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I agree. This is nearly the exact diet anyone with credibility has suggested for a long long time. If you get into the bro-science(which I believe tends to front run mainstream by a long ways), this is the diet every athlete and gym rat has been doing for years and years, with AMAZING results.

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The bro science would tell you the protein target is still too low too :)

That's starting to change... mostly in that exceeding 14g:1kg ratio mentioned in TFA is being shown to have worse results, so some more recent recommendations are that you need to get enough protein, but not too much.

My own opinion is that you should also get at least 0.5g fat to 1g protein as a baseline... more would be for energy in lieu of carbs.

> you should also get at least 0.5g fat to 1g protein as a baseline

And hormonal health

Isn't protein more like a catalyst than the building block? I.e. muscle is not built primarily from protein, it is built primarily from carbohydrates but protein is a necessary building block.

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