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If you're not getting enough protein in your diet the body turns on itself and starts to consume it's own proteins. These are the structural proteins in cells and tissues and the soluble proteins (including blood proteins, enzymes, antibodies and the like). This leads to loss of tissue and a reduction in the concentration of blood proteins. These soluble blood proteins - found in the plasma - are responsible for creating the osmotic pressure which draws tissue fluid into the capillaries. The reduction in the osmotic pressure gradient between blood and tissue fluid means that more fluid leaves the capillaries at the arterial end and less is re-absorbed at the venous end of the capillary network. The fluid then builds up in the tissues, a condition known as oedema.

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