Illustration 20a: Blood clot that caused heart attack in 54-year old manIllustration 20b: Healthy, open artery of a 100-year old womanA person who eats too many simple carbohydrate foods (sugar, bread and pasta) or fats in a particular
meal may have elevated concentrations of these substances and the cholesterol-containing lipoproteins in
his blood. But a blood test would also reveal a higher concentration of proteins if he ate a large protein
meal. Nutritional science assumes that protein is completely burned during the digestive process, despite
the fact that no scientific evidence supports such an assumption. The current hypothesis is that whatever
protein the cells don't use or need continues to circulate in the blood until it is broken down by liver
enzymes and excreted as urea.
A major problem arises when a person does not have enough of these enzymes to remove the excessive
protein from the bloodstream. The liver of a Kapha or Pitta type, for example, requires only very few food
proteins to sustain the body, and therefore has only a limited capacity to break down food proteins. If liver