insights - take or leave
Yeah, I will not push vegan agenda, though I felt compelled to clarify certain points, which I have experience with. You do what you can and want :)
To all fairness Lentil + rice (and many other combo's) also add up to complete protein and many Indian people have thrived on such combo's for centuries. Not to mention one doesn't really need to get all amnio- all together at particular moment, since the liver and the rest of the cells store them and protein is synthesized from stored amino-acids - not form the amino-acids that your digestive system digests from protein at that particular moment.
It is not a question of being elderly or not. I am pretty young, but just tolerate animal protein - it is fatiguing and irritating to my system. As an example - the youngest - infants and toddlers usually show sensitivity toward (non-mother) animal protein through allergies, eczema, constipation, colics, mucus-y excretions etc, but the pediatricians are not trained to recognize these come from animal food (and or other toxicities). Animal food contain besides the toxicities animal hormones (adrenaline, N-Adrenaline, cortisol, growth hormone - natural and more often synthetic, test., estrogens more than test., prolactine, etc.) which come to interfere with your own hormones.
I will leave it at that. I was just pondering on some of your previous msgs on mood, hormones etc and felt a duty to give some insights. Take them or leave them - it is your choice.