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Eating too much protein can poison your body because your liver can't turn all the waste into safe stuff fast enough.

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Amino acids, ammonia, and hepatic encephalopathy.

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2022 Jul 15

When people with bad livers eat too much protein, their bodies make too much ammonia, which their livers can’t clean up — and that makes them sick. This study shows that’s true.

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