diff --git a/education/nutrition/Proteins.md b/education/nutrition/Proteins.md index b2337a3..a48a5e1 100644 --- a/education/nutrition/Proteins.md +++ b/education/nutrition/Proteins.md @@ -98,4 +98,20 @@ Summary: - Recovery - Serious illness - Blood losses - - Burns \ No newline at end of file + - Burns + +# Digestion +- Protein digestion begins in the stomach +- Hydrochloric acid denatures food proteins and activates pepsin + - Gastric enzymes that break proteins down into smaller polypeptides +- After polypeptides enter the small intestine, the pancreas secretes protein splitting enzymes. +- Trypsin and chymotrypsin +- Enzymes released by absorptive cells break down shortened peptides into dipeptides and tripeptides + - Two and three amino acids respectively +- Amino acids are carried to absorptive cells by carrier systems +- After absorption, amino acids enter the capillary of villus + - Travel to liver via hepatic portal vein + - Liver keeps some amino acids + - Release the rest into circulation +- Protein turnover is the cellular process of breaking down proteins and recycling their amino acids. + - Endogenous is a source of nitrogen \ No newline at end of file