Can I get too much protein at one meal?

"With respect to hypertrophy, total protein intake
was the strongest predictor of ES magnitude. These results refute the commonly held belief
that the timing of protein intake in and around a training session is critical to muscular
adaptations and indicate that consuming adequate protein in combination with resistance
exercise is the key factor for maximizing muscle protein accretion."

Very good information, Rosie7891.

Layne Norton - PhD in protein metabolism.

Coles notes - The body can absorb almost any amount of protein.....however maxing out the anabolic response is around 30-40 grams.


BioLayne Video Log 4 - Myths About Protein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjmV8BlsJTQ

Please. I eat 140 g in one meal every day. If I could only process 30 or 40 g at a time, I'd be losing muscle mass like crazy. Somehow, I managed to squat 230 lbs last night.

obviously you are a very special snowflake then...

If you have kidney damage, too much protein can be bad.

If you are healthy...no problem.

I don't know. What I've read says it can lead to kidney damage if you consume too much over a long period of time.

but, how much is too much?

I don't know. Nor is there a clear answer. I try to stick with somewhere around 1g for every 1lb of lean body mass, although, I think research suggests it's really .7 for every 1lb of LBM. If I go over, so what. But, I try not to make a habit of massive amounts. I've just learned that everything is ok in moderation. Excess in anything, is just excess and unnecessary.

Hey you all!
I just wanted to let you know... I am a medschool student and so happened to know little about the metabolism itself.... so I thought maybe you´ll be interested.
There is no wasted protein, and neither sacharides or lipids (fats) that you would eat and it would be "waisted" in your body. Everything you eat is broken down into small molecules, absorbed in your intestines, then transferred in blood to particular organs (usually first passing through liver).
So sacharides usually go into your blood (your glucose level) and that stimulates hormone insuline releasement. Insuline stimulates absorbtion of glucose by cells- every cell "eats" glucose/sugar and if you ate too much sugar the cells will start to store it as a fat, since they don´t need that much sugar. Therefore, avoiding sugar attacks will prevent you from fat building.
As for proteins. They are also broken down to aminoacids, these are absorbed and these aminoacids can be used for muscle building. So during your workout some of your muscles fibers are broken down and body/ muscle reaction to workout is to rebuild it and rebuild it little bigger so it would be ready for this "workout load" when it happens again. Because of that you have to have some protein/ aminoacids in a blood after workout- so you give your body building material for more muscle. If you don´t have any other protein available, your body simply have nothing to build from, thus you worked out, but are not gaining any muscle.
BUT if you have access protein in your body, it is used for energy, not muscle building. Proteins are though much harder for body to transfer into energy (compared to sacharides and fatts) and have side products- nitrogen compunds which are released when running on "protein energy". Your body have only limited ability to eliminate this through your urine and after that its harming your body- particularly liver and kidneys. So longterm protein abundance can lead even to kidney demage/failure, possibly later to liver demage. It is also believed that this nitrate compounts have oncogenic efect etc. it is harming your body in general!
I love proteins, and tend to eat a lot of them. But always try to balance it. If you eat few days more protein, give your body a day off etc. If you workout more, you need more protein, if not, you need just avarage protein amount per day- 0,7-1g/kg of body weight.
Since I mentioned other two... Fatts are devided into "bad" (saturated) and "good" (unsaturated). The bad ones are building your fatt and rising cholesterol levels. The good ones are very much needed for your body- each cell contains a membrane from "fatts", your brain and nerves need this "fatts", few hormones are "made from fatts" .... and of course fatts are a good source of energy. So fatts are good thing, very much needed in your body. However, just the propriate amounts and the right kind of them- avocado, nuts, oils....
As much as waisted nutrients- there is not such thing really- you absorbed most of what you eat and at the end- in your stool are pretty much undigestible foods such as fibers, then water and waists from your body.
I hope I helped. It is very basicly explained and I tried to explained it more metaphoricly then with any medical terms... but pretty much thats how it works....

Might want to take a few more nutrition courses. There are no reputable studies showing high protein I take harms the liver or kidneys. It can have negative effects on someone who has kidney problems, but healthy kidneys have no issue at all processing several hundred grams of protein per day. And sugar doesn't get turned into fat unless you overrated total calories. The body doesn't store fat in caloric deficit, that's pretty much the opposite of what happens.