My impression is that it might be easy to miss some amino acid types if you’re not careful (e.g. tryptophan is almost exclusively found in meat/dairy and is the only way your body can make serotonin
I am pretty confident that this particular impression is incorrect. The essential amino-acid profiles of the protein of most plant sources is very close to human requirements. See in particular Figure 14 of the WHO report on amino-acid requirements. (https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43411/WHO_TRS_935_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y, page 165 of the PDF). It compares the human percentage amino-acid requirements with the content of various animal and vegetal sources. They are incredibly similar, and also the percentage of tryptophan required is larger than the human pattern in all plant sources (except perhaps maize if we scale down the bars).
That said, thank you for the post! I am now 70% confident that I am in fact stressed; but I don’t see a way to stop it, the work just keeps on piling up.
I am pretty confident that this particular impression is incorrect. The essential amino-acid profiles of the protein of most plant sources is very close to human requirements. See in particular Figure 14 of the WHO report on amino-acid requirements. (https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43411/WHO_TRS_935_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y, page 165 of the PDF). It compares the human percentage amino-acid requirements with the content of various animal and vegetal sources. They are incredibly similar, and also the percentage of tryptophan required is larger than the human pattern in all plant sources (except perhaps maize if we scale down the bars).
That said, thank you for the post! I am now 70% confident that I am in fact stressed; but I don’t see a way to stop it, the work just keeps on piling up.