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High-protein diets are not appropriate for patients with kidney disease.
Eating a large amount of cooked meat in one sitting can cause constipation. It is better to consume smaller amounts 3 to 5 times a day. If necessary, you can add dietary fiber supplements (for example, wheat extract, psyllium husks, or micro-crystal cellulose) to high-protein meals.
Patients who had a stroke recently should not use high-protein diets.
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Ways of reducing the adverse effects of the proposed high-protein diet
     
    The most effective approach is addition of low-fat milk or related dairy products to the protein supplement (in a separate meal). (Readers can skip the detailed discussion of this topic and jump to the key points: press the skip button or this link .) For example, if you feel bad on the balanced high-protein diet, you can replace one of the high-protein meals with several glasses of low-fat milk (pasteurized). If this is not effective, you can alternate meals that contain the protein supplement with:
     
meals that consist of low-fat milk or
meals that consist of unsalted unprocessed cheese mixed with low-fat cultured milk.
     
    If you are lactose-intolerant, you may consider using special lactose-free dairy products. If you are allergic to cow milk, you may consider using goat milk instead. If I feel apathetic, fatigued or depressed after an extended period on the balanced high-protein diet, addition of dairy makes me feel better right away and reverses most of the above symptoms. If you are drinking six glasses of milk per day or more, you need to avoid milk that contains dietary supplements such as vitamins A, C, D or calcium. You risk overdosing on those supplements with such large amounts of milk.
    You can also add half a glass or more of the wheat extract ( Appendix I ) to each meal and this can also help to reduce fatigue and sadness. Besides, the wheat extract will make the balanced high-protein diet more balanced (pardon the pun) because this diet excludes all grains.
    This brings us to the modified high-protein diet . This diet is the same as the balanced high-protein diet, but it includes low-fat milk or related dairy products and wheat extract. The modified protein supplement is the same as the protein supplement that we saw in a previous section, except that you replace some high-protein meals with low-fat milk or related dairy products. This supplement can include half a glass of wheat extract per meal as well. The modified high-protein diet has little or no effect on mood, whereas the balanced high-protein diet (similar to the Paleolithic diet) gradually lowers mood and increases apathy. There is a small probability that the modified high-protein diet will cause symptoms of hypomania. In this case, you need to exclude dairy and wheat extract from the diet, for several days. Next time you transition to the modified high-protein diet, you can reduce the amount of dairy two-fold and see how it works for you.
    To sum up, low-fat dairy products and water extract of grains are two additional sources of protein, which have fewer negative effects than meat, fish, and nuts. I devised a diet, which I named the “antidepressant diet” for lack of a better term, that consists of pasteurized dairy products, raw water extract of grains as well as fruits and vegetables. We will discuss this diet in more detail in Chapter Four. The antidepressant diet is another approach that you can use to reduce adverse effects of the meat-based diets. The composition of the antidepressant diet is as follows:
     
25-75% of the diet (by weight) is low-fat milk, kefir or buttermilk and unprocessed unsalted cheese; these should be free from any artificial ingredients such as salt, sugar, added calcium or vitamins.
0-40% of the diet is water extract of grains, my personal favorite is the wheat extract; you can prepare it as described in Appendix I .
10-25% of the diet is fruits