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now when you’re evaluating grain fat

versus grass-fed beef there’s not a lot

of information

or credible studies out there that look

at

the differences between these two things

especially

grass-fed grass finished

to grain finish

beef and so you’ll have people that will

tell you there’s no difference

um they’re both the same so go ahead and

get whatever’s cheaper but that advice

is purely based on there’s no studies

that show the difference until now

there’s a fascinating research project

in place right now that is not 100 done

but there’s definitely enough data to

conclude that there’s a major difference

between these

two sets of variables so that’s what i

want to talk about today this research

project was coordinated and set up by a

non-profit organization called

bionutrient institute which i now became

a member i’ll put their information down

below it’s a it’s a great uh

organization

that is

trying to figure out how do you define

nutrient-dense foods okay and not just

plant-based vegetables but also beef so

this is a territory that there’s not a

tremendous amount of information in fact

if you just take any vegetable like a

tomato and you look it up online

what are the nutritional facts okay

it’ll give you the calories the total

fat the carbohydrates

maybe some nutrients

but my question is when was that data

accumulated what type of soils did they

actually grow that tomato in and

was it organic was it conventional there

are so many variables so the problem

that this organization is trying to

solve

is to do the research and the homework

necessary to get a wide variety of

samples from many different farms they

have 250 different farms that are

participating and they send in their

samples and then all this data is

correlated with the soils that it’s

grown on and the type of vegetable

they’re using so that there’s a really

good transparency to look at

the source of where this tomato comes

from and the nutrients that are in it

not just vitamins and minerals but

phytonutrients as well and one of the

big projects they started last year was

the beef project and

there’s some fascinating data i talked

with the scientist that’s involved with

that and i learned some

very interesting information i want to

share with you today but i do want to

say

they’re working in a

handheld

affordable

scanner that uses an ultraviolet light

to pick up information

from

vegetables and then eventually when the

research is done it can also be used

on beef by scanning

beef and giving you feedback to evaluate

all sorts of biomarkers to tell you what

is

good bad or okay and the handheld

scanner that they’re using for

vegetables right now just about done i

think everything’s going to be done at

the end of the year so it’s a really

exciting research project that aligns

with what i’m into is promoting

nutrient-dense foods but first you have

to do the research to determine what

nutrient density is

and then that takes a lot of time and

money but that gives you a little

background of what this video is about

so today we’re going to talk about the

findings from the this one steady on

beef comparing grass-fed grass finished

beef okay versus grain finished beef

okay the difference between the two now

the only reason

someone would grain finish

an animal is because of the cost you

make more money it’s going to be fattier

it’s probably going to taste a little

bit different and you can sell it for a

larger profit so when i talked to the

scientists yesterday something really

jumped out and i want to just talk about

that first when they evaluated this

muscle from a grass-finished

cow

the mussel meat mimicked

a healthy athlete compared with the

grain finished muscle it mimicked

metabolic syndrome okay so the

biomarkers with the grain finished beef

had

more inflammatory markers higher uric

acid levels

higher homocysteine levels which in

humans that relates to cardiovascular

problems they had also higher

advanced glycated end products which are

a negative biomarker that relates to

proteins that have been connected and

bound to

sugars which kind of clog up the system

and that can occur

all over the body and you see this in

diabetes you see this in alzheimer’s you

see this in all chronic inflammatory

conditions and in the grass fed grass

finished beef there is much higher omega

3 fatty acids okay those are the

anti-inflammatory fats

that help the cardiovascular system in

the brain there is a three times higher

dha and a 10 times higher epa those are

both omega-3 fatty acids also there was

much higher phytonutrients okay now

you’re saying phytonutrients in animal

products yes because grass-fed

grass-finished cows eat grass and grass

has phytonutrients

so there are higher carotenoids like

beta-carotene and many others there is

much higher microbial diversity which

gives you a whole different set of short

chain fatty acids and secondary

compounds that are beneficial to blood

sugars and all sorts of things now this

next point i found very interesting

there was higher amounts of niacinamide

which is a form of vitamin b3 in the

grain finished

beef compared to the grass fed now

that’s kind of weird because why would

you have higher amounts of any vitamin

in a grain finished beef well these

cattle are fed grains that are enriched

with

vitamins especially b vitamins and one

of the vitamins that they enrich these

grains with which are the feed which is

niacinamide because in the grass-fed

grass finish

group there was much higher niacin which

is a different form of b3 in the

grass-fed grass finish group there was

higher vitamin c levels there were

higher vitamin e levels there’s three

times as much vitamin e compared to the

grain group there were anti-tumor

biomarkers that were much higher like

five times higher than in the grain

group

another nutrient that was higher is

called choline and choline is very

beneficial for making sure that your

liver does not get fatty and that’s one

thing i forgot to ask the scientists was

there any difference in liver

fat okay because

when you fatten cattle that last one to

three months of their life

you’re just fattening up not just the

muscle the liver is probably being

fattened as well there is higher

carnosine which is a compound that helps

fat burning so hands down

not only were there more nutrients in

the grass-fed grass finish

beef but we have better metabolic

biomarkers which measures the overall

health of that muscle people think about

muscle just as something that helps you

move

but there’s a huge metabolic factor in

your muscles that helps you create

energy and evaluating the muscle tissue

as far as the biochemistry and the

pathways you can tell a lot about the

overall health of the animal now after

this study is done obviously they need

to do the next level study which is to

evaluate if you’re consuming

a healthier

animal product

does that make your body healthier and

that’s the question i want to ask you

and you can put this in the comments

down below would it make a difference to

your health if you consume

sick animals with metabolic syndrome

versus animals that were healthier that

had

tissue of a healthy athlete so tell me

in the comments down below what you

think

but i do know some people are going to

say well i can’t afford grass-fed

grass-finished beef to answer that

question i’m just going to reply by

telling you

something is better than nothing the

most important thing is to

keep your carbohydrates low and when

someone starts a ketogenic diet

i always tell them do what you can don’t

worry about the quality at first just

keep your carbohydrates low because the

benefits of doing something that is low

carb

is very very huge but then the next

phase you’d want to work up to is the

increasing the quality

of those foods that you eat until you

get to the point where you’re doing a

healthy version of the ketogenic diet

because right now there are a lot of

ketogenic foods out there that

are carb friendly but they’re definitely

not what i consider the healthy version

of the ketogenic diet now on that note i

think it’d be appropriate for you to

watch the next video

on the healthiest foods

that you can eat

i put that up right here check it out

you