What Disease Does Not Allow You to Eat Protein? A Look at Inherited Metabolic Disorders
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Approximately 1 in 25,000 newborns in the United States are born with Phenylketonuria (PKU), a genetic disorder that answers the question: What disease does not allow you to eat protein, at least in a conventional sense. It is one of several inherited metabolic disorders that interfere with the body’s ability to process specific amino acids, the building blocks of protein.
