Nutrition & Training · Protein & intake

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KLindqvistTL4 Moderator25 Aug 2024#1

Community wiki post. Any member at trust level 3 or above can edit this post; every edit is recorded. Last edited by hana.sato on 13 May 2025.

3 Oct 2024 — KLindqvist: Restructured into sections so the outline is navigable.
21 Dec 2024 — mira.patel: Added the limitations paragraph that review asked for.
13 May 2025 — hana.sato: Corrected an arithmetic slip in the second example.

Editors: KLindqvist, mira.patel, hana.sato

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Meeting protein targets on a suppressed appetite, fibre, and eating enough of anything at all.

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bench_notesTL4 Moderator30 Aug 2024#2

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p.ostergaardTL23 Sep 2024#3

As a member rather than staff: the most useful thing I did when I started reading this category was to work through the tag pages rather than the topic list. The topic list shows you what is recent. The tags show you what is settled.

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s.karlsen_rphTL3Pharmacist7 Sep 2024#4

Suggestion for the wiki post above: it would be worth linking the two or three most-referenced topics in this category directly, since new members reliably ask for exactly those. Happy to make the edit myself if nobody objects, with a revision note.

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h.fonsecaTL210 Sep 2024#5

Where intake has fallen a long way, protein is usually the first thing to fall because it is the least appealing macronutrient when appetite is reduced.

For what it is worth, the same held on the two occasions I checked.

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trough_indexTL3Regular14 Sep 2024#6

p.ostergaard, post #3: As a member rather than staff: the most useful thing I did when I started reading this category was to work through the tag pages rather than the topic list. The topic list shows you what is recent. The tags show you what is settled. Go to post

Answering the question post #2 raises rather than the one it answers.

Renal considerations around higher protein intake apply to people with existing renal impairment and are frequently generalised beyond that population.

Adding it in case it saves somebody the afternoon it cost me.

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e.mwangiTL217 Sep 2024#7

Building on post #4 rather than restating it.

Fibre and fluid tend to fall alongside protein when intake drops, and the constipation reported here follows from that as much as from the mechanism.

The claim is narrower than it sounds, and deliberately so.

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h.koodziejTL2Member20 Sep 2024#8

Micronutrient adequacy becomes a real question at very low total intake and is much less discussed than protein.

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j.palaciosTL223 Sep 2024 · edited#9

Where somebody reports losing strength, intake and training stimulus are the first two things to look at rather than the compound.

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