[sonick]

This whole protein convo with somebody asking how to "bulk up" and so the info was provided based on that. If you are not looking to "bulk up" then whatever was said is entirely irrelevant.

Ultimately, in my perspective it boils down to a few things:

• It's about matching protein intake to the demands of muscle recovery. The more intensely you work out, the more protein your muscles demand in order to fully recover.
• Assuming you eat a balanced diet (e.g. quality food, enough fibre), there is little studied downside to eating excess protein than what your muscles demand.
• On the flip side, if you eat less protein than your muscle recovery demands, you are leaving gains on the table; either the muscles recovering more slowly or don't rebuild / grow to the extent that they were exercised.
• In my experience, unless you have actually tracked your food intake, most people greatly underestimate the actual amount of protein they take in their normal meals in a day (particularly for carb heavy cuisines like asian food)

Imagine building a high-rise. The number of workers is like the demands of muscle recovery; the more workers the more potential to recover/grow quickly. However they need raw materials like concrete, which is protein.

If you bring on more workers but not enough concrete, the workers end up sitting around for part of the day twiddling their thumbs and you wasted a part of the day. If you bring more concrete than workers, then they work all day but you might have leftover concrete that you can't use and is wasted.

The more you work out the more workers there are, and the more concrete you need to maximize the capacity of the workers. If you're just sitting around all day or you are only working out once or twice a week, you won't have many workers to use much concrete.