Comments on: What Are Good Sources of Protein? – Digestibility

By: lylemcd

lylemcd — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:13:30 +0000

I’d eat it myself.

By: diet and nutrition

diet and nutrition — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:20:09 +0000

What are the optimum conditions for protein digestion to work in the human body? diet and nutrition

By: admin

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:43:52 +0000

If a protein has low digestibility, by definition it won’t ever get to the kidneys in the first place. Digestibility has to do with whether or not it gets absorbed from the gut in the first place. If it doesn’t make it into the body, the kidney never has to deal with it.

If there’s a reason that certain diseases are occurring with greater incidence in kids I’d post that it’s probably to do far more with increasing childhood obesity and inactivity.

By: Shagufta

Shagufta — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:13:06 +0000

Does having too much of ‘less digestive’ proteins have a strain on one’s kidneys and eventually leads to their failure in the long run? In today’s fast moving life we subject children to many flavoured protein+vitamin powders (so called ‘health drinks’ for growing children). Are these one of the reasons that kids of today are being subject to diseases like diabetes, kidney stones and even failures at a young age. I have come across a few cases around me, wherein young people below 30 years have have kidney failures and are undergoing dialysis.

By: kevin@protein-powder.com

kevin@protein-powder.com — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:51:49 +0000

Hey great information! Love the “So What is Digestibility?” section. Nice! Thanks so much!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:52:35 +0000

Lol: Digestibility will still hold for mixed meals.

DJMark: I’ve seen nothing (not that comes to mind anyhow) examining differences in humans (gut length won’t vary that much between folks) in terms of digestion but, outside of the situation of injury, surgery (e.g. resection of the intestine) or severe disease, I wouldn’t expect it to vary massively between individuals. There has been some recent work on calorie/nutrient absorption based on the microflora of the gut but I’ve yet to see numbers put to it in terms of how much this can actually differ between individuals. When I’ve got more useful data to present, I’ll write an article about it.

By: DjMark

DjMark — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:39:40 +0000

Is the digestibility the same value when you eat the protein along with other foods?
Or is the above table only for use, when you eat the protein alone?

By: Lol

Lol — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:10:37 +0000

So, when looking at the actual protein part of a generic protein powder like whey, it’s going to have around 97% digestibility?

What sort of genetic variation is there in the length of the small intestine in humans? This will also effect protein digestibility for an individual, no?

By: admin

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:04:36 +0000

Re: vegetable digestibility and fiber. Yeah probably.

MAP and 100% digestibility? Total bullshit.

And meat is still 94% digestibility, humans evolved eating that too which is why we do such a good job with it. Not just milk and cheese.

Lyle

By: Iván

Iván — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:45:41 +0000

What do you think about MAP (master aminoacid patern) and his claimed 100% digestibility?; crap?.