TOTAL PROTEIN
Total proteins are divided into two fractions: albumin, and globulin (alpha, beta, and gamma). Please note that total protein also includes fibrinogen.
Therefore total protein is made up of albumin, globulin and fibrinogen, all produced in the liver.
These are the plasma proteins necessary to produce enzymes, antibodies, clotting factors, kinin precursors, and transport substances for hormones, vitamins, minerals, fats, etc.
For example, plasma proteins combine with cholesterol forming lipoproteins such as VLDL, LDL’s, HDL’s etc.
The lipoproteins then combine with minerals via enzyme metabolism to form and renew sex hormones such as testosterone, estrogen, progesterone etc.
Other deaminated proteins produced in the liver, combusts at the mitochondrial level to form cell structures. These are your tissue building proteins known as nucleoproteins, DNA and RNA (your proteins of mitosis and meiosis).
Since there are many glands involved in protein digestion, it is very difficult to make a determination from total protein alone.
Glands and organs involved with protein control are as follows:
*The anterior pituitary, which controls all glands of protein digestion, such as the
adrenals, thyroid, pancreatic head, sex organs, and spleen
*That parotid glands which tag lipoproteins with copper
*The parathyroids via the calcium/magnesium mobilization of lipoproteins
*The thyroid which denitrifies protein in the liver
*The pancreas by trypsin and chymotrypsin which, prepares the protein for assimilation into the bloodstream
*The sex organs that prepare protein for final deposition into the cells
* Any combination of the above
TOTAL PROTEIN IS LOW WHEN
General considerations:
o Increase protein intake
o Increase B acid vitamins