I love steak and eggs. Yogurt, cheese, bacon, and salmon too. But I never knew that my love of protein was political ... until now!
The article ponders why everyone is interested in protein right now:
'I don't have a good sense on what's driving that right now, other than if it's just the usual manosphere — or manomania, here in the United States,' says Pieter Cohen, an internist at Cambridge Health Alliance and associate professor at Harvard Medical School who leads the center's Supplement Research Program. 'Everyone's letting their testosterone out these days.' One thing he's noticed: More men than women arrive at his office 'interested in protein.'
Wait, you're telling me that diet fads are a trend, and that men in particular might be interested in gaining muscle after learning how global testosterone levels have dropped significantly over the last 50 years??
But Vanity Fair says the real blame falls on MAGA.
It's not only men who care about protein, but a mosey through recent history suggests a strong correlation between the rise of the likes of the men's rights movement and our national lust for protein — which is how we got to the quagmire of contradiction wherein a 'manosphere' helmed by Donald Trump (he of the diet dubbed by his own health secretary, the admittedly often incorrect Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to be 'really, like, bad') has such a vocal contingent of intense protein-maxing 'health' obsessives.
The intertwinement of masculinity and red meat (and its attendant health properties, namely protein) is strong and deep-seated.
You get the point.
Men = Bad
Meat = Bad
Orange Man Bad = Very Bad
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