The idea that the body can only absorb a certain amount of protein (commonly claimed as 30-40g) is largely a myth rooted in oversimplification/overgeneralization. Yes, 40g in one meal is the ballpark where "Muscle Protein Synthesis" (MPS) benefits level off. MPS is the specific biological process of adding new muscle mass, triggered by localized wear/stress of bodybuilding exercises.
But protein beyond that threshold does not go to waste. It can still be used for all the usual things the body uses protein for: tissue repair and maintenance; production of hormones, enzymes, and neurotransmitters; etc.

The human body is very efficient at managing its reserves of protein material. We did not evolve for millions of years just to let hard-won protein surges go to waste.

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early to bed; 3am bedbug kerfluffle; slept in
9:30ish 29g soy protein cocoa
- I can stand plain, but 2.5ml peppermint extract makes it so much more palatable

noon-ish tofu-rito ; maybe 1 more before new batch of tofu
make the last 2 brekaritos
assist laundry pipeline

why is my go-to scratchpad text file in "projects"... ?
- undoubtedly an artifact of filesystem reorganization
- actually a sane category anyway; according to BASB, Projects workspace is intended for active processing

I don't have it in me right now to read "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" (2025, memoir of Palestinian genocide). While we're there, consider Sinclair Lewis's 1935, 400-page "It Can't Happen Here", a dystopian novelization of how fascism could come to the U.S. Lewis is perhaps better known for his 1922 novel "Babbitt". It's easy to get the "Sinclair" crossed with the brain circuit for Upton Sinclair, most famous for "The Jungle", the novelization of deplorable conditions in the meat-packing industry. It doesn't help the confusion that Upton Sinclair had a cooperative-living colony in Englewood NJ ("Helicon Home Colony"), which Sinclair Lewis worked at for a time during his college years.