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Protein is very important. The more you work out the more you'll need but you're taking it to fill a need not to get a boost. Even when doing weights (need more to provide building blocks for growth than for maintanance or daily functions) you are only taking what you need.
Taking protein does little for muscle growth without setting the muscle up for growth. It facilitates growth but doesn't cause it.
Basically determine your needs and take what you need. Taking it won't give you a boost if thats what you are looking for. But taking the right amounts will fill your needs and allow your body to do what you want it to.
More isn't better! Just cause something can help doesn't mean you just take a bunch or take more andmore.
Even water can be toxic if you drink too much.
Figure out body needs (lean muscle mass, projected muscle gain, daily function etc) and take accordingly.
Protein is primarrily a building block.
The goal of sport nutrition is to build a better body so that it can perform better.
Generally there are few healthy ways to simply take something and hope for a jump.
It takes time. Give it the right stuff and stress it right(with balanced recouvery) and over time the body will grow better and better.
Muscle cells take about 6 months to fully turn over.
Provide your body with what it needs and avoid damaging things and in six months it will be that much better.
It can continually progress this way. The body learns to absorb and use nutrients better and better and as the body grows better and performs better it opens for more and more growth and function..
There is no microwave fix all.
Put in the good, exercise right, rest right(the only time for growth), avoid harmful substances and it gets better and better.