HTHSCI 3BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Water Intoxication, High-Protein Diet, Nitrogen Balance

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HTHSCI 3BB3
• Professor: Teresa Mccurdy

Document Summary

Proteins are vitally important to keep the fluid in the vessel where it belongs. Protein draws the fluid back into the vessel. If it is essential, the body can"t make it essential to be obtained in the diet. Conditionally essential: if we have enough of a certain essential aa, then we can make certain conditionally nonessential aas bc we have the materials. If the gut is a little leaky, we can get proteins that are whole coming into the gut, immune system doesn"t like this. New study the earlier kids are introduced to peanuts and other common allergen, less likely to develop allergy (honey is the one exception bc of clostridium spores) Proteins are the only macronutrient that contains nitrogen. Dna tells the body which proteins to make. We do not store protein - any protein in the body is functional = it is there for a purpose.