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Protein Evenness Checker

Show how skewed your current day is, so you can decide whether redistributing is worth changing your meals.

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Jespersen SE, et al. Evenness of dietary protein distribution is associated with higher muscle mass but not muscle strength or protein turnover in healthy adults: a systematic review. Eur J Nutr. 2021;60(6):3185-3202.
PMID 33550490
Systematic review of 15 studies on protein distribution evenness. · weight 1.0 · Associations were inconsistent: 3 of 7 studies linked even distribution to higher muscle mass, and only 1 of 6 linked it to higher muscle protein synthesis. Total intake matters more clearly than distribution.
Comparing even with skewed dietary protein distribution shows no difference in muscle protein synthesis or amino acid utilization in healthy older individuals: a randomized controlled trial. 2022. PMID 36364705; PMCID PMC9654411.
PMID 36364705 (verification gap: Journal name, volume and author list not captured in this run.)
Randomized controlled trial using deuterium oxide and intrinsically labelled protein in healthy older adults. · weight 0.8 · No difference in muscle protein synthesis or dietary protein utilization between even and skewed distribution when total intake was adequate.

Limits: Portion estimates are rough. The cited trials found that redistribution effects, where present, were smaller than total-intake effects, so treat the skew score as a prompt rather than a problem.

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