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I’d like to discuss the specific type of

protein that you should be focusing on

for your specific body problem the

question is should it be fish should it

be eggs what about beef what about

chicken should you consume beef liver or

what about plant protein or even protein

powder So today we’re going to look at

the nutrition profile in all of those

different sources of protein and I’m

talking about

amino acids uh bioavailability of those

amino acids

that means how well they’re absorbed and

utilized also the B vitamins in those

proteins the omega-3 to omega-6 fatty

acids in those proteins the minerals in

those proteins that trace minerals in

these proteins and we’re going to look

at which type of protein is good for

certain things more than other things

when I started to do this I quickly

found out that plant protein sources

those so-called clean plant-based

proteins they’re not sufficient in other

words they don’t have the quantities of

amino acids and they don’t have the type

of amino acids that are bioavailable

they don’t have the right ratios of

these essential amino acids so I didn’t

even include that in the list

I also didn’t include protein powders

why because in nature protein always

comes with certain nutrients like B

vitamins and minerals and trace minerals

when you do protein powders it doesn’t

have those things in it and these

vitamins and minerals are very essential

to make that protein work in other words

you know people might have this idea

that you know if you just have enough

protein and eat more protein that you’ll

build more muscles and ligaments and

tendons and Bone Etc but that protein in

our body cannot work unless you have

vitamins and minerals and trace minerals

the vitamins and minerals and trace

minerals are called

cofactors or

coenzymes and so if we look at the

biochemical Pathways in our bodies that

help to do all the functions in the body

they’re all dependent on certain

cofactors and coenzymes and for example

if you’re a deficient like B12 you can’t

make red blood cells or if you’re

lacking vitamin C your adrenals can’t

work and you can’t make collagen and the

other important point I want to

emphasize is we don’t just need protein

for our muscles and ligaments and

tendons we need it for all of our

biochemistry there’s a lot going on in

everybody tissue from making hormones to

making neurotransmitters to affect your

mood to building structural things like

just things to keep the heart and Rhythm

and other things that keep your nervous

system intact not to mention keep your

immune system strong and from this list

I focused on the higher quality protein

sources like the grass-fed versus the

grain fed and the wild caught versus the

farm-raised fish and the pasture-raised

eggs versus the conventional you know

eggs that are from chickens in a barn so

let’s start off with the first condition

which is basically aging as we age we

definitely need more protein for repair

to support maintenance especially of our

muscles a lot of us when we get older we

lose our hair we lose the elasticity we

lose the ability to make antioxidants we

lose the ability to detoxify like we did

when we’re 18 years old but the other

important factor to know about as we age

we also lose our hydrochloric acid in

our stomach the strength or the pH of

the stomach

goes higher that means less acidic as we

get older so what does this have to do

with protein well you need this very

strong concentrated stomach acid to

break down different types of protein

into what we really need is amino acids

so the older you get the less

hydrochloric acid you have that means

you need to digest certain types of

protein that are easy to digest like

eggs and fish

and this is probably also the reason why

as someone ages they just dislike the

taste of red meat sometimes because red

meat is a bit more difficult to digest

but red meat has more proteins okay it

has more leucine which is a key amino

acid to help maintain muscle but if you

can’t digest it it doesn’t matter right

I mean if we compare even beef to eggs

beef has more vitamin B3 B6 B12 but X

have more B2 B9 which is biotin and

vitamin B5 yet beef if we compare that

to eggs has more iron magnesium

potassium and zinc but eggs have a bit

more calcium phosphorus and sodium so

you can see that each protein Source has

its own strength but if we compare the

two eggs are easier to digest but this

is what I would recommend if you’re

older

um and you have low stomach acids I

suggest you just add betaine

hydrochloride to your diet before you

eat maybe three butane hydrochloride

tablets before you eat that way you can

build up the acid and start breaking

down a larger variety of protein sources

that way you can get the benefit of beef

when you eat it as well as eggs and fish

because you’re about to learn each

protein Source has its uniqueness it has

its positives and its weaknesses but as

we age we need more stomach acid as a

side note the way you know you need more

stomach acid is this if you have

indigestion if you get gas if you get

acid reflux especially gerd that means

you need more hydrochloric acid and you

know that sounds strange but

if that confuses you watch the video

when we’re done with this below I’ll put

it in the description so let’s assume

that you’re adding this betaine

hydrochloride if you’re getting older to

be able to digest red meat maybe you

just do red meat um once or twice a week

now I would recommend oysters once a

week okay or other similar shellfish

because of the high level of zinc and

selenium and especially iron that as we

get older we need more of selenium is

good for the thyroid zinc’s good for the

immune system and testosterone and iron

is good for the blood but here’s the

thing and this mainly pertains to men if

you are a man and you’re watching this

and you have a problem with iron you

might have either a genetic problem with

iron where you hold on to iron or you

just don’t do well with excess iron you

need to consume

more chicken meat white meat not the red

meat but more the white meat and turkey

okay not the dark meat but the white

meat that way you can have less amount

of iron I don’t know if you like liver

beef liver or not but if you’re getting

older and you have liver once a week boy

that would give you super high level

amount of nutrition I mean even if we

compare beef liver to regular beef beef

liver is super high in iron it has much

more iron than regular beef it has super

amounts of folate it has about the same

amount of amino acids as beef but it has

a lot of other things that’s that are

really good for your body but if we

compare beef liver to oysters Believe It

or Not oysters have more iron than even

beef liver oysters have more zinc than

beef liver as well and so oysters are at

the top of the list with those nutrients

even more than red meat but if you can

consume beef liver once a week if you

like it you know I personally don’t like

it I wouldn’t do it myself off but if

you like it like liver and onions that

would be a really good thing to do as

you age the other thing that’s I think

important to consume twice a week is

fatty fish like salmon or sardines that

way you can have higher levels of

omega-3 fatty acids as part of the raw

material to support your brain as well

as reduce inflammation and support your

heart as well the next condition I want

to talk about is osteoporosis or

osteopenia that basically is a loss of

bone osteopenia is like the the phase

before you get osteoporosis and of

course one of the most important things

for that would be vitamin D a good

amount of vitamin D as well as the

omega-3 to help your bones now let’s

shift to another condition called anemia

okay the two things you need for anemia

are iron and b12 and of course I already

mentioned oysters have the highest

amount of iron but beef liver is also

very high in iron and it’s also very

very high in b 12 in fact it has the

most B12 of anything so the more anemic

you are the more you should have those

two now you can also do red meat which

is loaded with iron as well and b12 but

you can do a combination of those

depending on what you prefer but if we

compare like iron to plant sources of

iron it’s not bioavailable the animal

sources of iron are the best now when we

get into chicken okay chicken and turkey

have more of the non-heme iron so it’s

not as available as like red meat and

for some people when they consume red

meat it’s not that they don’t have

enough hydrochloric acid they might have

other problems with malabsorption in the

digestive system so if they want to get

the benefit of this red meat just

consume hamburger now let me just

mention hamburger now of course you’d

want to consume grass-fed now you might

say well I don’t really like the taste

of grass-fed compared to you know

regular grain fed because grain fed has

more fat in it but if we look at the

health of that animal like a fatty

animal versus an animal that’s leaner

even if you have like deer meat this is

a difference between consuming like

athletic meet versus kind of a meat

that’s borders on like metabolic

syndrome or diabetes the fattier that

meat the less health of that meat and I

do have a theory and the theory goes

like this

you may get a little healthier if you

consume healthier animals and healthier

plants but that’s just the theory right

now of course we have to do the testing

to really find out so if someone has

lower digestive problems like irritable

bowel syndrome they probably will do

better on hamburger and eggs those two

are really high in nutrients okay but

they’re easier to digest and with

malabsorption problems that occur with

you know inflammation in your gut you’ll

get a higher level of nutrition or more

of a nutrient dense type

compound that penetrates this

malabsorption barrier

it wouldn’t hurt to have that grass-fed

beef liver once a week as well to get

your iron in your B vitamins now what

about macular degeneration okay that’s a

problem with the back of the eye with

the retina and there’s two different

phytochemicals that help macular

degeneration lutein and zeaxanthin which

happens to be in egg yolks so eggs are

good for that condition

oysters or other shellfish are good as

well because of the zinc but to really

fix it you’re going to have to fix

insulin resistance and get off all your

carbs as well as well as avoiding the

omega-6 fatty acids which is very high

in chicken because they’re grain Fed so

anyone with macular degeneration should

not be consuming chicken or even turkey

all right what about inflammation in

general well that can include any

condition with itis like bursitis

tendonitis arthritis as well as

autoimmune diseases anything with

inflammation is going to do good with

omega-3 fatty acids okay omega-3 fatty

acids are anti-inflammatory so that

would be that fatty fish like salmon but

I just want to mention one little note

about fish okay if we compare

farm-raised fish to wild caught fish you

may see similar nutrients for almost

everything in similar protein but

there’s some big differences one is even

no farm-raised fish is high in omega-3

it’s also very high in omega-6 at the

same time and omega-3 and omega-6

compete for each other so if you’re

consuming something with higher amounts

of omega-6 that’s going to cancel out

the effects of Omega-3 because they both

compete for the same enzymes so if

possible start consuming the wild caught

and not the farm raised now what about

hypertension high blood pressure well

there’s a lot of evidence that shows

that omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D

are really good for that condition and

that brings us back to the fatty fish

again like salmon would be really good

for hypertension but also as a side note

if you’re deficient in potassium you can

get high blood pressure just from that

that condition is called

hypocalemic

hypertension so you’re going to need to

add your potassium from large salads or

large amount of vegetables but also

vitamin D can help lower blood pressure

all right now what about depression well

depression can be improved with vitamin

D for sure and omega-3 fatty acids

because a certain omega-3 fatty acid

called DHA makes up 20 of all the fats

in your brain so structurally it’s very

important in your brain it’s been shown

to improve cognitive function as well as

mood now if we shift to anxiety for

example you need more B vitamins so that

would be the beef liver right beef liver

gives you a lot of B vitamins you can

also get it from nutritional yeast but

beef liver is a really good source of B

vitamins now what about muscle building

in general I’m going to say red meat red

meat has a really high amount of amino

acids it has to be vitamins it has zinc

it has iron and the zinc will help you

increase testosterone as well which will

then help you increase the muscles and

if you add the exercise on top of that

you’ll have a complete package and I’m

just comparing this to like the whey

protein powder which has none of the

cofactors or coenzymes to allow those

proteins to work so if you’re deficient

and vitamins and minerals and you take

whey protein powder it’s not going to

work to help anything connected to your

muscles what about gallstones well

that’s usually a lack of a certain amino

acid that’s needed or required to make

bile because a gallstone is really a

deficiency of bile so you need more

taurine and you can get taurine from

scallops muscles and clams what about if

you have a problem in detoxification you

get exposed to let’s say mold or a heavy

metal or a chemical or you’re walking

down the grocery store and you you smell

some of these chemicals cleaning

chemicals and your body starts

you know malfunctioning or on a DNA test

you have genes that show poor

detoxification this usually means you

need more nutrients especially B

vitamins to help these enzymes detoxify

better I mean the best thing would be

grass-fed beef liver as well as red meat

all right what about if you have a fatty

liver okay what’s good for that well

that can come from a choline deficiency

choline is one of the B vitamins again

and one of the highest foods with

choline is egg yolks so I would

recommend eggs for a fatty liver all

right now what about diabetes is there

anything that would be a little bit

better than other things for diabetes

what’s interesting about shellfish okay

is shellfish actually has

carbohydrates it has more carbohydrates

than any other types of protein sources

that would be like the stored glycogen

in a shellfish so you probably want to

avoid shellfish because it has

a bit of sugar and instead add the fatty

fish like salmon which has the omega-3

fatty acids which can help stabilize

this insulin problem and make insulin

more sensitive but also grass-fed beef

is very high in something called CLA has

been known to make insulin more

sensitive helping your blood sugars but

you’re not going to find a lot of CLA in

like regular beef has to be grass-fed

not grain fed some of you might be

saying well I just can’t afford

grass-fed or wild caught or pasteurized

type foods

and I do understand that this video is

not necessarily for trying to find the

cheapest source of protein I mean I

remember I was in college I had no money

I had to stretch my pennies and yes I

went to Burger King to get the two

burgers for a buck many many times and

yes I went to the discount grocery

stores to get the canned foods and the

very unhealthy foods and of course I

just said I’ll eat healthy when I

graduated which didn’t happen for

probably 10 years after that but the

point is that do the best you can right

now with what you have and do

intermittent fasting which means you’ll

be spending less money on food so you

can afford a little more money to invest

in the quality of food that you eat as

you probably are realizing certain

protein sources have their strengths and

weaknesses so it’s always good to have a

combination of different protein sources

but what I wanted to do is kind of give

you some ideas on if you were to have

the best source to optimize

the profile of nutrition a certain

protein Source what would that be for

certain conditions what should you focus

on more than other things and how can

the quality of that protein be better

for you I mean like even the farm-raised

fish uh compared to wild caught fish

kind of similar protein or amino acid

profiles but the farm-raised fish has a

lot more omega-6 it has more Mercury

which has more pcps which is kind of

considered a toxin anyway I hope I

enlightened you on these different

protein sources and since I did mention

this low stomach acid problem if you

want more information on that you should

watch this video right here