Professor Lee Seung-hoon of the Department of Neurology at Seoul National University Hospital, a stroke expert, appeared on the YouTube channel 'Knowledge Inside' released on the 9th and was asked, 'Which supplements people take but actually have no effect?' and said, "Protein supplements are the most absurd." Professor Lee emphasized, "Glutathione, albumin, and collagen are all broken down and then absorbed no matter what meal we eat," adding, "Protein is completely broken down into amino acids, and fat is broken down into fatty acids before absorption, In other words, even when we eat food, we absorb it as its components." He said, "When you take protein-based supplements like albumin, glutathione, and collagen, they break down into amino acids, including glutamic acid, glutamine, leucine, isoleucine, valine, aspartic acid, and among methionine, threonine, and serine, the representative glutamic acid is the same compound as MSG, which we consider unhealthy." In conclusion, "Taking a lot of albumin and glutathione is like swallowing seasonings," and added, "These days, suddenly When patients asked if edible albumin was trending, at first I thought it was a joke." He continued, "Albumin breaks down when ingested, so it's inevitably made by injection," and dismissed it, saying, "If you give it protein, it will obviously be completely broken down into seasonings and consumed by the patient." Former Korean Medical Association president Joo Soo-ho also recently criticized some doctors on his social media for participating in albumin health supplement advertisements, saying, "Albumin is a group of people with extremely poor nutritional status." It is the global consensus in the medical community that it is only medically beneficial when administered intravenously to patients," ,,, argued, "Injecting or taking albumin in a person with normal nutritional status is beneficial to health, but it is an act that abuses doctors' authority to mislead the general public."
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