Muscle protein synthesis window — my results so far

Dr.Martinez said:

DEXA scan update relevant to protein intake: Scanned at months 0, 6, and 12.

Agreed on the ranges, with the condition that a single DEXA is not a measurement, it is one draw from a distribution. Hydration status moves the lean compartment by a kilogram or more between scans, so any comparison of scans done at different times of day or different hydration states is noise.

Worth separating that from lean-mass preservation, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.

SleepDoc_PDX said:

Agreed on the ranges, with the condition that a single DEXA is not a measurement, it is one draw from a distribution.

Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction.

SleepDoc_PDX said:

Agreed on the ranges, with the condition that a single DEXA is not a measurement, it is one draw from a distribution.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.

Moderator note: the sourcing question belongs in the vendor section and has been split out. Carry on.