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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video I’m

going to share with you how much protein

we really need okay

so if you look this up you know they

will say that you need point eight grams

of protein times your body weight per

day okay honestly I think that’s way way

too much

now even say if you’re an athlete you

would need one or one and a half times

your body weight in the amount of

protein that can go with like 300 grams

of protein per day so here’s the problem

I’m seeing in a clinical practice every

day for the last 26 years okay people

are doing way too much protein they

don’t need as much as they think so I

think you would need half of the rec

requirements okay so I weigh about 193

so I should have about 0.4 times my body

weight so I need about 78 grams of

protein per day now what does that mean

78 grams it’s about 26 grams per meal

all right and I think the average person

needs between like 25 and 35 grams of

protein because anything more than that

tends to turn into sugar now that’s a

generality but it’s it tends to be true

so when it turns into sugar it spikes

insulin okay so so 26 grams per meal

which would be about like 5 ounces so if

I was having a piece of like a burger

patty it’d be like a deck of a car cards

okay or like it’d be 4 eggs and that’s

what I have for breakfast or not quite a

full chicken breast but maybe 3/4 of a

chicken breast so it’s not that much

protein when I consume too much protein

I find my sleeping isn’t quite right

protein has a lot of phosphorus

phosphorus is a stimulant so if you’re

doing all this protein protein snacks

all day you’re not going to sleep that

well you need some a lot more vegetables

to wine you down with all the the

minerals that calm your body so

phosphorus is like an accelerator other

minerals like calcium magnesium from the

vegetables tend to calm you down so I

like a good amount of this and just a

little bit of protein seems to work

really good but you don’t need as much

protein as you think there are variables

so there’s exceptions to the rule so

here’s the variables

everyone if you’re younger you can

tolerate more protein if you’re older

you can’t the liver actually is the

organ that helps break down protein so

if you have a bad liver a fatty liver

because you have a gut

you’re not going to digest a lot of

protein so just a little bit also the

strength of your digestive acids most

people have low acids in their stomach

and then they have heartburn so if they

would have apple cider vinegar they

could start to increase the acid and

digest more protein people that get gas

especially on the protein what that

means is they don’t have enough stomach

acids so the lower the acid the less you

can digest protein okay

exercise now if you’re exercising and

you’re breaking down proteins muscle

you’re going to need a little more

protein all right that’s just the fact

so if you’re sedentary you’re not going

to eat as much protein it’s very very

simple the more stressed you are the

more protein you will need but typically

the average person even if they work out

they don’t need a lot of protein so but

this is something that is kind of some

of you have to test out with your body

and play around with the numbers to get

your exact amount so you might want to

start with 0.4 grams times your body

weight and then play around and see how

you feel okay see if you recover see if

you feel good see if you sleep see if

you’re not bloated after you eat and

then maybe you increase it you know

because some people need a little bit

more some people need a little less okay

now the other thing is that too much

protein raises a hormone called insulin

and that keeps you fat so you can

actually get fat by too much protein

especially if it’s lean protein they

found that whey protein because it’s

really lean low-fat or other types of

lean protein spike insulin more than

fatty protein like things like even

bacon or sausage things like that so

that has a neutral effect on insulin so

when you consume protein don’t try to go

for the lean get the full fat in there

as well so when I eat chicken I have the

skin on it when I have beef I have all

the fat I don’t get it lean I just don’t

because it’s going to spike insulin a

little bit more than you would think

okay then also if you add sugar to the

protein like I was this weekend I was an

in town Pennsylvania at this market I

was just observing people eat massive

amounts of protein with massive amounts

of sugar and they have the sugar and the

cake and the sweet and this and that

what they’re doing is they’re spiking

insulin when you add sugar to protein

you greatly aggravate and exaggerate the

insulin spike so that’s like a deadly

combination you don’t want to add the

bun to the meat or the ketchup or the

sugar to meat especially like the even

the barbecued ribs there’s ways you can

make it without sugar but those are just

some interesting points about protein in

how that will mess up your your weight

as well okay so I hope that helped and

go ahead and write your comments below I

will see you in the next video