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Introducing Professor Stuart Phillips, a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health at McMaster University. He is a Professor in Kinesiology, an Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine, and a fellow of both the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American College of Nutrition (CAN).

Dietary protein explained. There are 20 amino acids that make up dietary protein, nine of these are essential for us to get through our diet as we can’t make these ourselves. Because all the tissues in our body are broken down and regenerated on a daily basis – this is called protein turnover – protein is one of the only macronutrients that we have a daily need for. Professor Phillips gives us a great analogy to explain this process. The other two macronutrients are fats (which we also need to eat) and carbohydrates (which we can get away with not having).