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Originally Posted by The_Situation
this is what I meant. So broscience?
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Water can only pull apart ionic bonds (basically salts). If you had some protein complex mixed with some salt, it'd pull the two apart, but the two would still be present in your mix, and you'd still get them in their original form.
Proteins are both polar and non-polar based on their structure, so if you put them in water (which is polar) and water surrounds the polar proteins and puts them into the mix, the non-polar proteins are there as a solid/settle to the bottom of the container. There's no way for the protein to be denatured (damaged) in water .. maybe if you mixed it with orange juice or some acidic fluid, or maybe if you put it in a hot area (hot summer day in a car) it would denature, but the essential amino acids would still be there ... otherwise, mixed with water in a fridge would actually make the proteins pretty stable.
cole notes: protein in water, good.
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Originally Posted by DaFonz
Because the acids in your stomach don't break down shit at all.
It's similar to some people claiming that heat denatures proteins. Newsflash! So does your stomach!
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heat and acid do denature proteins .. but what your body needs is the amino acids. The proteins shape is changed, but the fundamental parts that it's made of are still there, and that's what your body needs to make muscle.