True, although what some bodybuilders do is probably as abusive as drugs.
The MSM broke a story on Sunday that has seriously elevated the level of stupidity, dishonesty, and hysteria in reporting — even more than it already has over the past few months of the attempted overthrow of the Trump administration.
It seems that an Australian fitness competitor died from complications occurring from an undiagnosed case of Urea Cycle Disorder, an extremely rare derangement of protein metabolism that results in toxic levels of ammonia in the blood. Being a rare genetic disorder, she had not been tested for it.
How do you think the vast majority of the world’s media created a clickbait story out of this tragic death? They lied about it.
You’ve read the headlines and listened to the newsreaders the past couple of days. With very few exceptions, the headlines and the first paragraphs said that Meegan Hefford, a “mum” of two, died from eating too much protein. In predictable lockstep, they dutifully recited the narrative: too much protein can kill you, she ate too much protein because she was a bodybuilder, and now she’s dead. Poor kids.
If her UCD was mentioned, it was way down at the bottom. But most people don’t read down that far, and most people are thus left with a reinforced impression that protein is a deadly poison. Even Rush Limbaugh — usually a thoughtful critic of such propaganda when it’s about politics — swallowed the bait.