>"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreig...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> LOL -- but seriously, I heard or read once that excess protein is
>> simply excreted out.  I also read, much more often, that excess protein
>> becomes fat (and I thought only excess carbs can become fat).

>> So what, exactly, is excreted in the form of feces?  (If you must quip
>> -- please make it funny, at least.)  I know most of it is intestinal
>> bacteria, but what exactly is the "waste"??  Okay, fiber, and make that
>> grit of sand which wasn't washed off from your lettuce...but what else?

>> I ask 'cause it seems awfully wasteful if excess protein is what's
>> excreted...at the same time, I guess that's better than the body
>> building more fat cells to imprision it!  Such a chore getting all
>> three things -- training, diet, and rest -- right at the same time
>> regularly over the long-haul....

>The body can't store excess protein as protein so it does a combination of
>two things - breaks it down in the liver and pees it out (not feces, but
>pee) and some it breaks down and stores as fat.  There is certainly no
>benefit to excess protein.