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Proteinaholic How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do about It
The majority of the western world actually eats too much protein, especially if they consume animal protein, which is the worst kind of protein you can get because it comes with a package full of bad things for your body.
I highly recommend MD Garth Davis's book Protein-aholic, here's a link to it.
You're clearly speaking as someone with specific fitness goals, not someone who is just looking to lose weight. Maybe we have completely different experiences with typical MFP users, but most people I know are just average people trying to drop weight.
And 112g of protein for me...that's just ridiculous. How on earth did people get so protein obsessed. Sure maybe people will put on muscle faster, but at what expense to their health. You should check out Proteinaholic.
Edit: Interestingly, the meta-analysis referenced by the link you provided was funded by the US National Dairy Council, who would clearly have a heavy interest in encouraging protein supplementation (since whey is the most common form of protein for protein supplements). Obviously doesn't prove anything, but the funding bias is real and it's hard to find studies that push for high protein intake that aren't funded by meat, egg, or dairy (i.e. "protein") industries.
160g is far more than you need, your gym buddies might think otherwise but they are not using good science or data to back their beliefs and are in fact trashing their kidneys. i can give you some info on the science if you'd like, this is a good approachable mini-book on some of the information that cites all of its sources, and there's a book called Proteinaholic which has some great info about it too, more in-depth
>For instance even vegan Pat Baboumian consumes an excessive 400grams per day.
Yeah, 1,600 calories a day from protein. It sounds like he's gonna die early but that's typical for Gym rats. And it's completely f-in stupid. Human muscle is 76% water and 4% other, and only around 20% protein. That means 400 grams is enough to build 2kg a day.
But let's say due to daily protein losses, turnover, and basic inefficiencies, that only 1 in every 4 grams of protein gets used in muscle. That's still 0.5 kg of muscle a day. 365 lbs in a year. The most a person gains in a year is during the so-called beginner gains period, typically months 6-18 for serious beginners, and that's 20lbs natural. Past basic daily needs (RDA), at his weight calculated at 93 grams, the excess (307) is about 15x too much protein for simply building new muscle with a very generous quadruple growth margin. He could very easily just do 100-110 gram daily and do just as well if not better with recovery. And that would mean stopping the powder as he certainly goes over that with the food.
And this, along with drugs, is why gym bros die early. They can't basic math. A lot of protein that stresses the kidneys and gets peed out. As a bodybuilder, you want excess calories, and the protein will take care of itself if you're not on soda and oreos.