Preliminary Health Care Podcast

More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-often-should-you-eat-part-3-muscle.html Because of the complex nature of this topic, I’ve broken it down into 5 parts: the first installment is meant to raise your suspicions about traditional advice; here we’ll focus on the effect of eating frequency on muscle mass. The previous post dealt with fat loss, and later posts are on muscle mass and health & longevity. The final installment will discuss how to create a metabolism capable of “Infrequent Eating.” You may be familiar with protein as a nutrient in foods like meat and eggs. Besides that, nearly everything you think of as your body (hair, skin, organs, muscles, etc.) is made from specific types of proteins; hair protein is different than skin protein is different than the types of protein in your muscles. Proteins are made from smaller building blocks called “amino acids,” which are linked together; there are about 20 important amino acids—depending on the specific order in which they are