Zhang et al. use human studies and mechanistic work in mouse models to describe how leucine serves as the key amino acid derived from dietary protein to drive deleterious macrophage mTORC1 signalling and promote cardiovascular disease.
However you are incredibly closely related to one… Like the closest non-primate group to you
That’s why they use mice and guinea pigs over dogs or whatever else, they’re not too different to us and most things that are true in mice are true in humans
Actual nutritionists and dieticians have known that a balanced diet (ie enough calories and vitamins with good variation) has been the best diet we know all along, but every so often some upstart sees “X in excess is bad” and so tries to stop everyone eating X, when X in moderation is best
Good thing I’m not a mouse
However you are incredibly closely related to one… Like the closest non-primate group to you
That’s why they use mice and guinea pigs over dogs or whatever else, they’re not too different to us and most things that are true in mice are true in humans
Actual nutritionists and dieticians have known that a balanced diet (ie enough calories and vitamins with good variation) has been the best diet we know all along, but every so often some upstart sees “X in excess is bad” and so tries to stop everyone eating X, when X in moderation is best