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Protein shakes and Greek yoghurt and BMs

Postby pat123 » 26 Jan 2012, 13:15

Couple of questions: Do protein shakes and/or Greek yoghurt cause stools to be hard and/or constipation?
I’m training/rehabilitating from a back and foot injury (as well as this AF thing) and I drink about 40-50 grams of protein per day in protein shakes spread throughout the day at various workout junctures. I’m also a fitness fanatic and have taken protein shakes 4 or 5 times a week in conjunction with workouts for years.
I also eat a few Greek yoghurts each day, and I can actually replace 40-50 grams of protein shakes with 3 or 4 Greek yoghurts.
So, any thoughts? TIA!! Image
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Re: Protein shakes and Greek yoghurt and BMs

Postby workingonit » 26 Jan 2012, 15:53

The way I understand it, digestion of dairy products vary from person to person. I think for some people they do constipate, and for others they don't.
I like to eat yogurt each day but more for the the helpful bacteria. Those I find do help BMs (and less gas from all the extra fibre!).
I don't know about protein shakes though. The way I understand it, protein is process more slowly by the body, so it can throw off your regularity. But I don't know if this applies to protein in a shake...
You might want to call the company that makes them.
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Re: Protein shakes and Greek yoghurt and BMs

Postby Jenbug » 27 Jan 2012, 13:35

There is a nice kefir probiotic smoothie drink that has protein in it. It tastes pretty awful..but it's nice to have for the cultures and probiotics
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Re: Protein shakes and Greek yoghurt and BMs

Postby grannymaria » 28 Jan 2012, 19:56

Someone at our office said that lactose in yogurt is minimal.. I thought that yogurt is a dairy product therefore has milk :( right?
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Re: Protein shakes and Greek yoghurt and BMs

Postby workingonit » 28 Jan 2012, 20:25

Yogurt is made of milk, but the beneficial bacteria in it has eaten most of the lactose. But there would still be some left.
My hubby is lactose intolerant and takes a multienzyme everyday to help with that and digesting other stuff too.
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Re: Protein shakes and Greek yoghurt and BMs

Postby pat123 » 29 Jan 2012, 12:40

Thanks ya'll! Going to a CRS on Thursday and will be asking lots of questions!
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Re: Protein shakes and Greek yoghurt and BMs

Postby rasmith3530 » 06 Feb 2012, 00:54

Regarding lactose intollerance, I have several friends who were again able to drink milk without issue by switching to raw milk. The difficult thing of course is finding it.
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Re: Protein shakes and Greek yoghurt and BMs

Postby sailorgal » 23 Feb 2012, 08:40

As for high protein diets, my understanding is that too much protein without a lot of water accompanied with it can cause constipation. I personally experienced this several years ago when on a high protein diet.
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Re: Protein shakes and Greek yoghurt and BMs

Postby feistypris » 10 May 2012, 03:22

I had fistulectomy 1 year ago. Until now, I'm still bleeding. Right now, I'm only having protein shakes as my meal.
Do you think it's right?
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Re: Protein shakes and Greek yoghurt and BMs

Postby turnontheignition » 10 May 2012, 12:10

Good topic fellow fitness fanatic. I would like to "whey" in. lol
I've been on a high protein diet for the last 16 months and thought it may have contributed to the fissure. Now I found out i was 1/2 right. It was 1 month before my fissure when I bought some cheap whey protein blend that had creatine. I was already supplementing with creatine, and there was creatine in my preworkout, so the additional creatine in the protein was just too much for me. I got dehydrated which led to the fissure.
I've since put the creatine on hold.
When my fissure was at it's worst, I cut out all protein shakes for a week. Then started back using Egg White protein shakes for 12 days, and now back using whey without creatine.
I think you'll be fine if you avoid the low quality protein shakes, and while healing, avoid creatine.
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