My understanding is the around 60% of injested protein has the ability to
participate in gluconeogenesis but that it is a very inefficient process and
only occurs when there is a huge surplus of protein and little carbo.  Also,
high protein in the blood from an high protein meal DIRECTLY stimulates insulin
secretion, and is not the result of a rise in blood sugar from gluconeogenis.
But I might have been napping that lecture ;)

   Wade

On Fri, 14 May 2004 22:53:25 +0000, Daniel Lurie wrote:

> My understanding was that 60% of protein is gluconized.
>
> On May 14, 2004, at 10:45 PM, WADE REESER wrote:
>
> > That's interesting Marilyn, I think I will hunt up that article at my
> > local library and see what the entire article says.  I think everyone
> > agrees that protein meals result in the secretion of insulin but it's
> > not clear to me from this summary if it says much about how much
> > relative
> > to carbos and what other dynamic result.  From other articles I've
> > read,
> > the 'significant' rise of insulin really means merely that it was
> > markedly above
> > base variations.
> >
> >   Thanks,
> >
> >   Wade
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