Importance Of Protein

The importance of protein in one’s diet cannot be overstated. Protein is the basic building block of all life on planet Earth. For us humans, there are roughly 100,000 different proteins, which make up approximately 75% of our dry weight. Proteins are critical for nearly every bodily function and metabolic activity. In fact, since life began to evolve here, the digestive or food acquisition system of every living organism has been formed around its need for protein and survival has been dependent on adequate and constant supply.

But protein is not just a constituent of food. Just as important, it’s also information. When you eat protein, you are taking in “instructions” that tell all the parts of your body to behave in very specific ways generally to promote health or facilitate thousands of bodily functions. It has recently been discovered that di and tripeptides carry information as well, information that amino acids by themselves do not contain. Consequently delivering protein into your blood primarily as di and tripeptides rather than free form amino acids is superior from a nutritional and overall performance standpoint. Proto Whey contains over 50% of its protein as di and tripeptides, a claim no other current protein or hydrolysate can make.

Protein has a key role in the development and maintenance of our muscular, nervous, neural immune, digestive and circulatory systems, and it is critical to proper functioning of these systems. Digestive and other enzymes are proteins as are the tissues and fluids that muscle, blood, internal organs, skin, hair and nails are composed of. Proteins act as the messengers and in some cases the actual messages flowing between various organs and tissues including those that take place at the level of our DNA itself. As the scientific community comes to understand more and more about the human body, the vital role of proteins in facilitating genetic information and messaging throughout all our cells is being uncovered.