know fact : if you want me to look it up i will put in the time however i am also being lazy, and just for kicks i will tell (doctor, im guessing) op what is up...
some fernz (yes a plant) are closer to humans than apes... they acutally have more cromozones than humans - point is that 98% is wayyyy offfff the scale for being a good comparison... (if i put 2% dog poop in you protein drink would you drink it? offer it to you children? 2% is a lot... lets move on)
articles upon articles of info from people who have lived the study... lived it!! not researching something to disprove it before the study started. so studies are a dime a dozen... point is "do you really believe every thing you read?" lets move on...
the support for protein has been not just from the body building world... and clearly it is working for them (1 - 2 g per lb of body weight) it has come from the cycling world as well... an over trained (based on work load, resting HR, and power out put, as well as precieved effort) can do three seperate things to fix that, #1 rest (5 - 10 days), #2 active recovery (3 - 6 days) or
#3 eat 1 - 1.5 g per body weight to recover in 2 - 3 days
now from my own personal experence - and the only one that counts (as for i am the one that puts food in my mouth

) if i am not following my protein intake and lets say i only eat 100 g a day for a few days i get soar much quicker dont recover as fast... and my power out put and hr increase - that is for cycling. as for lifting it takes me days longer to recover...
so to end all of this protein in amounts of 1 - 1.5 are the correct #s for active intense athletes... zip zip
btw - op are you a doc or doc in trainning?