Category: Nutrition and Diet

Here’s something most adults over 55 don’t realize: the protein target you grew up with is probably too low for you now. The standard recommended dietary allowance — 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day — was designed for younger adults. But as we age, our bodies become less efficient at…

Here’s a question worth sitting with: when was the last time you thought about protein? For most of us, it was somewhere around high school gym class. Protein was for bodybuilders and teenage boys trying to fill out a football jersey — not for someone in their late fifties. But it turns out protein might…