Protein. Protein. Protein. When tired of protein, eat some more protein.
Your
in jest post highlights the need for such specialized nutritionists who are constantly evaluating and incorporating the latest discoveries.
The human body can only absorb & utilize a given amount of protein over a given amount of time. So
more protein quickly ceases to be more
muscle--just more expensive poop (or worse, screwing up other bodily systems)!
Today's sports nutrition is about tricking the body's natural processes to greater efficiency without creating new problems, while maximizing and coordinating supporting factors such as hydration, sleep, mental health, and 24-hour metabolic cycle around
each type of exercise. On a day-to-day basis, it's kinda like designing a battleship--improvements in one area require borrowing from another area. The trick is to manage it over time so that the called for improvements have been made in all areas by a certain date.
But the nutritionist has to accurately understand each athlete's body & metabolism down to the cellular level, and then understand each athlete's psychology, so that she's pressing the right buttons to get each athlete into the most conducive frame of mind. The more we learn about human anatomy, physiology, and cellular metabolism... the greater our appreciation of the intricate, multi-systems, molecular-level design job
done by chance + time.
I say money well spent, as these athletes will learn things they can apply over a lifetime, and also pass down to their own children.