tastyfood
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If the goal is methionine/cysteine/tryptophan restriction, gelatin is indeed negligible since it has no cysteine and tryptophan and only small amounts of methionine. And from what I hear from Peat's interviews, this seems to be the main reason for his low protein experiment. So @GreekDemiGod has a point when he asks whether gelatin does "count". I wonder if a diet high in protein but low in methionine/cysteine/tryptophan would still somewhat supress thyroid function. And I'm aware that such a diet does not really occur in reality and is rather a theoretical discussion.
Not sure I understand your comment. Why would a protein source be negligible as far as protein goes if it has zero or small amounts of some of the amino acids. Being really simplistic, the Collagen can labels show protein amounts.
I do understand that if one is getting a lot of protein from collagen, that the rest of the protein can be upped a bit even in the context of protein restriction.