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that 2g/lb a day is horseshit.
NOBODY will use that.
300g a day = 240 pounds of protein a year. u gain how much muscle mass a year after a while? 10 pounds? 8 pounds? and u need 240 pounds to achieve that?
and muscle is 70 percent water by weight.
even if u gained 20 pounds of muscle "mass" in a year its only 6 pounds of actual tissue. the rest is fluid.
but go ahead and "believe" the more u eat the more/faster u will gain "mass"
it aint gonna happen. what WILL happen is you'll spend way more money on protein sources than yr body can possibly use for growth.
The point is to keep the entire blood stream saturated with amino acids 24/7, so that any cell in the body, at any time of the day, that needs any amino acids, will always have a plentiful supply. Obviously, most of the amino acids will not be used. But there will be plenty available when needed.
You ought to follow Layne Norton. He explains this stuff very well. Dude has a Ph.D. specifically in protein metabolism.