When you cook your foods, you destroy the digestive enzymes present
that help your body absorb the food.
Your body is smart however and will find a way to deal with this. You can’t have undigested
food sitting in your gut for the rest of time, so it has worked out a solution.
This solution is to utilize its own resources to assimilate digestive enzymes so that food can
be broken down. How does it do this?
It breaks down bodily protein to do so. Since digestive enzymes are made from protein, if
they aren’t present and your body has to create them, it needs those raw materials to do so.
Do you know where protein is found in your body? In your muscle cells.
So in essence, when you take in that large
dose of cooked protein, your body realizes
it needs some digestive enzymes in order
to break this food down and as such,
rapidly begins breaking down your lean
muscle mass in order to create them.
And it only gets worse. The more protein
you eat, ‘supposedly to preserve lean
muscle mass’, the more muscle breakdown
you start to see.
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