Re:Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ic...
by 1_player on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:47AM
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How do you explain rabbit starvation then?
Re:Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ic...
by yourkin on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:59AM
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A quick look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning
* it‘s hypothetical
* the ill effect is diarrhea
* some people have lived off a meat only diet successfully
* personal theory is the problem is not excess protein, but lack of fiber and gut biome degradation
Any mono-diet is nutritionally a bad idea, especially taken to extremes. But — one would simply not survive at all on a monodiet of pure fat or carbs.
believe it or not, by your definition carbs are also essential, it’s just that the body can produce them
Protein -> carbs by gluconeogenesis
Isoleucine and phenylalanine are exclusively ketogenic and produce ketone bodies.
Leucine can be used to synthesize fatty acids in adipose tissue.
The only 2 fats that we really need are omega-3 and omega-6, but not in huge amounts, thankfully, both not from meat.
Point is, one can more readily survive without a major source of fat or carbs.