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Too much protein is bad for your kidneys.
by WA 9mo ago
Too much protein is bad for your kidneys.
- delichon 9mo agoFor healthy people kidney damage starts at around 2.5 g/kg/day, which is about 5.5 pounds of steak before cooking for a 160 pound man.
- criddell 9mo agoHow are you calculating that? Google tells me that 2 lbs of steak contains between 225 and 270 grams of protein. That would be well over the threshold that the article I linked to a couple of posts up mentions: > Your kidneys process all the extra nitrogen from the protein, and when you’re eating 200 grams a day, sometimes they just can’t keep up and they get stressed.