Andrew Huberman· PhD
The problem in plant food is it's low in lysine for grains and it's low in methionine for beans. They're actually called limiting amino acids because they would run out for if you only ate grains or you only ate beans.
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The problem in plant food is it's low in lysine for grains and it's low in methionine for beans. They're actually called limiting amino acids because they would run out for if you only ate grains or you only ate beans.
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And that's where the complimentary thing came in because grains although they're low in lysine are a little high in methionine and beans which are low in methionine are a little high in lysine. If you ate them together it would be closer to their proportions in meat.
if you eat a well balanced meal you typically have different plant-based proteins in your meal that often compensate low lysine or low methionine for example one protein has high lysine and the other one has relatively uh High methionine so they compensate