it would be nice to see all the ingredients and see which ones have poor/toxic additives
Yeah I need a filter down to the individual ingredients.
Show HN: A website for comparing protein powder prices
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#72What tech stack did you use?
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#73I've read that some forms of protein (such as from animal sources) are more "bio available" than others, and thus result in a higher net result of protein absorbed. I see I can filter out specific sources, but it'd be cool if as part of the normalization, that it took this into account in some way.
Protein powder is 90% marketing that is a distortion of reality and research for marketing purposes. None of this matters unless you are only getting your protein from one source.
If you are eating north of .5-7 grams per lb of bodyweight throughout the day you are not going to be short of amino acids when needed even if lifting really hard.
I like a protein shake because it taste good and different but there is absolutely nothing special about any of this. Protein powder has the absolute most bullshit around the product of anything I can even think of.
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#74How do you check how much protein your body actually needs? I bet many folks would have the same results with 2x less protein intake.
There are signs that you can notice when you eat too little protein. An obvious sign is the reduction in muscular mass, e.g. if your arms and thighs become thinner. A less well known sign is the swelling of both feet (bilateral feet edema), when you might begin to feel that your shoes are too small, which is caused by a too low albumin concentration in the blood. (However there are also other possible causes for feet…
Interesting theory, but how do you explain that most prisoners don't end up as stick figures with swollen feet?
Because I suspect they don't have a diet with protein powder.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are signs that you can notice when you eat too little protein. An obvious sign is the reduction in muscular mass, e.g. if your arms and thighs become thinner. A less well known sign is the swelling of both feet (bilateral feet edema), when you might begin to feel that your shoes are too small, which is caused by a too low albumin concentration in the blood. (However there are also other possible causes for feet…
Interesting theory, but how do you explain that most prisoners don't end up as stick figures with swollen feet? Because I suspect they don't have a diet with protein powder.
Bread can easily provide enough proteins at a very low cost, if its quantity is large enough (e.g. 500 g of wheat flour per day) and if it is supplemented with a small quantity of another food that can provide enough lysine, e.g. beans or meat or dairy.
The problem of getting proteins mostly from bread is that you also need to do enough physical activity to avoid gaining weight. This is a serious difficulty for a computer programmer, but it is unlikely to be a problem for a prisoner or for a manual worker.
It is likely that at least in a country like USA, the ratios for prisoners have an adequate protein content, even if they may be not tasty.
In countries where prisoners were treated less well, for instance in the Eastern Europe countries occupied by the Russians after WWII, where the political adversaries of the communists have been either killed or jailed, the prisoners who have survived their prison term were really stick figures at the return from prison, so your images about prisoners must be biased by the US prisons.
In the Hollywood movies, many prisoners look like boxing competitors, but in many countries you will never see such well-fed prisoners.