
The Optimal Protein Podcast
PROTEIN SERIES: Get Effortlessly Lean by Eating Protein: How it Can Help You Burn Fat and Achieve Body Recomposition
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25 Nov 2021 · 39 min
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Hi friends! This episode is all about exactly how protein helps us to burn fat and recompose the body to get effortlessly lean! I talk about how protein actually not only triggers muscle protein synthesis but this process itself is very energy intensive and therefore depletes stored glycogen in the muscle, which then enables us to burn body fat! This explains the thermic effect of food (TEF) whereby around 30% of the calories ingested when eating protein are lost. Very exciting theory! This epis