If you consume protien in an attempt to grow more muscle wouldn't the protien just denature in the acid of your stomach and therefore not help at all?
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The body does not use dietary proteins intact--it first breaks them down and uses the component amino acids to make its own proteins. When you eat protein, it is denatured and hydrolyzed into amino acids and small peptides (2 or 3 amino acids in length) and these are then absorbed and enter your body's total pool of amino acids. The amino acids then travel in the blood to the muscle, are taken up by the muscle cells, and are used to make new proteins.
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Proteins are biochemical compounds consisting of one or more polypeptides typically folded into a globular or fibrous form, facilitating a biological function. Proteins also have structural or mechanical functions, such as actin and myosin in muscle and the proteins in the cytoskeleton, which form a system of scaffolding that maintains cell shape. Myosins comprise a family of ATP-dependent motor proteins and are best known for their role in muscle contraction and their involvement in a wide range of other eukaryotic motility processes.