Hey theme is Phillipa here from Fit Futures Academy and recently I was asked if  ‘eating too much protein can cause kidney damage?’.

In short ‘yes’, however this is probably unlikely to happen unless you’re eating ridiculous amounts of meat and protein powders. It’s more likely if you’ve already got some kidney damage or if you’re living with one kidney but for the normal person it takes roughly 1 kg of meat per day for an 80 kilo man to begin to experience these negative effects.

This basically happens because protein contains nitrogen which your body needs to get rid of and it does this by converting it to urea which is then excreted through the kidneys and urine to get rid