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 > ============ > Daniel R. Lurie > ============ > >