Protein.

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I keep thinking about how to get more protein in.  So... I went looking, again.  For general and alternate ideas.  Even if, possibly, adding some carbs?  But... is there a way without adding carbs?  That is the... holy grail of protein, for a carnivore, or even a keto dieter to some lessor degree.  So... a few vids for you.

These first two?  Possibilities.  If some just... no.  You'll... know which are a no.  Carnivore isn't just a diet, food plan, or what is suggested for food.  It is... a way of life.  It is the order God set for men.  Who is where in the pecking order, and why things work certain ways.  It's... a holy writ, as far as I understand things.  Perhaps not codified, but in those days, it wasn't necessary to suggest it.  I think even God had more faith in man's common and uncommon sense than... perhaps He should have.

He really didn't think He should have to tell men to eat meat.  Then again, Cain?  Right.  Right.  I think that should have let God know how things were going.  But, by that time, it seems He had mostly already... backed away.  After the Garden incident, of '0X, the gig was mostly over.  Mostly.  He still chose, helped, and allowed men to hang themselves.  Even came back, in the flesh, for to pay our price.  Still, it's... up to us, now.  But, yes, meat... to me... is a... part of the divine path.

Ah, but the vids.  Some things I did like?  More cheese, if I can find good real rennet cheese.  Cottage cheese, getting back to kefir, and adding some yogurt or that other greek yogurt style of food.  I fell off the kefir thing.  I'll have to restart, reset, and get it going again.  But can do yogurt, greek yogurt, or that other for now.  And a few others.

There was another vid.  But that guy is monetizing everything?  Or is being shut down, by parts, on y.t.?  So, I can't do that one.  But, I can give the general gist.

The top three are red meats (beef and lamb), fish (sardines, mackerel, and salmon in very particular, due to both the protein, fat, and omega 3s), and the top of the list was...  But first, some things as to which and why about protein sources.

Vegetarian, vegetal, and protein powders all share the same problem.  The bioavailability of those protein sources is only 17%.  So, if I get protein whey, collagen as well, and others?  Or soy/tofu, etc?  They only provide 17% by mass to protein.  What is actually worse?  The remaining protein is turned into glucose.  Not good.  So, yes, your protein powder IS a candy bar.

With chicken, pork, and turkey?  As with other animal meats, the conversion is 30%.  Not great, but almost as good as it gets.  The problem with these meats?  Finding definitively good quality.  Most of it is "farmed".  Raised in overcrowded, bad situations, and fed up to weight without regard to the health of the animal.  Or expensive.  Though, these days, just as likely expensive even if labeled "organic", free range, or else.

Now, the top three.  Red meat, meaning lamb and beef.  With a 30% protein gain, that's... pretty good.  The next is three specific fish, that being sardines, mackerel, and salmon.  These provide 30% protein by weight, too.  But are better in that they also provide omega 3 fatty acids.  Gotten almost nowhere else in that quantity.  And the top?  Which is news to me, as to the reason?  Eggs!  

The only, if eaten whole, protein source that offers 48% of it's protein as bioavailable!  Nice.  Still, there isn't all that much protein, per egg.  So you... have to eat many.  But... you can get your fats in there too.  And so much else.  Eggs truly seem to be the wonder food, for protein.

Back in the day, in spite of not being a body builder, aiming at strength, sparing size as possible, I still was... in the neighborhood.  So heard of various things from the body building community.  Not really learning anything from my muscle gal, of the time, as... that's... not we got mushy, for my part.  What I did hear was that, if you didn't have the money for the powder, eating twenty to forty (or some huge similar number, in that amount) was a cheap protein product.

The only reason not to do it long term was that it got boring, and was so filling.  But, for short term, a year or two as guys were making their way into competition, eggs were the poor man's in.  I had forgotten that.  Though, too, I never realized this was why.  But that makes sense.

So... how many eggs would it take to get to 150 grams, or 200 grams respectively, of protein a day (not including the limits to bioavailability)?  Hmm, one second...  Let me see, 150/6.5=25, or 200/6.5=~31.  Ugh.  See, that would be a problem.

Even ten eggs a day would be tight.  Getting three dozen a week is... pushing it.  But, lets say I went with three dozen, so... 36/7=~5.1 a day... so five eggs a day, or so.  Which would be 32 grams of proteins a day?  Well... there are... limits.  Yes, getting even 150 grams of protein a day is... monstrous.  That's a LOT of food, powder, and else, no matter how you do it.  So... two hundred to two hundred thirty would be a minor industry just to get it bought, cooked, and eaten.  I wouldn't be able to do much else.  Bleh.

I... keep... looking for some way through, some better way through.  It might just not be possible.  Wow.  Ugh.  I'm calling that myth, for extended functionality.  It just isn't possible.  If you are a gymrat muscle head tard, go for it.  I... am not going that way, can't go that way.  I can try to get more food, more protein, more fat, and cut carbs.  But that's... the recommended?  It isn't possible for me.  Later.