{"id":826,"date":"2011-12-07T19:58:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T03:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2012-05-01T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T00:02:55","slug":"protein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/07\/protein\/","title":{"rendered":"Protein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A protein rich diet may make us <a href=\"http:\/\/trynerdy.com\/?p=1664\">more alert and help us lose weight<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The reaction of Hypothalamic orexin\/hypocretin neurons to amino acids (especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22099463\">nonessential amino acids<\/a>) appears to be a mechanism for this effect.<\/p>\n<p>Poultry products appear to be one of the better ways to get nonessential amino acids.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to increase the protein in my diet for the past four months (in response to weaker evidence than I&#8217;ve linked to here), and have found that animal sources have been the easiest way to do that (I&#8217;ve mainly increased my egg and meat consumption). I think I&#8217;ve found it slightly easier to avoid gaining weight. I think I&#8217;ve also been more alert, but I don&#8217;t think the increase in alertness coincided too closely with the increase in protein consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A protein rich diet may make us more alert and help us lose weight. The reaction of Hypothalamic orexin\/hypocretin neurons to amino acids (especially nonessential amino acids) appears to be a mechanism for this effect. Poultry products appear to be one of the better ways to get nonessential amino acids. I&#8217;ve been trying to increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-diet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s80O1l-protein","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}