I think it’s just marketing. Whenever I ask someone why he takes extra protein, the answer is almost always “for muscles to grow”. That’s not how protein even works. By not really doing anything and just taking extra protein, you build mass, not muscle, and now you see bunch of teenagers whose bodies look like 40 from behind and they just generally look fat, not strong.
Humans generally have enough protein intake to not think about it (last I checked, around 2.5% have deficiency, poor regions)
I think it’s just marketing. Whenever I ask someone why he takes extra protein, the answer is almost always “for muscles to grow”. That’s not how protein even works. By not really doing anything and just taking extra protein, you build mass, not muscle, and now you see bunch of teenagers whose bodies look like 40 from behind and they just generally look fat, not strong.
Humans generally have enough protein intake to not think about it (last I checked, around 2.5% have deficiency, poor regions)
If you are stressed out with tense muscles all the time, increasing your protein intake makes your muscles grow. A bit crampy at times though.