No. I don't get down in the weeds with my food. A very large reason is that my wife cooks from approximately 600 dinner recipes, almost all of which start with raw ingredients. I value my time and don't think calorie or other counting is a good use of it. However, I remember an interview with Lance where the reporter asked him how he kept track of his calories when he was trying to lose weight. He said, "I just look at the package label." If you're a natural foods cook like my wife and I, you don't buy anything that comes in a package.

As my sig says, I look at my results and then modify if I see deficiencies, which takes almost no time at all. So I simply varied the whey quantity up and down until I found the amount, above which results did not improve. And there are more results than just recovery rate. Too much protein is bad for our kidneys and that shows up in blood tests, which I get once a year. Thus this has been a long-term project focusing on results rather than research, though I've done a good bit of that, too. However it only matters how your diet affects you, not some study participant. We're all different and our workout regimes differ.