Questions about Protein

ErikWennerberg
ErikWennerberg Posts: 24 Member
edited November 10 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey guys.
I searched around and well I can as usual not find the answer. I might actually be the worst searcher online to this date.

Anyways Im just wondering.
  • Can I eat to much Protein?
  • Do I gain at all from Protein?
  • Is there diffrent kinds of protein?
  • I use 100% Whey Protein Powder. Is this the right one if I am trying to avoid loss of muscles?

Yet again I thank everyone in advance.

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  • Th3Ph03n1x
    Th3Ph03n1x Posts: 275 Member
    I can't answer all of those but...

    You can gain from going over your net calories. It can be protein that puts you over or fat or carbs.

    There is plan based protein and animal based protein. If there are other type I'm n ot ware of it.

    Many body builders use whey protein so I'd say you're fine on that score.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    edited January 2015
    ErikWennerberg wrote: »
    Hey guys.
    I searched around and well I can as usual not find the answer. I might actually be the worst searcher online to this date.

    Anyways Im just wondering.
    • Can I eat to much Protein?
    • Do I gain at all from Protein?
    • Is there diffrent kinds of protein?
    • I use 100% Whey Protein Powder. Is this the right one if I am trying to avoid loss of muscles?

    Yet again I thank everyone in advance.

    1)Yes too much protein can turn to fat like any other surplus of macro.

    2)Gain what? weight yes that can happen refer to answer one.

    3)There is whey isolate, whey protein, casein protein. The person above has the two types of protein in actually food.

    4) What do you not get protein from actually food?
  • vismal
    vismal Posts: 2,463 Member
    ErikWennerberg wrote: »
    Hey guys.
    I searched around and well I can as usual not find the answer. I might actually be the worst searcher online to this date.

    Anyways Im just wondering.
    • Can I eat to much Protein?
    • Do I gain at all from Protein?
    • Is there diffrent kinds of protein?
    • I use 100% Whey Protein Powder. Is this the right one if I am trying to avoid loss of muscles?

    Yet again I thank everyone in advance.
    1 & 2. You can eat too much of anything. Protein is rarely, and I mean RARELY stored as fat. The pathways to convert protein to fat in the body simply don't exist for it to happen in any meaningful fashion. You can use amino acids for energy, or see them converted to carbs by the body. For this reason, if you over consume protein enough to push calories above maintenance, the net result will be fat gain. It's just that the protein itself isn't getting converted to fat.

    3. There are many different sources of protein with varying amino acid profiles. Protein from meats, eggs, dairy, whey and casein are all complete protein sources. Certain plant protein sources are not complete but that doesn't mean they aren't any good. I prefer to eat a variety of different protein sources so I don't really worry about the amino acid profiles.

    4. There is no right protein powder to avoid muscle loss. Think of protein powder as just another food source high in protein. If it helps you hit your protein goal for the day, then its fine. If you can hit your goal without taking the powder, that's fine too. There isn't anything special or inherently muscle sparing about protein powder, again, it's just another protein source.
  • HardworkEqualResults3
    HardworkEqualResults3 Posts: 3
    Too much of anything is bad, there are several online calculators for protein intake that go by body weight.

    To preserve as much lean muscle mass as possible you might want to consider adding casin for night time muscle feeding
  • ErikWennerberg
    ErikWennerberg Posts: 24 Member
    yopeeps025 wrote: »
    ErikWennerberg wrote: »
    Hey guys.
    I searched around and well I can as usual not find the answer. I might actually be the worst searcher online to this date.

    Anyways Im just wondering.
    • Can I eat to much Protein?
    • Do I gain at all from Protein?
    • Is there diffrent kinds of protein?
    • I use 100% Whey Protein Powder. Is this the right one if I am trying to avoid loss of muscles?

    Yet again I thank everyone in advance.

    1)Yes too much protein can turn to fat like any other surplus of macro.

    2)Gain what? weight yes that can happen refer to answer one.

    3)There is whey isolate, whey protein, casein protein. The person above has the two types of protein in actually food.

    4) What do you not get protein from actually food?

    I dont have time to actually sit down and have a great meal att all times and I need to eat sporadically. Therefor I might not be carrying a egg in my pocket or a steak in my jacket. So I thought proteinshakes are easy to just chug in the fast lane.

    And yeah the reason I want to spare the muscles is because I have non and if I loose what I have I will not be able to move lol.

    Reason I wondered if I could eat to much or gain from protein is that the one I got is barely moving any of the stats in MFP. And I kinda like the taste of it. Its like liquid Icecream :) Woohoo.

    Thanks everyone and I learned alot.
  • Showcase_Brodown
    Showcase_Brodown Posts: 919 Member
    ErikWennerberg wrote: »
    Hey guys.
    I searched around and well I can as usual not find the answer. I might actually be the worst searcher online to this date.

    Anyways Im just wondering.
    • Can I eat to much Protein?
    • Do I gain at all from Protein?
    • Is there diffrent kinds of protein?
    • I use 100% Whey Protein Powder. Is this the right one if I am trying to avoid loss of muscles?

    Yet again I thank everyone in advance.

    1. I'm not sure what the tolerable upper limit would be, but I'm guessing it would be difficult to achieve. If you have an existing kidney issue, there might be such a thing as too much, as in harmful. I will say that if you get 1 g per lb of lean body mass, you have enough. Any more than that probably won't give any added benefit.

    2. Depends what you mean by gain. It is important for gaining/retaining muscle, but the other part of it is that the muscles need to be trained. Gain weight? Well, any excess calories overall will do that. And then there's always weight gain from water accompanying consumption of salt, carbs, etc.

    3. Yes, there are many different types. You could break it up into foods that have complete protein (contain all the essential amino acids), and ones that don't. Usually you'll want to go for food with complete protein, or you can combine incomplete protein foods in pairs or teams to cover the different amino acids.

    4. For avoiding muscle loss, the first thing is that you need to be training them. Second is you need enough (complete, preferably) protein. You don't specifically need whey protein so long as you are getting enough protein. Whey is only one possible source, it's just convenient for a lot of people to use.

    Hope that helps.
  • Showcase_Brodown
    Showcase_Brodown Posts: 919 Member
    ErikWennerberg wrote: »
    I dont have time to actually sit down and have a great meal att all times and I need to eat sporadically. Therefor I might not be carrying a egg in my pocket or a steak in my jacket. So I thought proteinshakes are easy to just chug in the fast lane.

    Dude, if you are packing steak n eggs, you might be my new best friend. If not, then yes, shakes might be convenient for you.
  • ErikWennerberg
    ErikWennerberg Posts: 24 Member
    You see my profile picture right? So you can obviously see that I dont need to train. Im built like ET how can you not want that. Nah Im not trying to gain in muscles, Im trying to avoid loosing the ONE I have. ;) And yes I am going for convinient.

    But then I know and I will be using it as a counter in the fruit/berrie morning shakes :)

    As always I thank you all for the great info. They need a like or thank button on here.
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