Jul 30, 2026 · 34 min · 10 segments
Protein is everywhere these days – from protein pasta to protein cereal – but do these foods actually deliver the benefits they promise? And…
Marily OppezzoGuest
Neha PathakHost
Okay, so it's basically the structural material of our bodies that we've heard it probably called the building blocks.
It's made up of amino acids and people think of protein, it's basically we have to eat it every day.
Protein makes up all of the things in our body, like enzymes, our hormones, our organs, our skin, our heart, our brain, our liver.
So unlike carbs and fat, which basically fuel our bodies and what we do all day, protein has a ton of other jobs.
So like carbs, one of carbohydrates roles is actually protein sparing, which means it does all the things like, hey, let me give the body energy so you can go do all of that other stuff.
And we need it every day because like carbs, we store as glycogen in our muscles and fats, we store as well fats.
And then we don't have a storage form of muscle and we're constantly breaking down and rebuilding things in our body.
So Luke Ben Loon is a researcher who famously talks about how we get a new arm every 80 days because our muscle is always breaking down, even if we're not like actively strength training, breaking down and rebuilding.
So let's talk a little bit more about protein in the sense that it's trending across social media.
Okay, so it's basically the structural material of our bodies that we've heard it probably called the building blocks.
It's made up of amino acids and people think of protein, it's basically we have to eat it every day.
Protein makes up all of the things in our body, like enzymes, our hormones, our organs, our skin, our heart, our brain, our liver.
So unlike carbs and fat, which basically fuel our bodies and what we do all day, protein has a ton of other jobs.
So like carbs, one of carbohydrates roles is actually protein sparing, which means it does all the things like, hey, let me give the body energy so you can go do all of that other stuff.
And we need it every day because like carbs, we store as glycogen in our muscles and fats, we store as well fats.
And then we don't have a storage form of muscle and we're constantly breaking down and rebuilding things in our body.
So Luke Ben Loon is a researcher who famously talks about how we get a new arm every 80 days because our muscle is always breaking down, even if we're not like actively strength training, breaking down and rebuilding.
So let's talk a little bit more about protein in the sense that it's trending across social media.
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