how does Protein work?

jaw breaker · Post by **jaw breaker** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:29 pm

do you gain or lose fat?

can i gain mucle on uper body and lose fat on lower body?

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:26 am

protein carries amino acids which are the building blocks of muscle...if you don't supplty the muscles AA's when they need them (i.e. straight after training) you won't recover befpre your next session...won't gain fat from too much protein but will from too many calories no matter what it's from (ccarbs, fat, protein)...and no you can't

bigballa1000 · Post by **bigballa1000** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:43 pm

"won't gain fat from too much protein but will from too many calories no matter what it's from (ccarbs, fat, protein)"
Actually you can gain fat from eating too much protein. The way that work is that when you ingest protein and if you body does not need it, then you body will convert that protein into fat for storage. Even unused carbs can be converted to fat.

sammiller · Post by **sammiller** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:01 pm

i thought u dint gain fat from protein if you had to much you just shit it out like it u body dont need a protein shake, but u put fat on from supplements with carbs in...so like swanso said

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:24 am

too much protein and you'll piss out what you don't use...too many calories from anything and you'll get fat

bigballa1000 · Post by **bigballa1000** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:26 pm

I can tell you the biological process of protein turning into fat but I am pretty sure you guys don't want to, So I researched and found an article that explains some stuff about proteins and other stuff. Here is the website:
http://www.lifelines.com/Cookbook/background/index.html