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The Very Real Risks of Consuming Too Much PROTEIN With the popularity of "high-protein" diets, you might be tempted to believe you simply can't overeat protein. But the truth is that consuming excessive protein can actually be quite detrimental to your health. Ea ng more protein than your body needs can interfere with your health and fitness goals in a number of ways, including weight gain, extra body fat, stress on your kidneys, dehydra on, and leaching of important bone minerals. Granted, your body needs protein. Protein and its array of amino acids are the primary building blocks for your muscles, bones, and many hormones. You cannot live without it. As you age, and during pregnancy, consuming sufficient amounts of high-quality protein is especially important, as your ability to process protein declines with age, raising your protein requirements. This is especially true for aging males. Protein helps preserve lean muscle that is typically lost with age. High quality proteins from pasture- raised animals are more easily used by your body than those from plants. That said, there is an upper limit to how much protein your body can actually use. On average, Americans consume anywhere from three to five mes more protein than they need for op mal health, along with far too many carbohydrates and not enough healthy fats. Meat consump on has risen drama cally in the US over the past century. Making ma ers worse, a large amount of this excess meat is typically poor quality, origina ng in confined animal feeding opera ons (CAFOs), where the animals are mistreated and fed an unnatural diet of gene cally engineered grains instead of fresh grass. Your goal should be a diet with enough—but not too much—high-quality protein from a variety of plant and animal sources. Excess Protein May Fuel Weight Gain, Yeast Overgrowth, and Cancer There are a number of reasons why I believe it's prudent to limit your protein intake. The first is that if you eat more protein than your body requires, it will simply convert most of those calories to sugar and then fat. Increased blood sugar levels can also feed pathogenic bacteria and yeast, such as Candida albicans (candidiasis), as well as fueling cancer cell growth. The Very Real Risks of Consuming Too Much PROTEIN Abby's Magazine - Volume 5 Issue 1| Page 61