Is Red Meat Bad for You? – Dr. Berg

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hey guys Dr Burg here in this video we’re going to discuss the truth about red meat now before we start I do know that this is very controversial subject and a lot of people are very passionate about you know animals being killed and that but I want to talk about just about the health benefits uh about actual red meat and really kind of dig deep in what the studies say there’s first of all you have to realize that uh there are multiple studies that disagree with red meat being the source of cancer okay how ever the study called the nurse health study and I’ll put the link down below if you actually read it states that it increases your um risk by 133% of of dying of all illnesses or diseases okay so it does increase your risk so uh and they said you need to switch to chicken and whole grains okay but let’s take a look at what kind of study they actually did to confirm that first of all it wasn’t an experimental study it was an OBS observational study based B on a questionnaire that was given out every two years from 1980 to 2006 now I will guarantee there’s when you do a questioner for a study it’s not a controlled study there are so many variables you can’t isolate uh these variables like other things that people ate if they’re a smoker or whatnot so it leaves uh the things up to a lot of biases and it’s very very weak but here’s the interesting thing they always use the word risk okay what does risk mean why don’t they just say rate of getting cancer or dying well because risk has a different term legally it actually is more open um it doesn’t necessarily mean you have a 133% uh rate of getting of dying so it’s kind of a a big variable there now the other thing is they did not identify if it was grass-fed beef was it processed beef was it organic was it at Donald’s they didn’t measure that data okay so the question is what are the real statistics from studies on processed meat okay process red meat you know it’s classified as a class one carcinogen at the same level of smoking right so of course people are freaking out about it um but take a look at like bowel cancer they found that three more incidents of bowel cancer occur per 100,000 people okay 100,000 cases that’s 133 th000 cases so they have three more incidents of bowel cancer well cancer I mean smoking increases your Chance by 20x 20 times more so that’s like you can’t compare those two it’s not really a class one carcinogen it’s um now what I want to talk about is I do not believe that there’s any risk or any studies that show that consuming grass-fed quality beef will increase your risk of dying at all or any diseases okay um now the benefit of red meat and by the way I consume a lot of red meat I don’t do a lot per sitting I’ll do a small amount maybe three or four ounces but I do my body feels great on really good red meat the kind of red meat that I buy I don’t buy the 90% lean I buy the 85% because that lean stuff I just it’s harder to digest than when it has fat in it so so that’s just a side note but red meat has more absorbable vitamin D than milk okay it has more B12 B1 B2 B3 B6 B5 it has tons of absorbable iron it has healthy collagen it has a good amount of potassium believe it or not it has zinc magnesium copper phosphates and it’s loaded with omega-3 in fact it has five times more omega-3 grass fed beef has five times more omega-3 than grain-fed beef and the problem with grain fed is not only sometimes you involve hormones but you involve um um the genetically modified GMO soy and corn in the feed so that’s another big problem that they would I would love for them to do a study on that so when you do research uh I think the problem with doing research is that you’re going to actually try to first have a theory and then you’re going to come find research to back it up and that’s how people approach it they have this thing this fixed idea in mind and now I’m going to find research to back up my theory and then so I can prove my theory rather than do an evaluation on the data and see where it ends up it’s a better Viewpoint okay so that’s my two cents on meet and uh thanks for watching put your comments below hey guys thank you so much for watching please click the Subscribe button and I will see you in the next video