{"id":25639,"date":"2025-04-09T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25639"},"modified":"2025-04-09T09:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:27:48","slug":"is-more-protein-better-for-you-fact-checking-claims-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25639","title":{"rendered":"Is More Protein Better for You? Fact-Checking Claims on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s a common refrain on social media. We fact-checked this and five other big protein claims circulating online.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re in a protein craze, and it\u2019s hard to ignore.<\/p>\n

Walk into any grocery store and you\u2019ll find rows of protein-fortified energy bars, breakfast cereals, baked goods, snacks, even sports drinks. And on social media, influencers \u2014 many with medical or scientific degrees in their bios \u2014 claim that most people are woefully deficient.<\/p>\n

\u201cLadies, you\u2019re NOT eating enough protein,\u201d Dr. Elie Jarrouge, a doctor in Houston wrote to his nearly 80,000 followers<\/a> on Instagram in February. Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, another Houston-based physician, said in a recent video<\/a> on TikTok that the federal recommendations for protein are \u201ctotally wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the most well-known protein proponents is Dr. Peter Attia, a physician, podcaster and author who advises and invests in various protein-related food companies<\/a>. In his best-selling book, \u201cOutlive,\u201d he says that the federal recommendations for protein are \u201ca joke,\u201d suggesting that most healthy and active people should consume nearly three times as much.<\/p>\n

In a 2024 survey<\/a> of 3,000 U.S. adults, 71 percent said they were trying to consume more protein \u2014 up from 59 percent in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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So, are the federal recommendations wrong? Would most of us benefit from eating more protein? Or is the obsession just another passing health fad?<\/p>\n

The New York Times reviewed dozens of studies and interviewed 12 nutrition scientists, many of whom have been studying protein for decades. All of them agreed that we need more research on the topic, but the science we do have clarifies some of the confusion. Here is a fact-check of six big protein claims we\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a common refrain on social media. We fact-checked this and five other big protein claims circulating online.We\u2019re in a protein craze, and it\u2019s hard to ignore.Walk into any grocery store and you\u2019ll find rows of protein-fortified energy bars, breakfast cereals, baked goods, snacks, even sports drinks. And on social media, influencers \u2014 many with medical or scientific degrees in their bios \u2014 claim that most people are woefully deficient.\u201cLadies, you\u2019re NOT eating enough protein,\u201d Dr. Elie Jarrouge, a doctor in Houston wrote to his nearly 80,000 followers on Instagram in February. Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, another Houston-based physician, said in a recent video on TikTok that the federal recommendations for protein are \u201ctotally wrong.\u201dOne of the most well-known protein proponents is Dr. Peter Attia, a physician, podcaster and author who advises and invests in various protein-related food companies. In his best-selling book, \u201cOutlive,\u201d he says that the federal recommendations for protein are \u201ca joke,\u201d suggesting that most healthy and active people should consume nearly three times as much.In a 2024 survey of 3,000 U.S. adults, 71 percent said they were trying to consume more protein \u2014 up from 59 percent in 2022.So, are the federal recommendations wrong? Would most of us benefit from eating more protein? Or is the obsession just another passing health fad?The New York Times reviewed dozens of studies and interviewed 12 nutrition scientists, many of whom have been studying protein for decades. All of them agreed that we need more research on the topic, but the science we do have clarifies some of the confusion. Here is a fact-check of six big protein claims we\u2019ve seen.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25641,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25642,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25639\/revisions\/25642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}