Dr. Jason Fung

It's like, you know, coffee's not really supposed to have any protein, but it's a selling point.

And it's like, do you really need some ultra processed protein?

Like, is that actually good for you?

And that's a good question.

And it's a bit nuanced, but the thing about protein is that

it actually gets turned into glucose when you eat too much of it, okay?

And the reason is that your body can store energy, so calories, as sugar and as fat.

It doesn't store protein, which is amino acids, as energy because it's not.

So if you eat an excessive amount of protein,

You can't store that protein.

What you have to do is turn the protein into glucose, right?

So obviously that's not a great thing.

But the question is then for an average person, how much of the protein they eat in a day is being turned into glucose?

Because if it's zero, then hey, maybe there's room to push up the protein.

And the problem is, and they've done these studies, is that how much percent of your protein is getting turned into glucose?

Because obviously, if 0% of your protein goes into glucose, then you can push the protein up a little bit, right?

But it turns out that for an average person, it's around 60% or 70% of the protein that you eat is actually getting turned into glucose.

So now if you push that

protein up, what's going to happen?

Well, all of that, like 100% of the excess protein you're going to eat is going to get turned into glucose because you've stored as much protein as you can, right?