It is a well established fact that protein is essential for bodybuilding. You need protein in your diet to make you get muscles. But it happens that sometimes you are taking heavy meats and still you are not getting the desired amount of protein in your body without taking supplements. One of the most important proteins that you need for your body is whey protein. Let me tell you advantages and disadvantages of using whey protein.

Now advantages of using whey protein are huge but we will only discuss important ones here. Use of whey protein stimulates the production of LGF-1 and this in turn stimulates growth. Whey proteins help you to get better immunity system which helps to sustain injuries or muscle wear and tear during heavy workouts of bodybuilding and also it helps to grow muscles. Whey proteins have branched chain amino acids in large numbers and these amino acids are required by your body because you lose them when your muscles catabolize. Very few of the bodybuilders know that our body muscles are damaged as much as they get built during bodybuilding. Whey proteins replace everything that your muscles lose.

Whey proteins increase the production of endogenous glutathione thereby helping to detoxify the body. This helps again to immune your body better.

Another great advantage of whey proteins is that they act as natural pain killers because they have essential amino acids for that. This is how bodybuilders are able to work day after day without muscle pains. This is very important because some of the guys simply stop their workouts or decrease them just because they cannot bear the pain involved. So a great advantage of whey protein is that it keeps us up for the challenge of bodybuilding.

It has the disadvantage that the products of this protein available in the market are fairly expensive and this makes them out of reach of most of the guys. Those that are available at affordable prices normally are either of low quality or full of sugar.

Now those who are serious bodybuilders will definitely go for the intake of this protein because its advantages are enormous. Cost is the only issue involve and is the only disadvantage. What most of the professionals do is that they go for high and low quality at the same time just to ensure that they are getting it there in their diet.