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I was reading https://mennohenselmans.com/protein-is-not-more-satiating-th... yesterday, trying to understand the role of protein in satiation.

It makes the case that roughly 15% of calories is what we should be eating, which is the proportion in the average diet. The basis for this is the protein leverage hypothesis, which states that when protein falls below roughly 15% of our diet, we overeat to compensate. 15% of daily calories corresponds to 1.2g/kg/d, substantially more than the suggested 0.75g/kg/d from the BBC article.

I'm not sure that it's correct to say we eat too much protein for our level of exercise. It seems like it might be more accurate to say we exercise too little for our natural level of protein consumption.