The Risks of Overeating Protein
Side effects from excess protein are rare in healthy people. Unless you have a liver or kidney problem, you’d have to eat a lot of protein for a long time to cause any severe damage. It would take months of extra consumption for symptoms to appear.
The most significant risk of overeating protein is eating too much of the bad stuff that comes with protein foods. Sodium, nitrites, hormones, and preservatives are standard in processed meats. Canned tuna can mean a lot of mercury and chemicals, which were banned in the ’70s but still appear in seafood.
Eating a big part of your calories from animal protein could mean that you’re under-eating plant calories, and that means trouble for your long-term health.
2 thoughts on “Too Much Protein In Your Diet? Here Are 11 Signs”
I was totally lost. I have most of the symptoms you mention. Constipation being the worst. I thought I was supposed to eat a lot of protein for energy which I still do not have. I also think it was caused by a medicine I take for my diabetes. I was losing weight which I was doing good but have stopped losing and feel bloated.
Great article on high-protein diets. I am so trying to lose 50 pounds (at the age of 75) and I have been leaning toward fewer carbs and replacing them with protein. Good advice. Thank you.