Wandering Adventure Party

Very interesting, but it’s wild to me that needles made from silk proteins are the first choice here. Surely there’s gotta be some plant protein or cellulose or such that’s a lot cheaper.

I do also wonder, if they looked at bringing out melatonin onto the fields before the harvest, in hope of the plants picking it up via their roots.
The article makes it sound like they had a solution (microneedles) in search of a problem, so maybe they didn’t even really look at other solutions. Which is fine, other studies can do that, but yeah, we should do that.

I found it useful. I think, it’s obvious enough that different substitutes will be suited for different uses and I wasn’t aware of most of these. Now I can go and research what they actually do…

For cooking, you can substitute with beans or tofu or such. If you want specifically egg-like taste, you might be able to find Kala Namak in the store, which is basically salt+sulphur.

However, I would very much question the choice to combine three protein-rich foods…

Hmm, so they did find a use for homeopathy after all.

I mean, I could argue a lack of vitamins, a lack of taste variation, a lack of foods that actually fill up your stomach and therefore satiate you, but really my main concern is constipation.

I guess, that is another way to fill up your stomach, when no food can leave your body, but it does mean you’re full of shit all the time.

Could be that it soaks a lot better in water, because almond milk has some amount of fat, which might block further water from getting into the seeds…

But well, I’ve never actually tried soaking chia seeds, so no idea.

Yeah, it really wasn’t clear. It could’ve also been sarcastic (because you might think it’s very obviously bad) or it could’ve been aggressive (because folks suffering from toxic masculinity will feel like you’re questioning their whole identity).
It’s just hard to tell from plain text, what your intention is. My response kind of had to navigate all three interpretations.

But yeah, so proteins are kind of cool, because they take relatively long to digest (similar to whole-grain foods, for example). This means they stay around in your stomach for multiple hours, keeping you relatively satiated over time and also helping to keep blood sugar levels at a steady rate (which is what we want).

But on the flipside, proteins don’t take up a lot of volume, so if you eat only protein-rich foods, you will have to eat far too much of it before you feel satiated, since our body mainly registers satiation by how full the stomach is.
This is made worse for bacon, egg and cheese, because they’re also relatively fatty/greasy foods, which is an even more condensed form of energy.

And unlike whole-grain foods or beans, there’s also not a lot of fiber in bacon/egg/cheese. Fiber passes through your digestive system undigested, meaning it’s free real estate volume to help fill up your stomach and it helps to loosen up what comes out on the other side.
Very little fiber in combination with the protein taking relatively long to digest is why constipation is likely when eating only protein-rich foods.

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