Friday Favorites: Animal Protein vs. Plant-Based Protein
I discuss a public health case for modernizing the definition of protein quality.
The benefits of caloric restriction may arise from the drop in animal protein intake. See Caloric Restriction vs. Animal Protein Restriction ( ) for more on this.
I also discuss branched-chain amino acids in Are BCAA (Branched-Chain Amino Acids) Healthy? ( ).
Do we need to combine plant proteins, like rice with beans? See The Protein Combining Myth ( ).
How much protein do we need? Check out Do Vegetarians Get Enough Protein? ( ).
What about plant-based meats? Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthy? ( ).
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👏🏻 mas 🫛🫛 🫛menos 🥓🍳🥩
I love this channel!
First! I eat a high protein, plant-based diet with zero animal protein. Still muscular, strong and agile at 63. Plant-based for health and longevity!
Exactly! I am the same at 77, being able to grow vegetables in raised beds using no-till methodology. *Biology trumps chronology*
Good for you, Sir. Please consider posting a video letting us know how you achieve your high protein intake.
I call it flesh protein, people react to it badly then. Plant protein is 1st hand protein and flesh protein is 2nd hand protein
And please somehow Dr Greger take RFK Jr’s job
I don’t think antagonizing and alienating 90% of people does any good.
That would sure get the point across!
@@jeffreyjohnson7359How does using a different term for something antagonize and alienate people? The term is objectively accurate.
It is much more difficult to replace full chains of amino acids from animal products by plant based diet. And the statememt of eggs being a culprit for cardio-vascular diseases is quite surprising.
What’s difficult exactly? And it’s not really a surprise, Dr G has very old videos hitting on eggs and cardiovascular disease.
It’s really quite old knowledge that eggs aren’t great for heart health.
No it is not. Plant protein is raw construction material. “Used plant protein” already served a purpose into a “finish product”. If you like worst quality, that’s on you.
@@VeganLinked Animal proteins are generally considered complete proteins, containing all essential amino acids, while many plant proteins are incomplete, meaning they lack one or more essential amino acids.
@@romanlajs7314 I’m pretty sure everyone on the planet has already heard this misinformation you’re based on, like over 20 years ago this was already debunked. All plants contain all the essential amino acids. Plants actually create these, they are the original source of those amino acids! It’s just that distribution/ratios vary. And because people eat a variety this is a none issue.
And the beauty is plants don’t have excessive sulfur containing amino acids that appear to increase risk for chronic diseases. Because people don’t eat just one plant there is no need to worry about amino acids. Just eat legumes, greens, grains, fruits, veggies, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, herbs & spices and a variety of each and you’ll more than likely effortlessly get all the protein you need without the problems that come with eating animals. Problems like AGE’s, mTor, IGF-1, sialic acid, arachidonic acid, uric acid, heterocyclic amines, polycyclicaromatichydrocarbons, TMAO, oxidized heme-iron, oxidized cholesterol, excess sulfur containing amino acids, saturated animal fats, etc…
The human body isn’t some inferior entity that depends on other animals to metabolize nutrients for us. You don’t need to eat a nonhuman animal just like don’t need to eat a human animal.
Make sure to cook properly your legumes to prevent the excess of lectins, and make sure you control your carbohydrates, I ate a plant based diet for 7 years and develop leaky gut and a autoimmune condition, the solution cut bag the excess of carbs, and a diet low in lectins, oxalates and histamine, good a long life folks.
Don’t worry about macros, just eat whole vegan foods. Don’t demonize carbs, lectins, oxalates, etc. There’s actually benefits to these foods and even those compounds. You could have acquired leaky gut from who knows what, did you take an aspire? that can cause it in 5 minutes. People know to cook beans or sprout them. Perhaps you had a condition prior to this that just never was resolved, so many possibilities. The solution is keep it simple, use the daily dozen app or just simply eat legumes, greens, grains, fruits, veggies, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, herbs & spices and a variety of each. No need to micromanage or stress on carbs, as a “general rule”. There’s plenty of unique variability out there, most notably because people screw their bodies up in unique ways. Don’t blame it on the plants though. You avoid excess by eating a variety of those ten categories I mentioned and keeping it WHOLE FOODS.
Still pumping out the important facts Dr Greger. All highly referenced. Thank you. 🙏https://www.youtube.com/s/gaming/emoji/7ff574f2/emoji_u1f64f.png
Great video! This makes me think of an interview I did with Dr T. Colin Campbell titled “Animal Protein is Just about Poison” thumbnailed “Protein Became a Religion”. Love your work Dr G!!!!
Here’s the interview Animal Protein is Just about Poison: Vegan Since the 80’s Dr T. Colin Campbell PhD https://youtu.be/wo_Urpco8Zw?si=eLSHChVVw0DvA7Je
And this talk by Dr Campbell is awesome too: “Nutritional Renaissance by T Colin Campbell” https://youtu.be/SajEYq2E_TY?si=XwlLz-Hqi1lBJppy
This is the interview I did with Dr Campbell titled “Animal Protein is Just about Poison: Vegan Since the 80’s Dr T. Colin Campbell PhD” https://youtu.be/wo_Urpco8Zw?si=RCKoa35DETV4etjC
@@VeganLinkedYou do great work!❤🎉
Thanks so much!!! 💚🌱💚 It’s an astronomical amount of work for not a lot of return on investment beyond the hopes that it will help people realize the awesome potential with going vegan by normalizing it through people’s stories and eclipsing misinformation with truth and media! @@BowenUSA
Didn’t The China Study lead with this?
Yup. We’ve got even more evidence now.
I really like you work Dr. Greger. But please, could you stop using again and again the misleading words “Animal protein”. It doesn’t exist. The right words are “Used plant protein” or “Recycled Plant protein.
Like Dr. Milton Mills explains in this video, only plants transform nitrogen into amino acids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15CMTi7uFHc
Human is the only mammalian who can synthesis non-essential amino acids. All the other animals can’t. So all the proteins in their body (all amino acids) come from plants, or other animal they eat (who themselves eat plants).
By using logic, science, rationality and critical thinking, and with all the negatives effects related to the “Used plant protein” or “Recycled Plant protein” (in this video), you can’t in good faith still use the incorrect and misleading words “Animal proteins”.
Thank you! Keep the good work!
By using logic, science, rationality and critical thinking, Milton Mills promotes a diet that no long lived healthy populations, centenarians, USA Presidents, inventors or Nobel Prize winners ever consumed.
Thank you!
This confused me a lot…. So eggs, yoghurt and so on are all bad and kill?
thank you so much <3