What happens if you drink protein every day instead of eating, what happens to the human body from protein

Is it possible to use protein instead of food for a week? How can it affect my health? What are the dangers of such an experiment?

Let’s find out together with a nutritionist and trainer.

Blogger Mikhail Polyakov often experiments. This time he decided to check on himself how the body will react if you drink gainer (food additive) instead of food for seven days.

Gainer is not pure protein, but a protein-carbohydrate mixture created for effective and fast muscle mass gain. Its main purpose is to bridge the calorie deficit in the diet that occurs due to increased physical activity.

Nutriciologist

The carbohydrates in the gainer are dextrose (grape sugar), starch, rice syrup and carbohydrates produced from corn.

Thus, for the first day in general, the blogger “ate” 250 g of gainer and 600 g of milk. Of the side effects at the end of the day, he noted an unpleasant pain in the stomach.

Mikhail: It feels like drinking water, in which they threw a small piece of chocolate and poured sand. Not so much.

On the second day, the blogger drank a gainer at 11:00, then at 17:00 and at night. But since he ran out of milk, he had to mix the supplement with plain water. According to the blogger, it didn’t taste good.

fitness trainer, nutritionist.

Problems with the gastrointestinal tract are possible, since the manufacturer hardly took care of adding dietary fiber.

The fifth day of the experiment went similarly to the others. But on the sixth day the milk ran out, and Mikhail had to mix the gainer with water again. But he decided to experiment here too: he added the powder to cold tea. The blogger noted that it turned out something sour, but tasty. He advised those who “drink” gainer to try this recipe.

On the seventh day, Mikhail also drank a gainer, but this time – with milk. And in the evening he summarized the results of his test. During the week he made 20 intakes of gainer instead of food. It took him 6 liters of milk and 1 kg of the supplement.

Mikhail: In the middle of the experimentmy stomach began to periodically unpleasantly ache, a large amount of gas was formed. Pimples appeared on my face. But it is interesting that appetite was small throughout the week. I think that in general I did not harm myself and my body.

Quite an expected reaction of the body to this kind of experiment. Nutriciologist notes that one of the main reactions is constipation due to the large amount of protein and carbohydrates and lack of fiber and vitamins. And dietary fiber is necessary for normal intestinal function.

Lydia: Constipation, which is the consequence of such an experiment, disrupts the process of ridding the body of decay products and toxins. This leads to intoxication and deficiency of vitamins, minerals, amino acids.

Also during the experiment, the blogger talked about the fact that he had already “learned” to chew food. By the end, Mikhail repeatedly noted that he was very much tired of such a food routine and he is looking forward to eating normal food. The fitness trainer believes that this is to be expected. He notes that since the food is liquid, it will be digested quickly. In addition, the process of chewing food and its usual digestion is eliminated.

Andrei: It will all be subconsciously unnerving.