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Friday Favorites: Plant-Based Protein – Are Pea and Soy Protein Isolates Harmful?

What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits of plant proteins translate to plant protein isolates?

This is the third video in a series on plant-based meats. If you missed the others, see:
• The Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Meat Substitutes ( )
• Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthful? ( )
• Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Put to the Test ( )
• The Health Effects of Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products vs. BCAAs in Meat ( )
• What About the Heme in Impossible Burgers? ( )
• Does Heme Iron Cause Cancer? ( )
• Heme-Induced N-Nitroso Compounds and Fat Oxidation ( )
• Is Heme the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic? ( )

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  • @vegangames3468 says:

    💙

  • @dianebernier9214 says:

    ❤ thanks, Doc!

  • @Alf22374 says:

    MMMMHH, reheated content👌
    Another W for veganism.

    • @sherril.562 says:

      You guys don’t listen anyway. We should never stop talking about the foods we left behind, most people are still back there, struggling with maladies from animal proteins, and Dr Gregor isn’t going to forget about them. Plant based is light years beyond veganism.

  • @mjs28s says:

    @1:59

    The sodium content is misleading a bit.

    Beef has some sodium in it, of course. But as you cook it you season it more on the outside to make it taste better. they taste of almost nothing if you don’t season them.

    Having cooked Impossible and Beyond patties I didn’t need to season them.

    I wager that the actual as-eaten sodium content of the beef is much higher than the table shows, which seems to show the raw meat status.

    If you have ever eaten an unseasoned beef patty before going plant based, you know what i am talking about.

  • @Len1977gt says:

    Well said Dr. Greger!

  • @EugeniaCarnley says:

    But the impossible burger is highly processed!

  • @henrikwolsky8192 says:

    On a WFPB diet I’ve developed intolerances to soy and gluten.

  • @georgebmac8140 says:

    He seems to be mixing whole plant processed with fiber with processed plant proteins : “Plant protein” – is it processed & refined. Plus much depends on what you measure.

  • @walter1824 says:

    Anyone know a good way of preparing 1 scoop of soy protein powder other than drinking it ?

  • @Parker_Miller_M.S. says:

    At 4:46 Greger states one can’t show cause and effect until plant protein is put to the test in experimental research (RCTs) but earlier references the 2017 IARC monograph on red and processed meat which exclusively uses observational data, and also references smoking and lung cancer risk which that relationship is entirely observational data. Hes effectively contradicting himself in the video. Still good overall data being presented showing plant protein is more health promoting to animal protein generally though.

  • @ABCDEF-zl6nj says:

    Yes and he talks about that in other videos saying how they should not be consumed regularly. Instead, use them as a bridge when transitioning from a meat to plant based diet.

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