Dietary Protein, part4: Consequences of low-protein diets

This is a series of articles/videos on the dietary protein component of my 5-part PaleoMediterranean Diet

This is a series of articles/videos on the dietary protein component of my 5-part PaleoMediterranean Diet:

1. Part 1—VIDEO: Overview, history, and 1-hour conference presentation (video, linked here and below)

2. Part 2—UPDATED VIDEO: The eight (8) major considerations in the conversation on dietary protein (video, linked here and below)

3. Part 3: Dietary Protein, Spanish sardines, cheese, pesto, and coffee

4. THIS PAGE Part 4: Elderly women accommodate to a low-protein diet with losses of body cell mass, muscle function, and immune response

Consequences of low-protein diets:

1. Progressive muscle loss, and strength loss, leading to dependency, accidents 

2. Bone loss, promoting fractures Ž

3. Sarcopenia promotes insulin resistance 

4. Increased probability of deficiencies of iron, zinc, vitamin A, EPA, DHA, B12 thereby also promoting inflammation, mental depression 

5. Immunosuppression, increased risk of infection

6. Impaired healing following surgery, injury

Elderly women accommodate to a low-protein diet with losses of body cell mass, muscle function, and immune response. Am J Clin Nutr 1995

One of the earliest articles that I read and taught on this topic when I was teaching Orthopedics (2000) at Bastyr University is the one excerpted in the image above and included (as a new unannotated PDF copy) below

Protein Diet With Losses Of Body Cell Mass, Muscle Function, And Immune

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