How much protein is too much?

[massatronic]

You can die if you drink enough water, bloats the kidney or something. A bathful though, nothing to get paranoid about.

 

[mphowells]

You can die if you drink enough water, bloats the kidney or something. A bathful though, nothing to get paranoid about.

i remeber being told that a few years ago when I was in uni. I figured the bloke telling me had a screw loose. Guess i was the one in the wrong!

 

[SgtSlaughter]

You can die if you drink enough water, bloats the kidney or something. A bathful though, nothing to get paranoid about.

It's not so much the quantity throught the day as much as the time period in which the water is consumed. It's not pleasant when experienced.

Hyponatremia

 

[tiggerizme]

A bathtub full of water? Damn if you didn't die you would probably shit water for a few weeks and want to die.

LOL.

 

[Goldprospector]

Just be sure to eat plenty of fiber with the protien...if you cant eat enough then at least supplement it.

 

[Recruit]

cutting or bulking? thats the real question.

 

[mojaz87]

Taking all that protein is really just a waste of time, effort, and also money. Depending on the intensity of your workouts and how much torn muscle must be repaired, your body will use the protein it needs and the rest will be excreted/stored as fat. There is no place in the body to store excess protein.

Also, if you're not drinking enough water, and with that much protein you want to be drinking a LOT of water, you will just end up with a dysfunctional kidney. While you are young, you won't notice the effects, but as you grow older and the rate/efficiency at which your organs work decreases, kidney problems may arise. To begin with, you don't need anything more than 1g/lb./day. Maybe 1.5g at the most. 3g will do nothing extra for you. There is also a study that makes a correlation between increased protein consumption and urinary calcium excretion. This loss of calcium through urine could potentially cause problems later on (i.e. osteoporosis/degeneration). Lastly, in order to digest protein, your body requires the vitamin B6. Therefore, high levels of protein in the body will require more of this vitamin for effective digestion.

IMHO, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Where you're at right now seems fine, so as long as you're making gains and seeing progress, no need to change the diet.

 

[cyrex]

Protein is so yummy. LOL. Drink and eat it all. I don't think it is an overkill. It's like drinking too much water.... Uh I don't think you can over kill that.

you can drink too much water
it can cause hydrotoxicity.

too much fluid in your body and you can die from it. just like you can die form dehydration...

 

[letsrun4it]

you can drink too much water
it can cause hydrotoxicity.

too much fluid in your body and you can die from it. just like you can die form dehydration...

someone in my middle school nearly died from it, on a dare to drink 2 gallons of water during lunch.

 

[whitemahon]

There is no place in the body to store excess protein.

yes there is. and its spelled. . . FAT CELLS. . .

the body will not "excrete" excess protien. it will metabolize it. either burn it as an energy source, or store it in fat cells. you don't just shit out the calories.