I've heard that you cannot absorb (for lack of a better word) more that 30g of protein/day (adjust for your body weight).

Is that remotly true?

Firehouse in the USA: "right leaning straight white guys that watch FOX news" is over represented. We work 24 hour shifts and thus cook two meals a day at the station. Inevitably that means I get to experience whatever dumb-ass dietary advice the manosphere/RFK Jr. is pushing: keto, carnivore, MORE PROTEIN, etc.

They get hilariously defensive when I tell them "I don't do fad diets".

as soon as you hear (X) cures cancer you know shes deep into pseudoscience, its one of the "gateway" into pseudoscience. those cleanses are likely messing up her gut microbiome causing "diarrhea, GI problems". when i took antibiotics once he caused watery runs, and it never was the same.

i wonder if shes getting antibiotics from a shady ass doctor, i know if you take too much you will have chronic GI problems. there something called chronic lyme, where its usually midwestern woman believes its chronic so they go to a MD that is "specialized in Lyme" to be prescribed on antbiotics for months on end, and to convince themselves they have it, they take another shady test for lyme.

Eat ourside? First response is what are you a dog?

Second response is: so is eating outside a way to say going out to eat in British English?

I worked at a vitamin store chain owned by the parents of a college friend of mine (who is now worth $34 million lol - that chain has turned into a miniature Whole Foods) for a few months. I remember one customer came in because she was going through a divorce, and the cashier said "oh, you need St. John's Wort for that". Nobody there thought this was unusual in any way.

Also knew a guy in college who claimed to be a Breathitarian. We caught him at the Ponderosa steak house in the next town over one night.

I read a thing recently that argued that "purity" is one of the most distinctive thematic motifs in fascistic thinking, and examined how that is a means by which people can slide into right wing ideologies from an initially left wing position.

It was striking because it made it clock for me why there seems to be a "crunchy eco-leftist turns right wing" pipeline. To attempt to summarise some of the article and my own thoughts following it: A purity oriented framework of health situates "toxins" and the like as the Big Bad Other. Many of us are aware of how dangerous the notion of a Big Bad Other is if we're thinking about people, but it can creep up with us in contexts like this because it doesn't seem harmful initially. However, by thinking about health in this way, we train ourselves to think in terms of the Big Bad Other, and condition ourselves towards thinking about things in a black and white manner.

Someone has to repackage the low carb diet in a new way every decade.

I loved it when Gwyneth Paltrow said she drinks alkaline water for the health benefits... with a slice of lemon.

Whilst this is true; your body does have some pretty neat tricks to maintain homeostasis; it can shift the energy budget around quite a bit to where it is needed.

Your body will down regulate some systems to try to keep your total energy balance within what is "normal" for each person.

Digestion uses quite a bit of energy; this is why sometimes you feel sleepy after eating; your brain has been down regulated to enable digestion.

Another common example is when runners get into "the zone"; this is your brain prioritising the required processes and reducing the energy of other parts, putting you into a semi trance....this is so your body can maintain an energy balance.

It is also why we sometimes feel sick if exercising hard and then eat quickly afterward; your gut is not ready for that job.

High energy process that can be "switched off" or at least significantly reduced:

• Brain processes (up to 25% of your energy budget)
• Immune system (~20% when fighting infection)
• Digestion (dependent on food 3[sugar] - 30[protein]% of food energy)

Just because you have done some exercise; doesn't mean you have used more total energy that day....it seems counter intuitive; but your body likely shifted energy from one thing (immune system, brain) to muscles, for the time your were exercising.

In saying that exercising is so good for other things; physical and mental health are enhanced by exercise, there are so many good things about exercise, just don't rely on it for weight loss.

As the old saying goes "you can't out run a bad diet"; you are correct, if over the long term you eat fewer calories than your body requires, you will see an effect. But your body is a tricksy beast, it will do all it can to prevent this; it is why dieting is so hard in an age of abundant food.