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Your muscles aren’t made of just protein. They’re actually around 76% water (study). That isn’t to say that protein isn’t important. It’s just that since only a small portion of your muscles are made of protein, you actually don’t need to eat that much extra protein to build a staggering amount of muscle. The bottleneck…