This is an interesting article for all fitness fetishes that think that "more" protein is essential for muscle hyperthropy.

About The Debate

 

What you’re about to read is a protein needs debate between John Berardi, Ph.D. of the University of Texas at Austin and Stuart Phillips, Ph.D. of McMaster University in Ontario. Be prepared; this isn’t your typical Internet debate between two partially brain damaged 17 year olds calling themselves biggunz252 and punkmass101. This is an intellectual argument between two established experts working in research labs on the very topic of the debate.

This debate came about via a "journal club." In Ontario, there’s a small community of scientists, coaches, and students who get together periodically (via email) for this club. What happens is that each month one member of the journal club sends out a bunch of articles for the others to read and later discuss. Ideas, debates, future research and coaching strategies are derived from these sessions.

Recently, the journal club topic was protein needs and two articles were up for discussion. The first was a T-Nation article by John Berardi entitled The Protein Prejudice. The second was a scientific review article by Stuart Phillips entitled Protein Requirements and Supplementation in Strength Sports.

After discussing these articles, the members of the journal club invited Drs. Berardi and Phillips to debate the issue. This debate is what we’ve published below. To get the most out of it, you may want to follow the links above and check out what started the whole fracas.

Read the complete article here.