Does Yogurt cancel out Whey protein

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  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    a trainer i had a while back said that you dont benefit as much from the protein when you eat it in a sugary substance such as milk. I am not sure why this is, but I have heard that you shouldn't mix protein with milk, you should use water instead so this may have something to do with it. I dont follow this since i dont like protein mixed with just water, but its just something ive heard. Also, i dont think that its "bad" to do. i think there is some reason why some of the protein powder is not absorbed correctly when sugar is involved.
    It's my understanding that the insulin spike created by a sugary substance is beneficial in the uptake of nutrients, including protein, rather than detrimental.

    Someone correct me if I've got that completely mixed up.

    There's some relatively recent research showing that if the protein dose is significant enough, further addition of carbohydrate does not further enhance protein synthesis. This pretty much states that insulin is elevated substantially enough from Whey alone.
    Well, good thing that **** tastes good with milk then.
  • iceqieen
    iceqieen Posts: 862 Member
    Why wouldn't you just eat real food?

    I would be late for work if I cooked steak for my brekfast


    :huh:

    then have skyr instead! NOMNOM lots of protein :)
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    FYI it was like 3 years ago that I worked at booster juice so maybe that was just a myth at the time that has since been disproved since I worked there.

    I am *really* curious as to how such a myth got started. You are correct that it makes absolutely no sense.
  • reptilegrrl
    reptilegrrl Posts: 24 Member
    It's my understanding that the insulin spike created by a sugary substance is beneficial in the uptake of nutrients, including protein, rather than detrimental.

    Someone correct me if I've got that completely mixed up.

    Yeah, you have it mixed up. :)

    What you are thinking of, I think, is that when you eat protein with a sugary or starchy substance, the protein slows digestion and therefore stops you from having an insulin spike. Insulin spikes are not what you want, they make you store your calories as fat without getting to use them for energy!

    So eating protein with sugar does not make the protein less beneficial, but it mitigates the negative effects of the sugar. Sugar alone --> insulin spike. Sugar with protein --> slow steady absorption.

    To the OP, your trainer was wrong. I mean, whey protein is a large constituent of yogurt!

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