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RE: Top Five Reasons to Prioritise Protein
Protein is essential, but also genetics play a huge role. Look at elephants and the muscle mass they have just by eating grass. Look at bulls...huge mass with basically no protein. There is more to this, someone might figure it out one day... Great post, keep it up @muscleroast.com
Genetics definitely play a huge role - elephants and bulls are genetically very large creatures who are designed to eat grass. I'm sure there is protein in grass, the same as there is in many of the plant based foods we eat! I'm not going to try and look up the nutrient break down of grass, however ;)
Elephants are ruminants which create protein from the grass through fermentation. So really they are consuming a lot of protein actually.
Thats true but for a 700 lbs animal, there is no explanation other than genetics. They get to 150 lbs just by drinking milk. If a person is way bigger than another person it does not mean they eat more protein. An ecto morph is just genetically smaller. Protein helps grom muscle after its torn down, and bulls laying down 10 hours a day digesting grass doesnt look like a workout to me. Protein is important we all know, but genetics are genetics and more powerful than anything.
Yes obviously the comparison of elephants to humans is flawed from the start. I just wanted to point out that we don't have a second stomach