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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 the next time you read a label

it says protein now you know that

there’s more to that protein than meets

the eye now I have another video that’s

a bit more detailed into this protein

requirements and giving you examples of

other types of proteins

and I put that up right here you can

check it out