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by H1Supreme 900 days ago
> Eat 1g of protein per pound of body weight

I believe it's 1g per pound of "lean" body mass.

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There are many different rules of thumb on this floating around. 1g per lb of body weight is indeed something a number of well informed people recommend, but those people generally acknowledge that it’s something like an upper bound on the amount that is useful.