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That's not a biochemist, memorizing the amino acids is literally biochem 1 on college. Most people with a biology undergrad take that.
Being a biochemist is more about understanding the whole system of how proteins interact, and not really about memorization of any specific protein.
I had to take a 300 level biochem class and 2 semesters of O Chem and we didn’t have to memorize the structures of all the amino acids. Like we had to know glycine and we had to know about the different amino acids like how proline has a rigid structure but we were never expected to be able to draw an amino acid from memory
This may be a university to university and course to course difference too. My intro 3000 level biochem class didn't have us memorize structures but my 5000 structural biochem class did and certain nucleic acid structures and stuff. Can't remember shit now but I definitely had to memorize them at some point in undergrad.
Maybe our universities handled numbers differently but 300 level classes we’re never considered intro level classes but were instead classes usually taken in your 3rd year of school with a heavy amount of pre requisites and a 500 level would be a graduate class
Sorry, just meant that for biochemistry it was the "lowest level" you could take. It was usually a 3rd or 4th year class. Anything 4000+ level for us was a graduate school level class. I was just saying I had the same experience as you to some degree but it's possible different schools/professors have different expectations.
That makes more sense I think that 300 level was our lowest biochemistry class as well
Well, biochemists do know the structure of amino acids, so it's technically correct. The fact they know more makes this situation even more probable.
You're the clown.
The sad part is that there isn't any real answer, like a lot of fundamental things in science we don't really know how it works and won't for decades. My personal theory is more along the lines of the whole tearing muscles concept is crap and exercise is basically just a signal for your body to make more muscle and doesn't directly cause anything.
So...basically science don't know shit but can't stop speaking like it does.
No, you're thinking of religion.
Depends on the meaning of the invokation of the word "science."
To iterate that, in some such, you are correct. In others, six one way half a dozen the other.
True, but it sounds so hostile that I almost agree with the downvotes.
Most people can't handle the Clown.
I handle the Clown like a priest. Be careful of what the priest says. It may completely disfigure that of the not-fully-developed such. Here's the real kicker. None of you can be unless you accept that as a fact.
To iterate further, in a true invokation, science is an art of language. Not far from "religion" to say so. In one invokation, it is the picture we can reproduce based on the image it depicts into understanding of reality.
To make the other, I'd like to reference Joao Magueijo's Faster than the Speed of Light book. This book demonstrates how we can both be right and wrong in an alternative perspective of what is real.
This, like, "The Big Bang" theory is some kind of similar notion to the Speed of Light the way he is sort of correcting but sort of saying that's right in the same painting he is writing.
Of course its right. Of course its wrong. I'll do that in a simple few paragraphs.
What happens when a black hole is large enough to make the wavelength it generates out large enough to be matter?
That's a big bang. It'll probably eat more matter than is in our current visible 'verse to capitualate such a scenario but the visibility of our 'verse doesn't make the end of it. There are more "Big Bangs" than there are visible stars in any and every method we may percieve such. In fact, I can articulate that there are infinate such "Big Bangs".
Prove me wrong.
Gym bro is just trying to distract the giant standing off camera to the right
Gym myths are my favorite. The best past is the extreme prevalence of survivorship bias, with most of the bad advice coming from people who have succeeded but are themselves mistaken about why.
i.e. Massive bro is adamant that everyone should be taking BCAAs, beginners are inclined to believe it because it looks like he knows what he’s talking about.
I think the fitness industry makes most of its money this way tbh
My wife is one of these consumers. She shes all these influencers pushing working out products and she uses everything she can get her hands on. Then she wonders why when she trains for, and runs a full marathon, she doesnt lose any weight. Well you take thousands of calories of supplements... just run
Yeah you can't run off a bad diet, you do need to make sure you are getting enough protein aligned with your goals, and some fats, but outside of that, you just need to eat less than you burn.
Running might help increase the deficit a bit, or give you some extra food, but you're probably going to struggle to cover thousands of additional calories.
I've once overheard a conversation in the train where someone said "but cholesterol is good, right? Or are those proteins?" completely unironically. It got a good chuckle from me and several other people in the train.
I eventually learned he was becoming a PE teacher who made diet plans for schools. That was less funny.
Perhaps surprisingly, dietary cholesterol has less an effect on blood cholesterol than a handful of other things. Saturated fat intake/balance in diet correlates more strongly, and vitamin D levels negatively correlates (vitamin D deficiency positively correlates).
Dietary cholesterol is used for a lot of key things such as hormone production, so some people might actually want to increase their cholesterol intake (super active lifestyle people like endurance athletes - can help combat RED-S aka Female Athlete Triad), but the elephant in the room for bad lipid profiles is saturated fats, refined sugars, and sedentary lifestyle
Also, cholesterol is one of the main ingredients our cell membranes are made of.
This pic reminds me of a ten-year-old post:
Used to take prework out as a teenager. About a year ago I'd be taking 2 scoops of the strongest shit I could get my hands on. I'd have to spend almost 10 minutes between sets sometimes to keep from puking. Then one day I just thought, what the fuck am I doing. I started lifting to get healthier. And here I am taking in God knows what from a container with a psycho clown that's chewed half his own face off. What the fuck happened. I started with a half a scoop of c4 and now here I am. Who the fuck is this for, am I supposed to be that methhead clown, is that supposed to be appealing? Since then completely gave up prework outs and never looked back
The best way to learn something new but maybe not useful or true is to say an obviously wrong fact on an internet forum with a total confidence.
People will step over themselves to explain it like it is a supermarket opening on a Black Friday morning
It’s a never patched CVE-1980-1 in an internet nerd mind that causes a dump of the victim’s volatile memory
I know the feeling. I've also been given the stern "don't say anything" look. But joke's on them, because I neither know enough to debunk the most random claims on the spot, nor know how to synthesize a semester worth of college in five sentences and be understood perfectly every time.
As I biologist I understand:
-*random bio subject in conversations.
-oh but you're biologist right? Is that true?
-well, I know just enough to be able to tell you the level of my ignorance on the subject. Unless it's linked to my master thesis (which is probably obsolete by now) no need to ask me.