now im on a high carb/low protien diet, but of course i will use 40grams of protien 20 minutes after my work out to exploit my window of oppurtunity adn aid in recovery,, but can i have some response to this if anyone has ever tried switching diets

Well the 40 grams is a great idea post-workout. It is exactly what I do. Want to get that dose no later than 30 minutes, you are fine in that category. Excessive amounts of protein is not efficiently utilized by the body in one setting or an extreme amount in one day.

Just stay around reasonable amounts and you should be fine. I am trying to find an article that I wrote about this I was going to post. Looking on my old archived files as we speak. Will post the references for my article too.

One will definitely get bigger on a high carb/low(er) protein diet, however, if your carb intake is much higher than what your body needs, you body will, I say again, _will_ store it as fat (due to insulin spikes and other factors that I won't get into here). The key is finding the right balance of carbs and protein (and fat!) for your own body. The 1-2 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight is really only an average guideline. It goes without saying that you need a lot of calories to build up, and those calories should be high-quality calories. It was commonly believed that eating lots of carbs and low protein and then dieting down to lose the fat was the only you could gain. Now we know that if we fine tune that carb/protein ratio, we can gain a lot of quality muscle with a minimal gain in fat. (Now, if you are interested in cutting/losing fat, then it is the high protein diet you want.)

Having some carbs and protein directly after a workout is pretty much vital to your success if you are trying to bulk up. Your body is practically screaming for calories after a heavy, intense workout so that "window of opportunity" is wide open already. Waiting for 20 minutes will only lessen that opportunity to get your muscles the calories they need to be replenished and start the growth process.

Lord odin that sounds about right......

I think the body is able to store up to 80g and uptake 40g at one time

I think the body is able to store up to 80g and uptake 40g at one time

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I thought the body could store up to 120 gms but only for 10 hours or so and uptake of 40 grams was for fast whey proteins while up to 60 grams of protein from slower proteins could be absorbed (like eggs and casein)? i.e. 35 grams in first 30 minutes and another 25 grams for the following hour.