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Today we're going to be talking about high protein diets and if they're actually dangerous or not.

There's been a few videos I've done in the past on like, you know, protein intake and diet stuff for optimal recovery.

And there's always the guys who pop in on there who are like, you don't need that much protein to recover

properly and blah blah, blah.

Look at the science.

And it's like, hey, first of all, the science isn't done on guys who have enhanced

physiques with super physiological abilities to synthesize protein and use it.

That's besides the point.

But anyways, another argument they have is

is high protein diet dangerous? They think that you're going to get kidney disease from it. It's just

like unhealthy to have anything more than a gram per pound of body weight. I'm not saying you need to

have more than a pound per gram because you know your individual goals you're you know what

you're using what you're not using that's all going to influence what kind of like macronutrient

split you should be doing as well as like the type of training you do if you train at all your

lifestyle you're sedentary if you work in construction if you do what whatever it's all going

to make a difference but as far as like

addressing the high protein being you know kidney damaging there's a study that came out it is a

what's it called a high protein diet has no harmful effects on one year crossover study and

resistance trained males so basically in this study they uh consumed 2.5 to 3.3 grams per

kilogram of body weight. If you, you know, break that down the numbers, that's up to 1.5 grams

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