Does a High-Protien Diet Cause Constipation?

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

With high protein diets getting a lot of attention these days, we’ve received a question from a listener (that we also get in the nutrition counseling room) about digestive changes: “I recently upped my protein intake, but now I’m dealing with constipation. Any suggestions to help?” This is common, but constipation doesn’t need to be your new normal! There are simple solutions to help you get back on track if you are noticing being more constipated since increasing your protein. In today’s episode, we’ll cover why you might want to increase your protein, signs and symptoms of constipation, and tips to ensure you’re having one bowel movement every day.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition.
0:11.3	Today's podcast is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.
0:15.1	I'm Kara Carper, licensed nutritionist and board certified nutrition specialist.
0:20.2	I'm pleased to be here today with Brandy
0:21.8	Burrow. Brandy is a licensed and registered dietitian. We are going to explore a great question today
0:29.0	that we received from more than one of you listeners. And by the way, please keep the questions and
0:34.1	topic ideas coming because we take them very seriously and we put together
0:39.2	today's show based on some of your suggestions. That's right. I love putting together an episode
0:45.0	based on what our listeners want to hear. So everyone, please, if you have a nutrition question or
0:50.6	a topic that you really want to take a deep dive into, please let us know. So thanks for
0:56.5	having me here today, Kara. Yeah, it's great to see you again. Yeah, I love this. And the question
1:01.8	that we are tackling today is pretty common, actually. So I'm sure a lot of you can relate to this
1:07.7	because high protein diets are getting a lot more attention lately.
1:12.2	You've probably heard some buzz about how important eating protein is.
1:17.5	And protein is especially important to prevent muscle loss that can naturally occur with aging.
1:24.7	Even in 30s and 40s, muscle just naturally tends to decline unless they're very
1:30.7	kind of thoughtful and deliberate about strength training and eating protein. The specific question
1:37.6	that we received from our listeners was, I recently upped my protein intake, but now I'm dealing with constipation.
1:46.7	Any suggestions to help?
1:49.1	Yes.
1:49.7	So again, really relatable.
1:51.8	This question comes up a lot when I'm working one-on-one with clients during their counseling
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