Protein Is Not a Protein

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you know a protein is not really a protein now what am I talking about a protein is not a protein there’s a few confusions related to this topic that I want to clear up because I keep running into them over and over and over the first one relates to protein requirements okay so typically the minimum requirement of protein that you need per day on average it’s like 50 grams now the formula for that which can cause this number to vary is like 0. 8 to 1 gram of protein per your kilogram weight your body weight here’s where the confusion lies let’s take a beef steak okay you get a hundred grams of this beef steak which is about 3. 5 ounces and so here you are going to eat the steak 100 grams and you’re thinking wow I’m getting double the amount that I really need right now because there’s two things we have the weight of the steak okay and then you have the amount of protein in the steak two different things because the actual protein in that beef is only 26 grams not 100 grams and now you’re saying well wait a second I thought it’s kind of just pure protein isn’t it like no there’s some fat in there and the rest of it is not carbs the rest of it is mainly water okay water weight that’s what it is it has a lot of water weight in it this is why when you freeze dry a steak it’s like paper it’s really light but the point is when you’re dealing with these protein requirements we’re not talking about the actual weight of the food we’re talking about the protein in that food so that’s clarification number one the next confusion and very important thing to know is that one protein varies with other proteins in the amount of amino acids that they have as far as the quality and and the ratios so in other words we really don’t have a requirement for protein at all we have a requirement for the amino acids in those proteins and that’s important because when you’re looking at labels it doesn’t tell you the amino acids it just says the total protein when we’re talking about the ketogenic diet it says you need 20 protein okay but again no one’s talking about the amino acids and the problem lies in the quality of protein or the bioavailable amino acids in protein food that you eat is a huge difference between animal protein and plant protein the absolute best bioavailable protein is breast milk but that’s usually not available so the second one is eggs and then meat and chicken and then Dairy and then way down the list you get all these plant proteins so some of the problem with plant proteins is they have all eight essential amino acids but certain ones are very very very tiny okay like leucine for example leucine is essential to grow muscles and if you’re living on plant-based proteins you’re not going to get a lot of leucine and your muscles are going to suffer let’s take wheat protein which by the way is like 80 of all the plant-based protein comes from wheat very low in leucine lysine and methionine but it’s protein right now how can you overcompensate with that well just eat more of it right well the problem is if you eat more of it you’re going to get more carbs okay especially if you’re doing like whole plant Foods I mean if you’re going to ask me like if you want to be a vegan and you want to have foods that are high in protein what foods would they be I mean that’s really hard because there is no um vegan food that’s just very high concentrated protein there’s some protein in nuts there’s some protein in soy there’s some protein in grains but there’s also a good amount of carbs so as you increase the protein you increase the carbs and it bumps you completely out of keto now I had someone on my show bring up this really interesting question about she’s a vegetarian and she has gut issues and she wants to solve this problem now I already know if you’re doing keto which she’s trying to do and you have problems with your gut you should probably go carnivore well that’s a little conflicting if you’re trying to be a vegetarian or a vegan however thank goodness she’s a vegetarian not a vegan because at least you can do eggs and that’s what I told her to do it is not easy to do keto on a vegan or a vegetarian diet simply because now you’re going to have to start consuming foods that are refined like even refined protein powders it’s so interesting to me to see these vegan protein powders and they call them clean protein versus what dirty animal protein because it’s dirty what about the grass-fed grass finish animal protein that’s that’s pretty darn clean and it’s complete the plant-based protein doesn’t even come close to the quality of protein that your body needs especially if you’re younger and you’re growing child if you feed a very small child certain foods without enough of the right amino acids it can stunt their growth and so I asked this lady I said um why did you become a vegetarian she goes well my whole life I was a vegetarian because I just can’t eat me because it hurts my stomach I’m like wow that’s interesting our bodies naturally have a very acidic stomach so acidic like between one and three that’s close to battery acid we should be able to digest protein very easily unless the pH is gone up and has become a weaker acid and now we can’t tolerate animal proteins especially so one big clue of having not enough acid or maybe a weaker stomach acid is the intolerance of meat you just can’t digest meat you reject red meat especially so I told her I said I think we can solve your problem are you adverse to consuming animal products if your body can digest them and she says no I said good start taking betaine hydrochloride start taking maybe two with the meal three four or five and keep adding them slowly and then see what happens in a few weeks I bet you it’s gonna certify your stomach you’ll be able to digest the protein and problem assault so all of our food never comes as one macro like just pure carbohydrates or pure fats or pure protein unless you refine them all foods come in combinations and when you’re looking at protein requirements it’s really the the amino acid profile or protein inside that food and if you’re doing like a plant-based protein and you’re deficient in some of these amino acids the two big symptoms that you’re going to experience are number one fatigue or lethargy and number two your mood is going to drop but unfortunately people are using more plant-based proteins a lot of soy protein and it’s messing up with their digestion it’s affecting their mood it’s affecting their ability to generate energy I mean if you look at uh at least the US you know as far as plant-based we’re already at 60 percent plant-based proteins of course in the form of cereals which have other carbs but the point is that we’re doing a lot of grains legumes uh tubers things like that I think the percentage of animal meat is like 35 so I just want to clear up a few of these really important points if you have a small child or a grandchild right and you you’re shifting them onto food uh from uh breastfeeding unfortunately a lot of these purees or these toddler Foods or these infant formula type foods are just loaded with soy and these so-called healthy clean plant proteins which is going to create a lot of problems in their digestion I did find a company that I’m going to recommend to you if you need it for your toddler it’s called Serenity kids I’ve never contacted this company I have no affiliation but I am just blown away at the quality of these products that they use in these little pouches they’re using like Meats from wonderful Farms where they have like transparency and they have they put squash in there and vegetables and bone broth so it’s an awesome product and I’ll put a link down below if you have a grandchild or child that might need something better than the what they have out there like in the baby food where they have just applesauce or cereals and terrible t