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I bet the lead count in their system changed.
https://www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein-powders-and-shakes-contain-high-levels-of-lead-a4206364640/
Oh yeah, I forgot about this. It's going to be tough to do anything about this with the current administration in office.
Also there's arsenic is lots of brown rice. I think the stuff from California or India is pretty safe.
You're exposed to far more lead and other heavy metals living near a road than with this. So no, not a measurable amount.
Wait till you learn what happens when you eat animals
Fairly certain it's not lead poisoning
It's shorter life, cardiac disease, and cancer.
Don't forget diabetes.
Reposting my comment from another thread about this so people stop spreading this bullshit around:
I have a Garden of Life powder so I did a little digging and the powder I have and the Garden of Life powder tested in this report are both NSF certified. I trust NSF way more than I trust CR when it comes to contaminant levels, NSF is trusted by multiple countries for their public health standards. Also the "level of concern" used by CR is not the max level of safe consumption, it's the minimum level to trigger a Prop 65 warning. Some agencies use 8.8 ug, the NSF used 10 ug, which are about ~15-20 times the 0.5 ug used by CR. This is also from one round of testing, NSF does yearly audits and re-tests products regularly to keep their NSF certification.
https://www.nsf.org/nutrition-wellness/product-and-ingredient-certification
That being said, it is healthier to get your protein from whole foods than from powders and most people wildly overestimate how much protein they actually need.
Amen to that. It's hilarious to watch the protein craze in action. I thought it might gradually die down decades ago, due to being able to find reliable information very easily. Instead it's gotten remarkably worse over time.