the global market for protein powder is
18.9 billion dollars per year with half
of those sales being from the us alone
america's got gains y'all not long ago
protein powder was mostly used by
athletes but now it seems like everyone
and their mom is absolutely hucking back
this stuff
and that's how you do it so today we are
going to explain exactly what happens to
your brain and body if you were to
replace every single one of your meals
with whey protein powder and how long
would it take to kill ya the first thing
you'd notice is the farts because of how
protein powder affects your gut when we
eat protein the molecules begin to be
digested in the stomach where the acid
unfolds the protein for the enzyme
pepsin to cut the protein up into
smaller pieces these pieces of protein
then enter the small intestine where
enzymes break them down even further
into amino acids which are absorbed into
your body and taken to the eye liver but
unlike carbohydrates and fats these
proteins in the small intestines have
slower gastric emptying time which means
it takes longer for them to go through
the digestive system has more time to
interact with the bacteria feeding off
of them which increases the amount of
hydrogen sulfide produced in your gut
it's the sulfide and the hydrogen
sulfides that make your fart smell
rotten hot
one study found that high protein diets
can cause up to seven times more
hydrogen sulfide release from your dang
butthole but protein doesn't just make
you smell like a human restroom it's
actually also very important to your
body there are 20 amino acids that make
up proteins in your body nine of which
are essential and you need to consume
them that is eat them in order to
survive so the protein powder will be
covering you for those and helping with
wound healing and some immune functions
and of course building the muscle but uh
within a few weeks you will start to see
some major issues with other parts of
your body as you will become deficient
in the nutrients that affect your bones
your liver your kidneys and your heart
ever heard of that kind of important if
you only consumed protein powder you
would not get enough calcium in your
diet so your body would begin to take
the calcium from your bones to
compensate for the lack of calcium you
are consuming from normal meals
eventually this would lead to the
diagnosis of osteoporosis which is
significantly lower bone density with an
increased risk of fractures that's not
good if you're trying to lift weights in
the gym low calcium would also affect
your skin with it becoming scaly your
nails would become more brittle and your
hair would become more coarse
essentially you'll end up looking like
carrot top with busted nails and
eventually the lack of calcium will
begin to affect your brain and cause
confusion memory loss and hallucinations
so at this point you look messed up and
maybe you're starting to talk to your
free weights as if they're your friends
but thankfully an 18-month study showed
individuals who consume 45 grams of whey
protein on top of their moderate protein
intake from a normal diet had no changes
to their bone density again this study
was for people who were taking whey
protein on top of their normal diet
they're forgetting the correct amount of
calcium from that if you were replacing
all of your meals with whey protein you
would look like a sick demon with maybe
a couple of nice packs replacing your
meals with jesuit protein powder would
start to affect one of my favorite
organs which is the adorable little
kidneys these little babies help filter
your blood when there is increased
protein in your blood it means your
blood is more concentrated and puts more
strain on your kidneys since fluid likes
moving to areas of high concentration
through osmosis jones high protein in
your diet can add fluid volume in your
blood vessels this causes the vessels to
dilate and increases your blood pressure
the vessels that filter blood in the
kidneys may eventually become damaged
due to the constant high pressure
leading to protein leaking into your
urine studies have found that high
protein diets cause an increased
filtration rate on the kidneys but we
don't exactly know the impact over long
periods of time these protein powders
and high protein diets are actually very
new and so there needs to be more
research on that in a study of
9226 south koreans the individuals with
the highest daily protein intake had a
3.5 fold higher filtration in their
kidneys so over time kidney failure
could be imminent protein shakes have
also been shown to be harmful to the
detoxifier of your body the liver in a
report reviewing the top 134 selling
protein powders 70 had traces of lead
1.5 times the accepted amount 74 had
cadmium 4.7 times the average amount and
55 had bpa any of these protein powders
could be affecting the liver and
especially if all you're eating is that
egg protein powder in one case a patient
had multiple whey protein and creatine
supplements for 60 to 90 days and they
presented to the hospital with yellowing
of their eyes and skin because the
protein powder induced liver toxicity
the only protein powder you could become
yellow a study from last year found that
yes due to the lack of regulation of
protein powders many of them have
arsenic lead mercury but these studies
did find that based on two protein
powder shakes per day you would not be
exceeding any limit to see physiological
damage but we are going to be needing
more than two protein powders a day to
replace all of our meals and at this
point you might see neurotoxicity from
lead poisoning lead poisoning happens
because lead physiologically competes
with calcium in the body calcium is
essential to proper neurological
functions in order for your neurons to
literally fire so your central nervous
system would be under attack from the
lead as well lead causes negative
effects on your ability to reproduce and
on your kidneys remember those poor
little babies now they're getting double
hit not to mention that you are no
longer chewing and new studies have
found that chewing the physiological
activity is very important for your body
to be signaled to be satiated slow
eating and chewing can control appetite
so since you're not doing that you're
going to be more hungry you're going to
need even more protein shakes and then
you're going to smell even more like a
disgusting bag of garbage in 1976 a book
called the last chance diet talked about
the liquid protein diet as a weight loss
solution and caused over 100 000 people
to go on this liquid protein diet for at
least a month this resulted in 60 deaths
with 17 of those deaths being in
completely healthy people most of the
healthy people died due to a decreased
blood flow throughout their body known
as a ventricular arrhythmia which was
due to abnormal heartbeats they think
this was actually because of the
dramatic weight loss that came from
switching to this liquid protein diet as
well as a magnesium deficiency that they
realized was happening in these people
who were only having these protein
shakes so this is an example of how
after one month of liquid protein diet
you could die so it's fair to say that
having protein shakes as your only meals
is not a good idea but i get it i guess
we're in the age of the jacked bro the
in the age of the juice head in the age
of the
and if you want to gain muscle they
recommend 1.2 to 1.7 grams of protein
per kilogram that you weigh that's a lot
of protein you probably are gonna smell
like farts on average you want about 0.8
grams of protein per kilogram of body
weight and again there's very easy ways
to cut this just by eating protein heavy
diets of course adding whey protein
shakes here and there isn't gonna kill
you just having them though that might
but with all aspects of nutrition and
nature and science it is better to be
getting your calories from whole foods
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