• My last major article was on carbohydrates. Finally, 9 months later, the protein post is ready. I'm doing the last proof readings this weekend so that the grammar police aren't too rough on me :) And the article will be linked right here in the Saturday 7 next week. In the meantime I've put some teaser snippets on my instagram discussing raw vs cooked meat and the denaturing of proteins. 

• One of my favorite studies on protein is by Dr. Jose Antonio. It was "the first interventional study to demonstrate that consuming a hypercaloric high protein diet (5.5X RDA) does not result in an increase in body fat." 

• I remember my 1st physique competition. I was in my 3rd year of dental school, and it was a year or two before this study came out. For the competition I was easily eating over the 4.4g/kg/d (as discussed in the study) for 12+ weeks. And when I read this study when it first came out it validated so much of my prior experience of eating super high protein for body composition. The article next week will go much more in detail about this too.

• This was my favorite tweet of the week (clickable for full thread).

🕷 What stories I love reading:

• Julian is a 20 year old theater student. He is also quite talented at making special effect videos. He posted a video where he played the role of some of his favorite superheros and captioned it: "If ya'll can retweet this enough times that Disney calls, that'd be greatly appreciated." Disney's legendary chairman, Bob Iger, replied: "The world's gonna know your name!" Besides just being a feel good story, it also reminded me of an important lesson – sometimes all you have to do is ask.

• A couple months ago Colin Stuckert, founder/CEO Wild Foods, invited me on to his podcast. And since then, I've consumed more and more of his content because, perhaps above anything else (successful businessman, health advocate, family man), he is a ruthlessly independent thinker. This week he shot a video about why we should buy gold (and bitcoin).