Coolest thing about being an omnivore is you can also eat all the tasty vegan meals, no strings attached

Thank you! Most likely the human would not inherit gorilla powers, although it’s certainly worth investigating

For those unaware, emerging research on fecal transplants is crazy! Very worth looking into. It seems like to some extent, characteristics can be transferred from one person to another. Like giving a transplant from a fit person to an untrained overweight person can spontaneously result in weight loss and increased muscle mass, for a period of time. The world is truly an incredible and mysterious place!

It could be handy but I think I’d rather not have to eat forty pounds of leaves every day! +termites sometimes

Hey,

So the confusion here comes from the application of the term ‘essential’

The reason humans differentiate between essential/not is because it is “essential” for us to ingest those amino acids directly in our diet, because we cannot synthesize them ourselves.

Gorillas do not have a separate “essential” category because they can synthesize everything they need. This is not to suggest they do not physiologically “need” the ones we deem as essential, simply that they can make them.

As an aside, the special thing you’re thinking of is just their gut bacteria. There’s a ton of specific biological information I left out as the comment was already getting too long, and I didn’t really feel like the exact mechanism of action there was critical

I was looking into that recently, specifically gorillas, just because it’s such a common sentiment that humans have to work so hard and eat so particularly to build muscle but gorillas are naturally jacked.

It turns out they have a lot going for them in that regard

So first of all they low key do actually strength train. They use their strength to break and process vegetation. These dudes will straight up rip a tree apart with their bare hands. It’s pretty crazy. It’s also how they spend most of their time.

Like they literally wake up at 6am, do a crazy workout, eat a ton, take a nap, then do another crazy workout, eat another ton, then go to bed. Every day. It’s basically the same routine Arnold ran when training for the olympia.

The other thing that comes up is how they mostly eat plants but humans need tons of protein. This part is the most fascinating to me.

So humans have a concept of “essential amino acids (essential proteins)”. There’s like over 500 aminos in general, and for the most part if we need one for any particular bodily function, our bodies can just make them out of whatever. The exceptions are these 9 particular aminos which we require, but cannot create ourselves, so we have to get them directly from our diets.

Humans also have relatively pathetic digestive systems. There’s an entire large category of plant matter we consume that we simply cannot process, and it passes through us. We call this material “fiber”, and it’s still very important for us to eat, but nonetheless it is simply not broken down into energy or other building blocks.

Gorillas do not suffer from either of these limitations. Their bodies can produce all necessary amino acids, and they can break down fiber.

So with all this, when you look at their diet as a whole, (which is about 40lbs per day of plants, and keeping in mind the plants are simply more nutritive to them biologically, and their neutrality towards the specific amino profile of their food), when you crunch the math, they actually end up eating slightly higher than the daily protein value recommended for high level human bodybuilders.

That coincidence totally blew my mind. Like we’re so closely related and require the same basic conditions for muscle growth, but achieve it in such parallel yet unrelated ways. Totally awe inspiring

How many calories does it have? Banana, peanut (or cashew or almond etc.) butter and chocolate are all high cal foods. So mixing them is unlikely to be low cal

As for your second point, I agree 100%. There’s an entire discussion to be had about the nuance. I think the most important thing is not assuming that low cal foods are healthy in any way, and also not assuming that healthy foods would be low cal. Basically just two separate concepts, sometimes they overlap sometimes not

I find your line of reasoning to be totally inscrutable! It’s quite easy to learn how to cook with it if you ever want to down the line, but enjoy your meals either way

Then I’m as confused as when we started! Don’t you like your meals to be flavorful?

I guess we just disagree on it being a significant labor then! I don’t really see it differently than seasoning rice or pasta

Now you’re starting to see the magic!

It tastes so good lol! We’re discussing an ingredient that’s shined in countless dishes across many cultures for over a thousand years :p I just fry it and use a heavy hand with my favorite spices and it’s like heaven in a bowl

Wild how different everyone is! Tofu is the most delicious thing to me lol, I have it every day

Actually remember seeing some numbers on this a while ago and I was pretty shocked at how few games the average person buys. Like median ps3 owner bought 7 games over the life of the entire console.

From looking around google quickly it looks like the average for ps4/5 is 6-10 depending on region.

So if someone stays subscribed to the service for the life of the console then Microsoft comes out way ahead compared to just selling games, I would guess

Gotcha, yeah makes sense . Thank you for answering candidly-cooking is one of those things, the more I learn the more I realize how different everybody is

Once a month? May I ask about your methods in the kitchen?

I use my measuring cup nearly every day, sometimes twice a day, primarily for measuring carbs (pasta, quinoa, couscous, oatmeal) but also water and veggies (lentils, beans).

Reading that back - sorry if the question sounds aggro, no shade at all I’m really just curious about how people are running their setup. FWIW I randomly inherited some ancient no-name measuring cups from my late grandmother; they have embossed glass markers that will never wear away. I really love them

Ah I’m sorry to hear that. My parent swung hard into the same propaganda and obviously ended up catching a severe case, multiple times in fact. Survived, but they’re like a totally different person now. Extremely hair triggered and aggressive, easily confused about things that always used to come naturally.

I think it’s literally a case of brain damage from catching the virus so many times. Been pretty awful to watch. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forgive the conspiracists. Sorry again for your loss, hope things are moving in a good direction for you and yours

Around the bottom two rows, look closely between the emoji, little slivers of yellow poking through. Appears to be a bug and not usual presentation

is it just random people say shit and they believe it?

To be fair that’s kind of how any news source works if we get right down to the essence of it

Granted! You are now stuck in an infinite loop where every attempt to provide the necessary context requires more context to be properly understood

Yeah same story for me every nintendo console. I’m like ahhh maybe I’ll skip this one. Then I blink and they’ve put out like a dozen masterpieces and I’m like ahhh they got me again