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Despite the fact that whey is the most used supplement in any kind of sport it is always surrounded by misinformation for the same reason, as is usual tends to be the first supplement used by any type of athlete where the lack of knowledge and experience rein and also because brands try to project an image that simply does not exist.
The use of Whey dates back to the year 5000 BC when man started to make cheese but back then nothing was known about the substance and in the middle ages whey had some incorrect uses such as a pharmaceutical drug and as a vitality potion. Once the production of cheese has gained more importance and volume, producers of cheese sough that there was a market for this substance without any real use, before that, whey was just thrown away in rivers causing pollution which killed plants and fish . Whey is the portion net result of the separation of the curd during the production process of traditional cheese or casein. Currently whey is used in two priority sectors : human and animal food, the last being made only because most producers of cheese have no monetary power to buy equipment that can extract pure whey from the curd.
