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Why is protein digested by the body?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Proteins you eat are 'Foreign proteins' to your body. If they enter like that in your body will provoke immunological response. So they must be separated to individual Amine acids and absorbed. They will be 'rearranged' according to the need of the body to form body proteins.

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