Here's what I am thinking about... If we eat more protein than our body requires for repairing body tissues, the rest is converted to carbs/glucose.
If so, then a high protein diet actually supplies us with a lot of carbs, right?
So, then, real low carbing should involve eating modest amount of protein, and not a gross excess of protein. Otherwise it is not really low carb.
Makes sense?
i
How do you explain bodybuilders that taper the carbs and increase the protein during cutting? If all that protein was converted to sugar, how would they ever drop the extra pounds?
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Ignoramus26161 said:
Here's what I am thinking about... If we eat more protein than our body requires for repairing body tissues, the rest is converted to carbs/glucose.
If so, then a high protein diet actually supplies us with a lot of carbs, right?
So, then, real low carbing should involve eating modest amount of protein, and not a gross excess of protein. Otherwise it is not really low carb.
Makes sense?
i
How do you explain bodybuilders that taper the carbs and increase the protein during cutting? If all that protein was converted to sugar, how would they ever drop the extra pounds?
My guess would be: by eating fewer calories than they use.
To address ig's point less oliquely, I think the flaw in his reasoning is that glucose created through protein metabolism does not have the same effect on blood sugar, hunger, etc. as glucose consumed directly. But others surely know more about this than I.
