At 6:17 PM -0400 22/6/04, Thomas Dekany wrote:

>I am an A1 blood that suppose to do well with low protein intake and I
>have consumed 350 gr of protein a day for long periods of times. I am
>still here and healthy. Everyone's intake is different. Do you actually
>try any of these diets?

It's not a diet. It's a method of estimating one's maximum safe
protein intake.


> Can you back up the claims that you die if eating too much protein?

This was extensively thrashed out on this list in July 2003.

I refer you to this page for a classic textbook description of
nitrogen metabolism:
http://www.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/nitrogen-metabolism.html

Note especially the bits about ammonia and how it's a neurotoxin.

...R.