Nutrition Experts: What causes bumps in the fingernail?

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: schdaddy

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: schdaddy

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Hmm? Aparently you are rather ignorant towards vegetarianism.

Not really. How easy is it for you to get 175 grams of protein a day with a high biological value? Pretty damn hard.

175 grams!!!

you are rather:
A) freaky big as hell
B) wasting your time eating that much protein in a day trying to get freaky big as hell

plus too much protein makes it hard on your kidneys to remove all that nitrogen from your system

It's very common for weight lifters to have that much and common for many of them to have a hell of a lot more. In reality I have probably 150 a day. Although it's true what you said about too much being bad that doesn't necessitate that 150 is bad, or even that 200 is bad.

i don't question pro-lifters taking in much more protein daily than the avg person, but that doesn't mean the avg weightlifter has to double or triple their protein intake
i'm just saying, since your body can't store protein that most of your intake is just getting pissed away (and there is the possiblity of too much)

Ah, but the real question is, does a higher protein intake promote anabolism? If the higher intake can shift the catabolic state it will be worth it even though most of it will be converted and stored (as fat) or pushed out of your system...

Of all the amino acids some are used more than others, meaning that with a higher quality source you need less protein, so reasonably, to achieve the same results and only eating veggie food will be HARD... (as the protein from vegetable sources such as beans and lenses does not have the preferred AA profile)

So eating high amounts of good quality proteins is a good idea for weight lifters, i keep my intake at 250-350...

Amino Acids (AA) are the building blocks for protein. Protein is a polypeptide meaning it has 100 or more amino acids. There are over 300 AA that occur in nature but only 20 of them occour in proteins. There are only 9 AA that are essential for us humans. Essential means that our bodies does not make them so we HAVE to get them from our diet. Phonyalanime, Valine, Typtophan, Tyrosine, Isoleucine, Methionine, Histidine, Leucine and Lysine.

There are 3 catagories of proteins.

1. Nutritionally complete = they are complete becasue the contain all essential AA in Sufficant amounts
2. Nutritionally incomplete = they do not have ALL essential AA's
3. Complimentary proteins = Foods combined to give full compliment of essential AA's IE Red beans and Rice.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Too much protein, like all calories, will be stored as fat.

I could go into more detail how the conversion happens in the liver but my notes are out in my car and its too cold outside for me to go get them

so you mean that the energy in the protein is used to create more lipids which are then stored, correct?

 

[schdaddy]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Citrix

Too much protein, like all calories, will be stored as fat.

I could go into more detail how the conversion happens in the liver but my notes are out in my car and its too cold outside for me to go get them

so you mean that the energy in the protein is used to create more lipids which are then stored, correct?

YEP, anything containing calories (carbs, fat, protein) that doesn't get used = body fat.

 

[BD231]

The weight gain thing with protine is true, but it's nowhere near as bad as carbs, considering your body cant take much more than 40 to 45 grams a meal. I eat alot of protine in my diet, mainly because it keeps weight down, keeps my ripp-i-tude solid and I just feel better eating a bunch of it. I don't go as far as monitoring how much I take in, but I'd say about 130 to 150 in any given day (I drink a meal replacement in the morning which counts for 45 grams in itself). In any case more protine is better than putting a bunch of unhealthy carbs in your body.

 

[tcsenter]

Nail Abnormalities

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Please note that malnutrition is not just a casual condition of eating too many potato chips. Malnutrition means you either have very poor or inadequate eating and dietary habits overall, or you have an underlying medical condition which causes you to be seriously deficient in one or more vital areas of nutrition.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

IIRC it's zinc deficiency that causes things like that in your finger nails

It is extremely unlikely that zinc deficiency is causing the nail deformity . . . the majority of nutritional causes would produce profound symptoms by the time your nails start to show changes.

The temporal relationship of your dietary changes and nail improvement is interesting but not necessarily informative. Nail conditions (other than the obvious stuff like fungal infections and trauma) are almost always indicative of systemic illness. Unfortunately, nail changes are typically nonspecific so it is difficult to link MOST nail changes to a particular disease.

 

[Siddhartha]

Do you suck you thumb? That can cause similar problems.

 

[NokiaDude]

You're lucky, my nails look like Ruffles chips. They look regular nails from afar but they have the ridges, so annoying.