I’ve heard from lifters that not complete protein sources (bread,vegan protein powder, fruit) anything without the amino acids, don’t really get used by your body for muscle growth due to the lack of amino’s. So if I eat a sandwhich with a high protein bread and eggs, will my body absorb the protein better because the eggs have those aminos?
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There’s no such thing as proteins without amino acids. All proteins (in humans and most other known life) are made of some combination of 20 different amino acids.
You can synthesize some of those amino acids yourself, but there are 9 that you can’t, and those have to come from proteins that you eat. Foods are said to contain *complete* protein when they happen to include all of those 9.
As long as you are eating in such a way that none of those 9 essential amino acids end up being a bottleneck, you’re probably fine.
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