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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
The best way to learn something new but maybe not useful or true is to say an obviously wrong fact on an internet forum with a total confidence.
People will step over themselves to explain it like it is a supermarket opening on a Black Friday morning
It’s a never patched CVE-1980-1 in an internet nerd mind that causes a dump of the victim’s volatile memory
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The most infuriating discussion I had online about proteins was with a vegan, their claim was "there is no such thing as essential amino acids". Couldn't get it into their head that a) there are essential amino acids but b) yes, unless you eat so horribly lopsided it's unknown of anywhere but in horribly deprived populations or among some indigenous folks (pretty much only eating manioc or such) there's nothing to worry about, you'll get your essentials. Kinda like Vitamin C deficiency being unheard of in the developed world because even the most gutter-rat of diets still contains enough as an antioxidant. Still not a bad idea to pair beans with rice and lentils with noodles or bread, though, IMNSHO they just taste better that way around.
Especially infuriating as it was a vegan. If you choose to have a diet that requires nutritional knowledge to get right then don't suck at it, and call your fellow travellers out when they're spewing BS. I really doubt vegans are keen on yet another "I stopped being vegan and it fixed my anaemia" story. Take an apple or two. Either eat them, there's your iron, or make a sauce that works with a sour/sweet accent and prepare it in an iron skillet, there, even more iron. It's not hard but you gotta stop pretending that vegans can get by without understanding nutrition.
I agree but I think they cared about something else. Calling them essential creates an emotional argument against being vegetarian. As you say, there is usually no deficiency, so they are 'literally' not 'essential'.
Like the usage of literally, people don't care about being technically correct.
There's not a single nutrient you can't get from plants or fungi, that wasn't the issue. But yes it's literally essential for vegans to know what they need as unlike the rest of us, they are way less covered by simply grabbing something from the supermarket shelf.
I agree again with those facts but that's not the point.
Back in my day, we had 20 amino acids and we were happy.
But seriously, what are the other 2, I am presuming we are counting seleno-cystine? and i checked for the other one I had completely forgotten - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrolysine
That's not a biochemist, memorizing the amino acids is literally biochem 1 on college. Most people with a biology undergrad take that.
Being a biochemist is more about understanding the whole system of how proteins interact, and not really about memorization of any specific protein.
You're the clown.
The sad part is that there isn't any real answer, like a lot of fundamental things in science we don't really know how it works and won't for decades. My personal theory is more along the lines of the whole tearing muscles concept is crap and exercise is basically just a signal for your body to make more muscle and doesn't directly cause anything.
So...basically science don't know shit but can't stop speaking like it does.
No, you're thinking of religion.
Depends on the meaning of the invokation of the word "science."
To iterate that, in some such, you are correct. In others, six one way half a dozen the other.
True, but it sounds so hostile that I almost agree with the downvotes.
Most people can't handle the Clown.
I handle the Clown like a priest. Be careful of what the priest says. It may completely disfigure that of the not-fully-developed such. Here's the real kicker. None of you can be unless you accept that as a fact.
To iterate further, in a true invokation, science is an art of language. Not far from "religion" to say so. In one invokation, it is the picture we can reproduce based on the image it depicts into understanding of reality.
To make the other, I'd like to reference Joao Magueijo's Faster than the Speed of Light book. This book demonstrates how we can both be right and wrong in an alternative perspective of what is real.
This, like, "The Big Bang" theory is some kind of similar notion to the Speed of Light the way he is sort of correcting but sort of saying that's right in the same painting he is writing.
Of course its right. Of course its wrong. I'll do that in a simple few paragraphs.
What happens when a black hole is large enough to make the wavelength it generates out large enough to be matter?
That's a big bang. It'll probably eat more matter than is in our current visible 'verse to capitualate such a scenario but the visibility of our 'verse doesn't make the end of it. There are more "Big Bangs" than there are visible stars in any and every method we may percieve such. In fact, I can articulate that there are infinate such "Big Bangs".
Prove me wrong.
I had to take a 300 level biochem class and 2 semesters of O Chem and we didn’t have to memorize the structures of all the amino acids. Like we had to know glycine and we had to know about the different amino acids like how proline has a rigid structure but we were never expected to be able to draw an amino acid from memory
Well, biochemists do know the structure of amino acids, so it's technically correct. The fact they know more makes this situation even more probable.
Gym bro is just trying to distract the giant standing off camera to the right
Gym myths are my favorite. The best past is the extreme prevalence of survivorship bias, with most of the bad advice coming from people who have succeeded but are themselves mistaken about why.
i.e. Massive bro is adamant that everyone should be taking BCAAs, beginners are inclined to believe it because it looks like he knows what he’s talking about.
I think the fitness industry makes most of its money this way tbh
It’s like the cosmetics industry. Keep shifting what products will give you the look you want, whether it be beautiful hair or massive pecs. Tell you all the lies about what the product might do for you, then tell you to accessorize the product with whatever fringe benefit you’re looking for, and constantly keep changing the “science” so you jump from product to product for the latest and greatest thing that will make you look good.
Don’f forget to add fucked up exercises, grips, and positions to your workout, too, that place you at a greater risk of injury. Broscience.
My wife is one of these consumers. She shes all these influencers pushing working out products and she uses everything she can get her hands on. Then she wonders why when she trains for, and runs a full marathon, she doesnt lose any weight. Well you take thousands of calories of supplements... just run
Yeah you can't run off a bad diet, you do need to make sure you are getting enough protein aligned with your goals, and some fats, but outside of that, you just need to eat less than you burn.
Running might help increase the deficit a bit, or give you some extra food, but you're probably going to struggle to cover thousands of additional calories.