Imma have to hit you with a UAA, UGA and a UAG just to make sure.
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I know the feeling. I've also been given the stern "don't say anything" look. But joke's on them, because I neither know enough to debunk the most random claims on the spot, nor know how to synthesize a semester worth of college in five sentences and be understood perfectly every time.
How about I synthesize them aminos in my biceps, amigos
I'll seek myself out
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My health teacher wayyy back had an amino acid drink he’d bring in each day.
Haha, I take an amino acid to make me stop biting my nails. Works though, pretty wild.
Wait what? You take a pill, and it stops nail biting???
It works for about half the people that try it from what I have read. I got lucky. I never had luck with anything else. Mine likely stems from mild hereditary ocd FWIW. It's one of those problems I never thought a pill would fix lol.
https://www.bfrb.org/post/n-acetylcysteine-for-hair-pulling-skin-picking-and-nail-biting
You'll want to look at the studies for dosages.
I love that this works, but this is basically black magic to me.
This is still in the medical trials stage. Long term effects are yet unknown, most of the study participants have been women. It is reccommended to also undergo therapy at the same time. Do not just take this, or at the very least read the recent papers so you know what you may get yourself into regarding side effects. Self-medication without medical supervision is a bad idea. And the current data does not paint a complete picture in what to expect, from what I found.
My road to stop nailbiting was "cover your nail in foul-tasting liquid, and make sure to get a new one every day because you will get used to everything". And that took a year or so.
So I love that better options exist now, but you're absolutely right that self-medication is pretty much always a bad idea.
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Amazing find though! For me it makes my nose super runny, it's prescribed for stuffed nose stuff if I'm not mixing things up here.
Yep, looks like it is used for that too. It is used to treat a lot of different things but most of it is currently under trials. Fingers crossed they pass
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Sometimes I buy a jar of those not because I want to supplement my aminos, just because plain water gets fucking boring.
Sometimes followed by the most cursed unit....grams per pound....
Is that actually a unit that I have just never heard of or am I being dumb and not getting sarcasm? I really hope thats a fake unit
i could see it in a dosage situation. like grams of steroids per pound of user. sure, it's goofy to mix metric and imperial, but that's just what those two things are commonly measured with in America. time spent doing unit conversations is time spent not lifting.
Time spent doing unit conversions is time spent not lifting
I’m not sure how to feel about that part. But I can’t say you’re wrong. I try to stay away from anh US customary units. As most would agree, they kinda suck in comparison to SI
that's fair, but all the equipment and scales in their gym will be labeled in pounds.
Yeah exactly it's often used as grams of protein per pound of bodyweight for recommending protein intake.
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Dad was a gym rat, and it is absolutely a real thing.
I've only seen g/kg which is less cursed. This is about the amount of protein you should eat relative to your body mass. But since this is a recommendation for daily intake, I would love to see gymbros use the SI version of g/kg/day, namely 1/s.
As a european, I love to hate on the imperial system. But expressing that ratio in units that you actually use when measuring the thing makes sense.
It's not like you're actually doing fancy maths with it, just cross-multiplication.
If you don't conveniently know your body weight in kg, you might as well remember the ratio in relation to lbs.
Its a pretty common unit when it comes to discussing dietary protein around bodybuilding and fitness because 1g per lb is a super easy conversion for people to remember. Its kind of the golden number because even for people not getting the best sources of protein 1g per lb almost guarantees anyone other than edge cases and steroid users are getting more than enough to support optimum growth and recovery.
My favorite stupid unit of measurement is "A gram of protein per cm of height" for protein intake for very overweight people who have no idea what their lean body mass is or should be.
It sounds ridiculous but for 90% of people it puts you within 10% of correct and usually errs on the high side.
Doesnt really sound cursed? Seems like a usefull unit. With this logic mols are also cursed(tbf they are) but its easier to explain to people so...
I've once overheard a conversation in the train where someone said "but cholesterol is good, right?" completely unironically. It got a good chuckle from me and several other people in the train.
I eventually learned he was becoming a PE teacher who made diet plans for schools. That was less funny.
High cholesterol is bad, but you need a small amount of cholesterol to live.
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Perhaps surprisingly, dietary cholesterol has less an effect on blood cholesterol than a handful of other things. Saturated fat intake/balance in diet correlates more strongly, and vitamin D levels negatively correlates (vitamin D deficiency positively correlates).
Dietary cholesterol is used for a lot of key things such as hormone production, so some people might actually want to increase their cholesterol intake (super active lifestyle people like endurance athletes - can help combat RED-S aka Female Athlete Triad), but the elephant in the room for bad lipid profiles is saturated fats, refined sugars, and sedentary lifestyle
Also, cholesterol is one of the main ingredients our cell membranes are made of.
Dietary cholesterol has little to no effect on blood cholesterol, so indeed cholesterol is good or at least not bad
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