And you were answering:
| When we eat excess protein, how is it stored?
| I imagine some of it converted to glycogen and glucose by the liver.
| Some enters cell to be burned.
| Does the excess mostly stay in the blood?
| How would we even know we have excess protein?
| Is there a common blood measurement for this?
The test is for ketones in the blood. This, IIRC, can be OK, but it
might also be indicative of other problems.

Which gave me the impression that you were saying that ketones measured the
protein in the blood as the prior poster was asking for a test for excess
protein.

Billy wrote:
| In article ,
| "FOB" wrote:
|
|| Those are symptoms, not the item detected by the strips.
||
|| "When glycogen stores are not available in the cells, fat
|| (triacylglycerol) is cleaved to give 3 fatty acid chains and 1
|| glycerol molecule in a process called lipolysis. Most of the body is
|| able to utilize fatty acids as an alternative source of energy in a
|| process called beta-oxidation. One of the products of beta-oxidation
|| is acetyl-CoA, which can be further used in the Krebs cycle. During
|| prolonged fasting or starvation, acetyl-CoA in the liver is used to
|| produce ketone bodies instead, leading to a state of ketosis. During
|| starvation or a long physical training session, the body starts
|| utilizing fatty acids instead of glucose. The brain cannot use fatty
|| acids for energy because the fatty acids cannot cross the
|| blood-brain barrier. However, the ketone bodies produced in the
|| liver can cross the blood-brain barrier. In the brain, these ketone
|| bodies are then incorporated into acetyl-CoA and used in the Krebs
|| cycle."
||
|| Billy wrote:
| And the question I was answering was,"I thought the ketones were from
| fat, showing that your body is burning fat rather than glucose."
| You're welcome to keep free associating, but I answered the question
| that you posed.
|||
||| http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003585.htm
|||
||| What Abnormal Results Mean
||| A positive test may indicate:
|||
|||
| (snip)
||| € High protein or low carbohydrate diets
| (snip)