 Next question is from Nathan Teal. Are there any negative effects when consuming too much protein in one sitting? Yeah, the shit. Yeah, mostly, most of the negative effects you get are gonna be digestive for sure. Eating too much protein in one sitting for a lot of people can cause some pretty bad constipation, that's the biggest thing that I've noticed with clients. Aside from that, you're going to absorb the protein that you eat, I know there's a myth out there that says you can only absorb 30 grams or 40 grams of protein at a sitting. This is a myth that's put out by supplement companies. I used to think that was true. I know, me too, I used to tell clients that. Oh, after 40 grams, you're not gonna absorb it. But that's a myth because, of course, supplement companies, look at protein bars and shakes. How many grams of protein is typically in the serving, 30 to 40? Now that being said, though, wouldn't you agree that overwhelming your digestive system in one sitting could hinder how much of the absorption of the nutrients that you get? Well, you can get gastro distress. Right, that's what I'm saying. So I mean, there gotta be some value or some truth to that, right? Like if you go and have 150 grams of protein in one sitting, imagine the size of the meal that that is that you're trying to digest. And if you have problems with digesting that because of how massive of a meal and you're ingesting, are you getting all the benefits? That's like a huge brick in your stomach. Well, yeah, if you're bloated, inflamed, you got some low-level inflammation or you get diarrhea, does that affect your ability to absorb things? Probably. Will it affect your hormones? Probably, sleep, you know, I already said inflammation. So really base it off of your digestion. Now for me personally, okay, this is just me now, I have way more problems eating too many carbs at one sitting than I do protein. I can eat a, and I've done this before, I can eat a massive steak that's 100 grams of protein. And if I eat some vegetables with it, I'm totally fine. If I eat 70 grams of carbs at one sitting, sometimes it just really bothers me. So it's really an individual thing as well. A lot of my female clients did not do well eating a ton of protein at one sitting. This happened quite a bit when I would talk to female clients about increasing the protein intake. What some of them would do is they would get behind the eight ball, so they'd eat breakfast, they'd eat lunch and be like, oh crap, I need to eat 70 more grams of protein to hit my target. Then they'd have this huge protein meal and they'd be like, oh my gosh, I was just destroy their stomach. Yeah, I didn't feel good. I couldn't sleep, what was the deal? And so I said, okay, let's cut that down and see kind of what your limit is. And from my experience, for most clients, it could be pretty wide range. I've had clients who more than 25 grams bothers their gut. I've had people who can eat like I do. 100 grams at a sitting, it's not a problem. Well, and I think too, there's a training element to that as well. I remember talking to Christina Rice about how much protein that she was intakeing going through the carnivore diet, and it just blew my hair off. I couldn't believe it, but she had gone through and had all these autoimmune issues and things she was struggling through. So this is something that really was helping her out, but I was just amazed at how much protein that she could eat, and she's tiny. Yeah, I really think it just depends on how much it affects you. And I have seen this, right? Even if I have a client, because a lot of times too, Sal, you have to be pretty aware to know if you have digestive issues. People just think it's normal to have a little food belly afterwards. And sometimes it's a sign of something going on, right? Or you have some issues, but a lot of times people just, or they have the shits afterwards and they just think that's normal to feel that way. So you have to first become aware of that, right? Like how do I feel after I do this? What I would notice with clients that would cram all the protein in is their lack of motivation to wanna go do something afterwards. You know, after you have a massive meal. Lethargic. Yeah, you feel lethargic and tired and lazy. And even though their body maybe did digest at all and they hit their protein intake, but it now affects their movement and what they do afterward. If it's hindering that, then I would adjust what they're doing and say, hey, listen, I know you get behind protein all the time and we're hitting this 80 gram meal right here, but we'd be far better off if we cut that in half and get it in. Now, when you were competing and you were eating, you know, 220, 30 or 40 grams of protein a day, which I'm sure you were hitting at times, right? What were your increments? Did you find a number that worked well for you? I sure did, yeah, right around, no more than 70, between 40 and 70 was like my sweet spot. So more than 70 you need to feel good. Yeah, and that's also why I used to break the meals up. And I don't know if it was a calorie and a carb thing that went with that too, if it was so much the protein thing, right? So I'm saying what my grams of protein was, but it was also my carbs. I never took in more than, back when I was competing and I was, my body was adapted to taking in that, I was taking 600 grams of carbs in, right? So I could get 100 grams in a meal and be okay. Today I couldn't. Today, if I eat over 60, 70 grams of carbs like you, I feel completely bloated and lethargic afterwards from it because now I've gone the other direction. After doing keto and us kind of adjusting my macros, I haven't been that high of a carb eater since I competed. So, but I did notice a major difference in how I felt and how I performed by breaking up the small meals. So my body just, when you're eating that many calories, that much protein that I was eating and carbs for that matter, it was a lot easier to take in these 600, 800 calorie meals than to take in, you know, four of them that were, you know, 1500 calories. That just was daunting. Maybe one meal here and there, it would be okay, but to try and do four big 1500, I would just, I would feel like a terrible all day long. Yeah.