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delichonlast Thursday at 8:19 AM1 replyview on HN

For healthy people kidney damage starts at around 2.5 g/kg/day, which is about 5.5 pounds of steak before cooking for a 160 pound man.


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criddelllast Thursday at 5:12 PM

How are you calculating that?

Google tells me that 2 lbs of steak contains between 225 and 270 grams of protein. That would be well over the threshold that the article I linked to a couple of posts up mentions:

> Your kidneys process all the extra nitrogen from the protein, and when you’re eating 200 grams a day, sometimes they just can’t keep up and they get stressed.