Why Women Over 50 Need WAY More Protein Than You Think
5/29/202635 min
The protein fix for women over 40 that doesn't require tracking, measuring, or losing your mind.
Most protein advice was literally designed to make you fail. And the studies it's based on? Done on young athletic men. Not you.
What nobody tells you about protein in midlife, the real talk on why you're not absorbing it, how much you actually need, and the fix that doesn't require an app or a food scale.
Chalene Johnson spent years obsessing over macros, scanning every package, and still feeling like she was failing every single day. At 57...
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First 90 secondsChalene Johnson· Host0:00
Whether you're on a GLP-1, you're trying to gain muscle, you just want better hair or nails, whatever it is, you're aging, you know you need more protein. And if you give me just a few minutes, I can almost guarantee I can solve the protein problem for you. You see, one of the biggest reasons why women struggle with this, I think, is because people have completely overcomplicated this. They've given us yet another job, another thing that we aren't gonna measure up at, that we've been set up to fail. We have to download another tracking app. We have to buy a food scale. We have to scan our food. We have to calculate our macros and understand the ratio and the percentages and the kilograms, and it's just so much to obsess over. And this is just a theory. I believe that women are so stressed out about all the rules that we have to follow, and that stress causes us to hold onto fat. I know that's what happened to me. I never tracked-- I didn't even know what macros were before I started doing fitness infomercials, and now here I was selling workout programs, and I was kind of brainwashed into obsessing about my body and obsessing about all the rules. Everybody was counting their calories. I mean, like, I obsessed over my macros like I was a forensic accountant. I mean, we all feel this pressure, but when I was in that role, I really felt a ton of pressure to get it right, to get it perfect. Because if