What Protein Is Best? – Dr. Berg

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hey Dr Burke here in this video we’re going to talk about protein and the different types of protein I always uh get this question what type of protein should I consume and so let me just kind of go through some things with you uh we have red meat right here and this could include uh lamb and uh beef and bison there’s some positives to this number one um it’s a complete protein and there’s very few people have allergies against this meat the negatives are that it’s a little bit harder to digest for some people if they get a little older okay cuz your stomachs you have to it takes a good digestive system to digest uh red meats um one way that you can do this is just to chew it longer um and also um have a smaller piece uh instead of a Texas style steak um okay the drawback is that not all of it’s usable or bioavailable so we can we digest um a good portion but not the whole thing there’s other types of protein that are a little bit more bioavailable but this is not a bad thing people are freaked out about it but really what you should be freaked out about is the commercial factory farm beef because there are so many antibiotics um hormones and even the the grains that they feed these animals are all GMO especially like the soy and the corn so you need if you’re going to consume red meat you’re going to have to do the grass-fed or organic or High that has a higher omega-3 fatty acid or pasture raised okay so that’s the best way to consume meat um but the problem is going to a restaurant so be careful with that because of those antibiotics poultry uh chicken turkey uh easier to digest less expensive than red meat um unless it’s organic uh you’re getting a large amount of Arsenic and for Malahide I’m sorry that’s what you’re that’s what’s in there they use fahid for the feed for poultry as a binder and it’s uh it’s legal I don’t know why they’re even using Prozac uh for these chickens to chill them out so they that the meat is not is more tender because they’re so stressed out because they’re Factory farmed antihistamines vadrol caffeine this is crazy so when you go out to dinner and you consume chicken or you go to a fast food place or you go to the grocery store realize that unless you’re doing the organic you’re getting all this crap in here so organic is non- GMO feeds free range um you know use smaller Farms like a small farmer like a from a a local uh place that is around your your neighborhood is a lot better and then I’m going to talk about eggs down here but I just want to mention since they’re connected um is it the chicken or the egg well let’s talk about the chicken uh egg yolks are very very healthy for you it’s almost as if it’s a um a multivitamin mineral and eggs are probably the most perfect food that you can eat you can pretty much live on eggs but a pro the problem is you want to have them organic um if the egg yolk is organic and and pasturage if it’s really good and it’s and these chickens are eating like lot of the grass and other types of feed that’s not all grain GMO grain then the yolks will be very bright orange okay so I think there’s a really good one’s called the shannond DOA Valley eggs if I’m not Mist mistaken I’ll actually put a link down here I’ll go I’ll actually find that um the type of eggs that I eat and I’ll put a little link underneath it um but anyway we have um the egg yolks should be bright and when you crack them they should be kind of hard to break not so flimsy and easy that just means there’s more calcium in the shells um okay egg yolks that are grass-fed uh have a lot of vit vamin K2 that’s good for the arteries um and then one of the best quality proteins very nutrient dense but if it’s not organic there’s a lot of antibiotics and hormones okay um so again we want the grass fed I like the small farms it’s a little more expensive but if you’re paying even $5 for a dozen that’s not uh expensive I mean you pretty much only eat you know two three four eggs at a time and you can get quite a few meals out of that so it still comes out pretty good it’s a high quality protein I like eggs the best out of everything okay so now poultry uh and then we talk about fish high quality protein no carbs great omega-3 fatty acids okay so fish is really good but if it’s farm raised there’s higher amounts of mercury there’s um lower omega-3 fatty acids um there’s other problems that they other things they put in the feed and dioxin so we want to consume wild caught fish as the ideal scene okay all right pork highly digestible not any worse than the red meter poultry because of all this stuff right here um very high in vitamin B1 but you want to avoid pork from third world countries because they pretty much eat garbage and waste um High antibiotic uh injections unless it’s organic so if you consume pork that is free range but it’s very rare to find it I don’t think there’s a problem with it if that’s a clean animal I do not think there’s a problem with it compared to this I mean I don’t know why people would have chicken and not pork they think it’s a dirty animal these other dirty animals right through here both these unless it’s pasture raised Farm unless it’s not farm factory farm okay let’s talk about Dairy um dairy uh most milk is is uh cooked at 160° it’s kind of a dead protein and there’s a lot of problems with it um hormone wise antibiotic wise um if you can find raw milk from a farmer that’s great but in our state it’s illegal so that’s a problem so there’s a lot people a lot of uh people are allergic to it uh to the casine protein and also the lactose intolerant um and also pasteurization destroys most of the nutrition okay so milk by itself is not good but when you ferment the milk and you make yogurt that’s a little bit better because you’re getting the friendly bacteria so fermentation increases the protein amino acid content and and the microbes that’ll help your gut so but yogurt is a little bit higher in carbohydrates than cheese so I would recommend if you’re trying to lose weight do more cheese than yogurt um okay so we want to do whole milk yogurt don’t buy the lowfat yogurt don’t buy the no fat yogurt um it’s hard to find it and I don’t know why people are taking the fat out that’s the best part for nutrition wise um you have all these fat cyle vitamins in there but it’s not going to put weight on you so I I I always go for the whole milk with the cream on top if you can find it cheese very high quality protein uh I’m not talking about valvita though I’m I’m talking about European cheeses that you can get from Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods or some of the store that has cheese that is not with hormones that are grass-fed cows um or or sheep or um goat cheese on in other places like France Switzerland Australia they all have really good cheeses that are grass-fed and uh so that’s what I consume higher protein very low sugar very low allergies in a high quality cheese by the way and there’s no hormones or antibiotics so I do consume cheese and yes I am from Wisconsin so that’s a good source Kefir is way better than yogurt it’s a sour type of fermented drink it’s less sugar uh more microbes make sure you get the grassfed that’s the best and you’re good to go we talked about eggs soy it’s a high uh protein uh food if it’s fermented it might be okay in small quantities if it’s organic unless you’re trying to reduce estrogen but typically most people are highly allergic to it it’s one of the most um destroyed products because they 90 I think over 90% of all the soil is genetically modified so that’s a problem so you would have to get organic and most the diet programs use soy protein isolates which is really bad it’s in Morning Star it’s in a lot of the prepackaged foods and that creates major problems in our digestive system and other in our livers so I do not recommend recommend it and um so we want to avoid soy unless in small qu