Phil, I too wonder if the mother's diet can influence the nutrient composition but if Mark Sissom's recent article is of any validity than it appears it does not matter much.
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/nursing-primal-blueprint-diet/Apparently even under starvation conditions the milk will remain nutrient dense as the milk will strip the mother of nutrients regardless of her well being. The mother will lose lean body mass rapidly if she eats the RDA for protein. I still don't have a source for low-carb dieter milk composition and wonder if there would be any shift from carb to fat.
It is still quite puzzling that human breast milk contains so much carbohydrate (the most among mammals?) and so little protein (the least?). Infants drink about 700ml of breast milk a day for approximately 50g of carbs (mostly lactose). The adult human brain needs 50-60g of glucose per day to function properly and an infants brain is 30% the size of an adult brain at birth so I could guess that humans might need quite a bit more carb content just for proper brain function and this would be the reason for the relatively high amount in the milk.
This still leaves protein at a low amount - just 1g/100ml where as cow milk is 3.5g/100ml. The best way I can explain this is that humans grow so much slower than most(every?) other mammals. At least this shows that growth can take place with quite low amounts of protein - just 7g/day.
Nation, yea there are surely lots of other non-protein nitrogen containing compounds like hormones and enzymes. Wiki lists them to be at 25% of the total nitrogen amount.
This gives me even more reason to experiment with low-protein diets even when trying to add muscle as even during our most anabolic period in life we require little protein.
Also interesting - in one of the comments from the sissom article it states that additional calcium and magnesium supplements might be needed if the diet is too high in animal protein. Well this matches up with the inland inuit who experienced early onset bone loss, perhaps with a diet too high in protein. hmmm...
Also, can anyone give an explanation as to why our protein needs would change from such a low amount - 5 percent - to 10-20% range for adulthood??
Perhaps this has to do with efficiency. Mothers milk is probably supremely efficient at giving an infant exactly the kinds of proteins it needs so nothing at all is wasted. There are indigenous cultures that survive well off of 10% protein. Perhaps with raw it can be even less and then the difference would be negligible - though adults are no longer growing.