Nutritional Science

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Originally Posted by Lampolo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've been reading this thread but missed the part about your heart and liver. What's the worry?

Some people incorrectly thought that my liver was somehow at risk due to my lifestyle. The first suggestion was that I might give myself rhabdo. This is ridiculous, to do so would require me to train probably 5+ hours per day or basically to the point where my muscles were taking so much damage that they would no longer be solid tissue and instead be dissolving into my bloodstream. A common way of getting rhabdo not from exercise is an incredibly physically traumatic car accident

Elite CrossFit athletes have given themselves rhabdo, but they were not only on PED’s to allow such incredible amounts of strain, but also we’re training to compete as their only form of income. Thus, they would push far past when their brain and body were telling them to stop. I am not nearly as mentally hardcore as that, nor do I have this fear in the back of my mind that if I don’t push myself past my human limits, that I won’t be able to earn any money to survive on. So rhabdo is out of the question

Then they thought that eating large quantities of food/protein was going to cause damage to my liver. Eating insane amounts of protein can be hard on the kidneys, this is documented in the fitness community, but it takes RIDICULOUS amounts of protein like 500+ grams per day for months before someone’s kidneys could be damaged. I mentioned that we can test for liver damage by blood tests, to which they had really no retort other than implying that somehow I would do some form of damage which wouldn’t be detectable during a blood test, or that I would wait until my liver was destroyed (somehow, still not explained well) before getting said test

Basically it was a concern troll. Or that’s how it appeared to me, maybe it was genuine concern