Nutrition's Hope Barkoukis gives advice on navigating the protein craze

How to help your patients navigate the protein craze

Medscape: Hope Barkoukis, chair of the nutrition department, explained how protein's many functions include promoting growth, repair and building. “By spreading it out, distributing it throughout the day, you’re going to have more time when your system has higher levels such that it’s in an anabolic state, vs just one big bolus at one meal a day,” said Barkoukis.