three years of protein threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
three years of protein threads, summarised so you do not have to read them — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested. Strength retention is an imperfect but free longitudinal proxy: it is affected by neural factors and by being in a deficit, so it tracks tissue change loosely rather than exactly.…
Nothing here is a training or nutrition prescription. Targets and programmes are matters for somebody who knows your history and your training background.
Agreed on the error margin. Quoting a DEXA to one decimal implies a precision the method does not have.
Cosigning that protein gets harder precisely when appetite drops. That is the actual difficulty and it is logistical.
the scale cannot distinguish tissue types and never could
Are you comparing against your own baseline or against a published average?
the scale cannot distinguish tissue types and never could
ahmed_fonseca is right that protein becomes a logistics problem when appetite drops.
a single DEXA is a number, two is a comparison, three is a trend