How much protein IS "too much"

Also found this which lists WEIGHT GAIN, Reduced Liver and Brain Function, and High cholesterol:

"Your body can only use a certain amount of protein each day. If you take in too much protein, you may gain weight. Each gram of protein has 4 calories. If you take in 100 grams of protein, but your body can only use 50 grams of it, your body will store the extra 200 calories' worth of protein as fat. Doing this daily can cause you to take in 1,400 extra calories per week, resulting in a weight gain of almost 2 pounds per month." (http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/three-problems-associated-much-protein-intake-6546.html)

Only if that protein puts you above maintenance. Protein is actually the hardest macro for your body to store as fat. With fats, they can be stored as adipose tissue pretty easily, carbs are converted vis lipogenesis, protein is first broken into glucose via de novo gluconeogenesis and then converted via lipogenesis.

I wonder what our ancestors did with all that extra meat after hunting a mammoth when they realised that your body cant eat that much protein?

After passing it around to all the folks who directly helped with the hunt, their families, and everyone else in the band... what extra meat are we talking about again? Not to mention, this was ice age megafauna which implies fat galore.

The least I eat is about 150 grams of protein and the most I eat is about 250 grams...
Im doing this along with eating little carbs because my goal is to lower my bodyfat further and because my weight training is intense
This method is working for me and im seeing more muscle definition little by little:)

So in other words, it all depends what are your goals and how are your workouts as well, this is my opinion

The Body can ONLY absorb 26 grams or less of "protein" per day. Everything else is waste! I put protein in quotations because there is No such thing as protein; there are aminos and someone came up with which ones THEY believe are essential. Protein is a Myth, and the need for it in great numbers are an even Bigger myth, this is one reason for so many diseases, EXCESS "protein" actually it is Excess food products that carry these aminos that the Body can not digest to get to the aminos...such as meats and dairy. Those excess food products can not be broken down by the Body so they just sit and cause damage. Ever heard that beef can stay in the intestines for yrs...TRUE. And guess what, it is just rotting there, a cancer waiting to happen.

So much bullshhh. As a matter of fact, I would suggest you deactivate your account and never post on any ADULT/Fitness based site ever again. Anything sitting in a tract for years is due to other factors such as inadequate hydration and inadequate fiber intake. You're vilifying amino acids?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I'm copy and pasting this crap to do a video about later. Thanks. And oh yea, ever heard of Nitrogen?

Anyways....

"high" protein intake isn't harmful to a healthy kidney or liver, given a decent hydration and electrolyte balance. Everyone wants to pick one of the three macronutrients and demonize it! There's only 3 people! Get a clue! What else is there left to eat?

And funny how civilization made it this far without cloggin up our tracts and having kidney failure throughout our pass and snuffing us out of existence. It's all the other crap we eat nowadays and the harmful ways we raise and treat our sentient sources (meat) that leads to problems. Feeding a cow corn all day and pumping it full of steroids might have some issues for you if you consume alot of that. There's no question about that.


A simple answer to this question is an analogy i like to use: If you were in the wilderness...if all hell broke loose, again, or for whatever reason you were living on your own having to hunt and gather for food....think about it...you already know the answer.

Conspiracy theories are starting to look more plausible! "make them believe they should eat low fat and low protein so they'll be more docile, have lower testosterone and less aggressive" As the saying goes, Try to rule the world on berries and twigs if you want to. I'm not an aggressive type, but I'd much rather defend my family against someone afraid of protein!

Less we forget, your cells are always replicating. What is your DNA made up of?
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Unless you're trying to be a professional body builder there's no reason to even worry about this question. Research says you would want to slowly ramp up your intake if you're going to get to a new set point. I'm sure 50 grams is doable for about anyone in a sitting.

There probably shouldn't be a person on this whole forum eating under 150 grams of protein a day. Do that, THEN distribute the rest of your carbs and fats accordingly with good hydration and good fiber, and unfortunately for mfp, you probably wouldn't need to come here too often.

And yea...to whoever had the gall to post wikipedia as a source...you made my night!

Laugh...out....loud!!!!!

You'd been better off quoting the USDA or the FDA...

On that note, I'm gonna eat some more kettle chips, take a shot of tequila, and go to bed.

and I'm just here to continually perv at your picture. sorry about that! yum.

The Body can ONLY absorb 26 grams or less of "protein" per day. Everything else is waste! I put protein in quotations because there is No such thing as protein; there are aminos and someone came up with which ones THEY believe are essential. Protein is a Myth, and the need for it in great numbers are an even Bigger myth, this is one reason for so many diseases, EXCESS "protein" actually it is Excess food products that carry these aminos that the Body can not digest to get to the aminos...such as meats and dairy. Those excess food products can not be broken down by the Body so they just sit and cause damage. Ever heard that beef can stay in the intestines for yrs...TRUE. And guess what, it is just rotting there, a cancer waiting to happen.

This is old, flawed information. There was a recent study on elderly women who were fed 50-80 grams of protein per meal and up to 175 grams per day. They were able to absorb it just fine with no negative side effects. The study was on the effect of a high protein diet on bone density. Although high protein did not effect the density of bone, the study did disprove the previous assumption that humans are only able to absorb a small amount of protein per meal or per day.

I wonder what our ancestors did with all that extra meat after hunting a mammoth when they realised that your body cant eat that much protein?

After passing it around to all the folks who directly helped with the hunt, their families, and everyone else in the band... what extra meat are we talking about again? Not to mention, this was ice age megafauna which implies fat galore.

Exactly -- mammoth hunting was probably as much about fat as it was about protein. Wild game hunters have always target fat animals over lean, muscular animals. I'd have to re-locate it, but I remember an interesting anthro article about how buffalo hunting tribes on the plains would target pregnant females in the spring in order to eat the fetuses, and they'd leave the lean meat There can come a point where the game is so lean from winter starvation that hunters reject it for sources of fat instead.

Protein on its own, you can starve on (see the "rabbit starvation" link above. But most protein comes handily packaged with eitheir fat or carbs. The problem is when people decide both carbs and fat are bad and try to live without either).

The Body can ONLY absorb 26 grams or less of "protein" per day. Everything else is waste! I put protein in quotations because there is No such thing as protein; there are aminos and someone came up with which ones THEY believe are essential. Protein is a Myth, and the need for it in great numbers are an even Bigger myth, this is one reason for so many diseases, EXCESS "protein" actually it is Excess food products that carry these aminos that the Body can not digest to get to the aminos...such as meats and dairy. Those excess food products can not be broken down by the Body so they just sit and cause damage. Ever heard that beef can stay in the intestines for yrs...TRUE. And guess what, it is just rotting there, a cancer waiting to happen.

Are you sure its not 28g? Please keep your none sense to yourself. You are welcome to live your vegan lifestyle, but please get some of the facts correct.