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Today, Explained

Whey too much protein

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Added protein really seems to be in all the food lately. Reporter Chris Gayomali says to thank environmental regulations, GLP-1s, and Arnold Schwarzenegger for our modern protein boom. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Matthew Billy, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Protein bars on display at a CVS pharmacy in Queens, New York. Photo by Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We are going to extreme lengths to get more protein these days.

0:05.0

The powders, the shakes, the cottage cheese and the oatmeal, the peanut butter and everything, and the chicken smoothie.

0:12.0

I went to the store, got like some chicken breast, boiled it, blended it in a blender.

0:20.0

It was like, added a splash of water, and then it smelled like, you know, I was just like, dude,

0:26.3

I'm making soup here.

0:27.3

This is so weird.

0:28.2

So then I added like every berry, every frozen banana, like everything I could basically

0:32.5

find in my freezer and, you know, to make it a little bit more tolerable.

0:36.5

Have you tried the chicken smoothie?

0:39.4

And then my wife tried it, too, and she was like, oh, yeah, you could definitely feel the chicken on that.

0:44.5

And so I had this, like, you know, venty-sized chicken smoothie that I had to drink all myself

0:48.9

because I can't waste anything in my house.

0:53.0

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