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Wellness Wednesday for May 13, 2026

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Does it make sense to eat lysine made for farm animals in case of poverty? Some of mixes contain only 50% lysine but for fixing aminoacid imblanace high purity (pills) is not needed, and seems to be an improvement made to justify high price.

Are you not eating complete proteins? Even vegans get plenty of lysine from soy.

I don't get what is "complete" protein. I eat too much bread because of cost and general unwillingness to cook. Soy is somewhat difficult to buy here, I also don't want to cook from soy flour and I dislike taste of tofu

If you have the time, I highly recommend learning to cook. You will save money, improve your health, and learn a skill valued by everyone around you (might be culture dependent, YMMV).

A complete protein has all the amino acids your body cannot create itself from base ingredients like the glucose in bread. Prolonged deprivation of complete proteins will weaken your body and mind. The good news is that you can get complete protein meals easily by eating meat, milk, or eggs. Air fryer steaks, drink milk, boil eggs. Very easy to do, tasty, but more expensive.

You can also do this as a vegetarian but it takes more effort and you will need to invest more time learning to cook. Beans need soaking, vegetables need washing and cutting, etc. It can work well but needs some attention to pairing complementary sources of amino acids, like beans and rice.

Some nutrients are not absorbed well in human digestion in pill form. There may be genetic variance and/or gut microbiome issues with taking concentrated vitamin or amino acid pills. You may try to compensate for poor nutrient absorption by overdosing and risk poisoning yourself.

The reliable way to get nutrients is to eat real food cooked yourself so you can be assured of the taste and quality. There is no shortcut here, unless you have a trusted family member prepare food for you.

I was lucky enough to have my mom prepare home cooked meals for me growing up. I didn't understand that I was lucky until I lived alone and ate a lot of empty starch like bread and instant noodles. I permanently ruined my health doing a few years of this until I learned to cook a little bit. I just tried to poorly imitate some of my mom's simpler meals at first, but gradually developed my own style.

If cost is an issue, you should pay attention to weekly supermarket ads which usually have a rotating selection of discounted but fresh meats. You can use plastic freezer bags to buy meat cheaply in bulk and save it for cooking later.

You can also do this as a vegetarian but it takes more effort. Beans need soaking, vegetables need washing and cutting, etc. It can work well but needs some attention to pairing complementary sources of amino acids, like beans and rice.

Soy, dairy, and eggs are complete proteins and require next to no effort to prepare.

He said there was no access to soy nearby. Dairy was expensive? And eggs were insufficient?

You mentioned dairy and eggs in the previous paragraph, so it seems fair to point out.

Oh yeah I did. I noticed after posting he said in a different comment chain that dairy was too expensive but at least the ants avoided it and that the eggs were not enough.

I have to believe this is some kind of troll at this point though, I don't think any real person seriously considers eating only bread and livestock lysine pills as a reasonable and thrifty way to live. But in the remote chance this isn't a troll then it's good we encourage him not to accidentally kill himself from radical nutrition lifehacks.

I guess there was always some guy eating weird things to test them as safe for everyone else, or else human society would not enjoy the unusual and tasty things we have today. Look at this mushroom Trog, it's totally tasty and not poisonous at all! Avoid those green ones though.

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