Lualatex unicode input of greek symbols

Question

I am looking to input greek characters directly in the tex file. I could do this with pdflatex, but I cannot find a way to do this in lualatex. I really don't want to type \greek{greeksymbol} for every greek symbol that I have to insert, since some of my references will also have greek symbols, and I will have to go and change all of those as well.

MWE of my current solution

\documentclass[12pt]{report} 

\usepackage{fontspec} % lualatex only
\usepackage{unicode-math} % lualatex only
\usepackage[american,greek]{babel}
\setmathfont{Latin Modern Math}
\newcommand{\greek}[1]{$\mathbfup{#1}$}

\begin{document}

Protein secondary structure includes \greek{α}-helices and \greek{β}-sheets.

\end{document}

which outputs this

where as in an ideal world all I would have to type is

% whatever packages are needed to accomplish this
\begin{document}

Protein secondary structure includes α-helices and β-sheets.

\end{document}

and it would display the same thing. Does anyone have any solutions? It needs to be within lualatex because I am using OTF fonts.

EDIT:

So here is a MWE where I can type it.

\documentclass[12pt]{report} 

\usepackage{fontspec} % lualatex only
\usepackage{unicode-math} % lualatex only
\usepackage[american,greek]{babel}
\babelprovide[import=el, onchar=ids fonts]{greek}
\babelfont{rm}[Language=Default]{Latin Modern Math}

\begin{document}

Protein secondary structure includes α-helices and β-sheets.

\end{document}

Awesome. Is there a way for it to be automatically boldended? I would like to have all greek symbols in bold.

Answer 1

A simple solution

\documentclass[12pt]{report} 
\usepackage{fontsetup}
\begin{document}
    Protein secondary structure includes α-helices and β-sheets. \par
    Protein secondary structure includes \textbf{α}-helices and \textbf{β}-sheets.
\end{document}