Why is protein required to build muscle?

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As far as I can tell all fitness blogs say you have to eat lots of protein to build muscle (with exercise). But why protein specifically? If excess calories from any macro can be converted to fat by the body, why do we need protein to build muscle? Couldn’t the body just use excess from any macro combined with weight lifting exercises to build muscle ?

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It aids in the recovery of repairing broken muscle tissue and strengthens it and reduces soreness.

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