You Don’t Need to Have Too Much Protein

Christie D'soza
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2 min readMay 19, 2018
Protein may be Harmful

Protein helps your muscles being happy and growling your stomach after an hour of eating. You’ll get exposure to humming metabolism when you eat protein.

Okay, these are pretty good things, happens to you but what if you overeat protein? Admittedly, the things occur, harm more than benefit.

Before going to get through certain weird ways of its eating, let’s have a look at important evidence of consuming protein excessively.

In Australia, a well known female bodybuilder spotlighted, who has taken excessive protein supplements, evidenced death. This highlighted many questions that whether a high level of protein in one’s diet should control?

In the report of USA Today, one of the death causes of Hefford was a use of supplements for bodybuilding.

She felt fatigued and weird, reported by her mother, later. Doctors discovered the cause in two days that she was suffering from urea cycle disorder.

Urea cycle functioning undertook ammonia and its excess quantity transformed in urea and excreted from the body.

Only 1 out of 1,800 people suffer from urea cycle disorder, only when blood stream failed to clear ammonia.

This accumulation catches brain results in dizziness, confusion, slurred speech and pre-conditions of the comma.

Foundation of National Urea Cycle put forwarded that this condition is equally likely for children as well as individuals.

Risks of High Protein Diet

Above story showed a relation in protein and urea cycle disorder that caused Meegan Hefford death.

During body metabolism process, some by-products, such as ammonia formed. Over consumption may lead to a deadly situation, as in the case of Hafford.

The situation varies, according to an individual’s bodily conditions. For instance, those with fluctuating liver conditions, chronic kidney disorders and phenyl-ketonuria should take care in protein intake.

Bodybuilders, breastfeeding women and pregnant women and patients recovering from surgery must monitor their intake.

It is worth to understand, what is the upper limit, a person should intake macronutrient? Fats, proteins and carbohydrate are called macros, and you must count your macros.

Take an easy approach, 1 kg = 2.2 pounds

Take your weight in kg and multiply to 0.8, for instance, a 200 pounds person must go for 75g protein/day

It is not okay that for a healthy person, this quantity should increase since it promotes weight loss, so it must not be confused with other macronutrients. High carb diet put pressure on filtration organ and capable of growing cancer chances.

Usually, it is healthy for health and people seeking fitness prefer it in macronutrients, as it builds muscles. Eating steaks or chugging shakes is not the only healthy way to eat it rather there are many other ways.

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Christie D'soza
Christie D'soza

Written by Christie D'soza

I'm a Nutritionist, blogger and author at healthsabz.com. I love writing on diet. Based on research evidences, my articles publish in different forums