Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show. I am a yoga teacher and trainer serial entrepreneur. I'm the

father of three kids. Firstly, I'm a student. I like to learn things. I use this podcast as a way

to connect with authors, experts, medical doctors, researchers, teachers all around the world.

I do my best to bring a distillation of their work here so we can all live more informed,

more inspired lives. If you're new here, the best way to support the show is to leave a rating

in whatever app you're listening on. If you have questions for the show, this is actually a Q&A

episode. By the way, you can message me directly on Instagram on at Lucas Rockwood.

I have a new program called Yoga Body Daily. If you'd like to train with me, we do stretch,

strength, and steps every day. I'm really excited about this. Lastly, I have an email list you

can connect with me at yogabody.com forward slash. Sign me up. This week's podcast is a departure

from our usual format. We haven't done a Q&A episode in over a year, so I have some questions that

I thought would be applicable to a broader audience that I have cherry picked. Hopefully they

are applicable to you or at least I handful of them are some on food, some on yoga stretching,

fitness, and typical health span topics that we cover often on the podcast and in classes.

First question here is from Gary. Gary says one gram of protein per pound seems like too much

more like half a gram per pound. Appreciate the question. Gary is referencing what we have recently,

well, let's say in the past two to three years, talked about here in yoga body land in terms of

managing hunger, staving off sarcopenia, and of course the opposite of avoiding sarcopenia is

building lean muscle mass. Why one gram of protein seems like a lot. It is a lot, Gary.

Do you need that much protein? No, nobody listening to this podcast is protein deficient.

There's a big difference between deficiency and an imbalance. An imbalance itself is not going to

create an immediate problem or raise any kind of red flags, but an imbalance can lead to dominoes

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