Sad Kitty

Autist - Farmer - Scientist - Advocate
She/Her/They/Them

[Tira Cole @tiras_corner]

WHAT ABOUT PLANT-BASED PROTEINS?

Your body breaks down protein in foods into amino acids, which it then uses to make proteins for building muscles, skin, organs, connective tissues, bones, hair and nails. Protein is also needed for healthy immune function and to make enzymes and hormones.

Here, I will be focusing on the muscles.

Muscles are crucial for posture, movement, breathing, and protecting joints and organs.

To maintain, repair and build muscle tissue, the body will use available amino acids from the protein in your last meal to make the proteins it requires. This process is called muscle protein synthesis and requires two conditions to be met:

-All essential amino acids present
-Enough of the amino acid leucine

Research shows that an increase of around 2.6g of leucine in the bloodstream triggers muscle protein synthesis in 20-year-old healthy males. This amount is equivalent to that found in about 110g or 3.9oz of cooked lean beef.

As we age, we need more leucine at a meal – perhaps up to 4.4g (190g or 6.7oz cooked lean beef) to trigger this same process.

So, what about plant-based protein?

Remember, you need all essential amino acids present, plus adequate leucine.

Bean-based sources of protein do not contain all essential amino acids in sufficient quantities. Experts say you need to pair them with rice, for example, to ensure all amino acids are present. So how much would you need in one meal to meet your leucine threshold? About 2–3 cups (330–490g or 11.6–17.3oz) of cooked chickpeas plus 2–3 cups (390–585g or 13.8–20.6oz) of cooked rice! Is it possible to eat that much in one sitting?

Quinoa has all the essential amino acids, but to meet the 2.6–4.4g leucine threshold, you would need to eat 5.5–9.25 cups of cooked quinoa in one meal!

You can see that in order to eat enough plant-based protein per meal to meet the leucine threshold and ensure all essential amino acids are present, you need to be eating an awful lot!

Remember, I am talking about muscle maintenance and repair here, which is an essential bodily function.

I’ll be going more in-depth on the topic of protein in posts to come, including bioavailability.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Here is my problem with the Laws against Drag Shows that DeSantis and Lee put forth in Florida and Tennessee.

Why are they targeting the LGBTQ+ communities ?

- It is LEGAL to bring your child into R-rated movies which show nudity and actual sex.

- It is LEGAL to bring your kids to topless beaches in Florida and to Spring break where drunk college kids do far worse than drag queens, on PUBLIC property.

But.

- It is ILLEGAL to bring your child into a non-nude show where drag queens may or may not joke around about sex or dance in a sexual manner, clothed.

These states are all about “parental rights” when it comes to education and religion but when they can use their power to attack minorities those rights fly out the window.

[Steven Goffman @SteveGoffman]

At a Republican political rally in Davenport, Iowa today someone gave @GovRonDeSantis and @IAGovernor Kim Reynolds a handmade “snowflake” with the word "Fascist" secretly embedded in it.

[Ben Meiselas @meiselasb]

Colin Kaepernick directing traffic in Oregon after a blizzard hit the city ⛄️

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Elon Musk sitting next to Rupert Murdoch at the Super Bowl. Rightwing billionaire media moguls gotta stick together, I guess. But remember that image next time you hear Musk pretending to be anti-elitist or anti-Establishment or anti the media, or some kind of populist. Lol.

[Sad Kitty @HumansMakeMeSad]

@Josh__Hammock https://t.co/GKKZ5pfUS9

[Hugo Lowell @hugolowell]

New: Top former FBI counterintel official Charles McGonigal charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and violating sanctions by taking payments from Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to investigate a rival oligarch shortly after he left the agency, per new indictment.

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

A guilty secret of mine is: my autistic propensity for being honest and literal means that I struggle to say “I love you” in the casual way others say it to people they have affection for but don’t necessarily love. It’s just… “I love you” feels like a sacred declaration to me.

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

It's a convenient shorthand to say we're 'fighting climate change' but it rather misses the point

We're not fighting climate change, we're fighting those that are delaying us from transitioning to systems and technologies that don't cause climate change

[Sad Kitty @HumansMakeMeSad]

Greetings @Steam
Several of us acquired a #SteamDeck recently. We download the same games frequently. It occurred to me it would be an efficiency for users, #climate conscious, and a savings to you, if there was an option to share updates and game files by wifi or usb-c

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Off topic but Andrew Taint (you can’t tell me his name is spelled any differently) being arrested because he shared a video of a pizza box that gave away his location on social media when he was arguing with Greta Thunberg is the absolute best way 2022 could end

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at [email protected]

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

As a scientist I'm proud of just how much incredibly rich, detailed and varied evidence we have of the unravelling of life on Earth

And utterly dumfounded by how little anyone seems to care

[Sad Kitty @HumansMakeMeSad]

@MMMPeg59 @inkookang @lpolgreen That is how I felt! Was surprised to see it wasn't. How you can watch the show and not see how deeply Trevor Noah cares about the people and subjects he's covering is beyond me.

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

Here’s a general rule of thumb for assessing inclusivity. True inclusivity is flexible. It adapts to the individual. It allows for many ways of being and learning. 1/

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

Is it inclusive to insist that school attendance should be at 100%? Is it inclusive to say that all children are better off at school, always? No, and here’s why not. 1/

[𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚎𝚛𝚗🌱 @AutBrainDump]

#AskingAutistics Have your sensory issues got worse with age? There are a lot of things I can't tolerate at age 40 that I coped with in my 20s. Is this a natural part of ageing as an #autistic person?

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

Be warned that when asking an autistic person how they are, there is a strong risk they might actually tell you. Some of us have a reflex response of (or along the lines of) “good, thank you, you?” that we release however we feel, but some of us are programmed to answer honestly.

[Robert Lufkin MD @robertlufkinmd]

Grain has been a part of human recorded history beginning ~12,000 yrs ago.

For the remainder of the 180,000 years of human history prior to that,
grains were not a significant part of the human diet.

For a number of reasons, I exclude them from my diet.

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

And like, they can't do much about the crowds, but they could absolutely not have such blaring strip lighting, turn down the music, not have such big wide white ceilings that reflect all the light back at you, and they could make the aisles wider to stop the squishing.