The ancestral high-protein diet: drinking the tears of your fallen enemies.
What is the nutritional value of a lamentation?
Enough to get swole while pushing a giant wooden wheel, that’s for sure
Did anyone look this up?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19568753/
They do indeed have more protein. The conclusion that it’s for them to fall slower seems to be just a hypothesis
You rock.
I can imagine it to be the opposite.
Maybe irritant tears have less protein to not clog your vision when in a fight or threatened?
The Guardian, not a journal:
Not all tears are alike. The human body produces three kinds: basal, which form an oily layer over the eyeball to keep it from drying out; reflex, which appear when an eye is bothered by cutting onions or a speck of dust and needs to flush the irritant away; and psychogenic, which are shed for emotional reasons. Notably, emotional tears have a higher protein level than basal and reflex tears, which makes them thicker and causes them to fall more slowly.
This thickness intrigues me. The longer it takes for these tears to travel down a cheek, the greater the chance that they will be noticed by another person and their message perceived. Tears are a social signal.
You also rock.
Does that mean they are healthier too? Gotta make sure I get my daily protein
Getting swole on the tears of my enemies.
It’s so my 2 foot long snaked tongue can slither over to your face and lap up those nutrients
Sounds tempting
Maybe Cartman was right and you can feed from the tears of others
I didn’t watch a lot of south park but I’m pretty sure cartman was right about a lot of things - just ahead of his time
*your body is litterally built to sap others energy and goodwill like a parasite
is this true? not the higher protein count part, but the rest
The higher protein part is true, and also humans are the only animal to shed emotional tears. It makes sense that it’s a signalling mechanism - we know that evolution has given social animals other visual indicators.
