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Meta-analysis about the amounts & role of protein required to sustain lean body mass. "∼32–46 g of high-quality dietary protein/day is reported to be required to maintain protein balance (2). This is considerably less than amounts of protein reportedly consumed by American adults (∼65–100+ g/day)" The remaining protein is deaminated, turned into glucose, and oxidized as fuel. Many studies report that, despite this, feeding protein does not seem to increase blood glucose. This study fed doubly-labeled protein from whole eggs and traced how much of the glucose entering the bloodstream during the following 8h came from this protein. It ended up being only around 4%. It therefore seems that the process of gluconeogenesis is highly regulated, it's not that "excess protein automatically gets turned into glucose and dumped in the bloodstream."