With the improvement of living standards, many people begin to pay attention to supplementary nutrition. For example, people who exercise regularly will eat protein powder to supplement protein and promote muscle growth. But everyone should know that fitness protein powder is not a necessity, and excessive intake may be harmful to the body. Next, talk about the taboos and side effects of fitness protein powder. What harm will it do if you eat too much fitness protein powder?

Protein powder taboo

1. Gout patient: At present, protein powder is mostly soybean protein and contains a lot of purine. The intake of gout patients will make the original disordered purine metabolism more serious, so gout patients can't eat protein powder.

2. Patients with liver disease: Patients with liver disease can't eat protein powder, because protein needs liver metabolism in human body, and patients with liver disease have poor liver function. Eating protein powder will undoubtedly increase the burden on the liver, thus aggravating the condition.

3, patients with kidney disease: patients with kidney disease should not eat protein powder. Protein powder also needs to be metabolized by the kidney after entering the human body. Therefore, eating protein powder in patients with kidney disease will also increase the burden on the kidneys and make the condition worse.

4. Infants and young children: The digestive system of infants and young children is not fully developed, and it is difficult for infants and young children to digest protein powder. Eating a large amount of protein powder can also cause diarrhea and vomiting in infants and young children, so infants and young children cannot eat protein powder.

Side effects of protein powder

Diarrhea: Eating protein powder may lead to diarrhea, which is a side effect of many nutritional supplements. If you have a bad stomach, you will have a greater chance of diarrhea after eating protein powder.

2, edema: after eating protein powder, there may be unexplained edema, so people with poor water and salt metabolism need to be careful to eat protein powder.

If you eat too much protein powder for a long time, it will not only cause side effects such as diarrhea and edema, but also cause abnormal liver and kidney function and even cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, everyone should eat protein powder properly to avoid unnecessary harm to the body.