Md> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 02:46:08 -0500 (EST) Md> From: Michael Clingman <[log in to unmask]> Md> To: undisclosed.recipients:;@clark.net Md> Subject: veg-raw: re: too much protein (fwd) -Reply (fwd) Md> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Md> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 09:43:11 -0800 Md> From: Martha Seagoe <[log in to unmask]> Md> To: [log in to unmask] Md> Subject: veg-raw: re: too much protein (fwd) -Reply Md> I thought I read somewhere that the body can reuse the protein from Md> the dead cells to build new ones (except, of course, hair, nails and Md> skin cells Md> that are sloughed). Anybody know if this is true? That may have been from me?? "It has been estimated from isotopic tracer experiments that in a 70 Kg man on an average diet about 400g of protein turns over each day. Up to 1/4 of this amount undergoes oxidative degradation or conversion into glucose and is replaced daily from the exogenous intake: the remaining 3/4 is recycled." [Lehninger, Biochemistry, 1981, p. 559.]