Whether you get your protein from chicken, tofu, milk, or fish, it doesn’t make your body burn more calories — the type doesn’t matter, only the amount.

Whether you get your protein from chicken, tofu, milk, or fish, it doesn’t make your body burn more calories — the amount of protein matters more than the source.

It doesn’t matter if your protein comes from chicken, tofu, or whey powder—your body burns about the same number of calories digesting it.

Your body uses a lot more energy to digest protein than it does to digest carbs or fat — up to 30% of the calories from protein are used just for digestion, while fat barely uses any.

Protein shakes make your body burn a little more calories at rest and after eating, but this doesn’t help you keep the weight off.

Diet-induced thermogenesis is significantly higher for dietary protein compared to carbohydrates and fats due to the energetic cost of protein absorption, metabolism, and amino acid synthesis.