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so in this video we’re going to talk

about protein there is so many

confusions about protein and also should

I have this amount or that amount or

should I be a vegetarian so I’m going to

clear up some common misconceptions

about protein one of the principal

principles behind any diet is to you

want to trigger fat burning right you

want to lose weight ah if we look at the

viewpoint of what hormones trigger fat

burning and what foods trigger those

hormones protein comes up very at the

top of the list so protein does trigger

the fat burning hormones okay

but you have to understand what is

approaching because in nature very few

things come in pure proteins they’re

always a combination of proteins

carbohydrates and fats and if you’re

basing your diet on a calorie counting

model which by the way is incorrect

you’re going to be looking more at the

fat calories and avoiding those since

they have the most calories you’re not

going to be looking at the protein part

of this okay so that’s a misconception

and your entire diet is going to be

wrong or if you’re looking at maybe the

Atkins diet and you’re only focused on

protein and realize there’s six other

types of foods that trigger fat burning

process but they’re focused just on the

protein then you’re going to ignore some

of the other pieces the possible puzzle

especially as it relates to the liver

function because the more the liver is

damaged the more the liver is

dysfunctional the older you get the less

the liver can function the less protein

you can digest so if you start

increasing too much protein it’s going

to throw off something else and also if

the liver is not good you’re not going

to be able to have the thyroid work as a

thyroid works through the liver as well

so anyway let’s just talk about protein

and some of the misconceptions let’s you

know you have people that say well I’m

eating protein I’m eating nuts okay well

let’s take a look nuts

only have 15% protein that’s not a lot

so you’re not going to be triggering a

lot of fat burning with nuts and

it has 13% carbohydrates so that’s

fairly low and those carbohydrates

aren’t necessarily high sugar

carbohydrates they don’t turn into sugar

very fast unless you have maybe cashews

but for the most part they don’t turn in

the sugar very fat fast but they are

they are high in fat but now when we’re

looking at the triggering the fat

burning process fat is neutral so in

other words we don’t necessarily have to

worry about fats if you want to burn fat

through the hormone system but we do

have to worry about fats in relationship

to what it does to the liver so too much

fat can irritate and clog up the liver

and that’s why a lot of times we need

nuts high in fat it irritates the gall

bladder so the way we counter that is we

we increase the greens the vegetables to

keep the liver healthy so as long as

you’re having enough greens in the diet

about 6 or 7 cups a day you can pretty

much get away with fat and that includes

even bacon and things like that so

that’s how we counter it but if you are

only eating fat and protein that can

aggravate the liver so what we want to

do is we want to keep the carbs

relatively on the low side but I’m not

talking about all carbs I’m talking

about the ones that turn into sugar fast

so even though vegetables are almost all

carbohydrate they’re they’re very high

in fiber and they’re very low in sugar

and they don’t turn on the fat they’re

in soluble fiber so they don’t really

turn into sugar on the other hand grains

are very high in carbs but they’re

different than vegetable because they’re

deterred in the sugar very very fast

okay so we want to we want a food that

has a bit higher amounts of protein a

bit low carb or carbs that don’t break

it down in the sugar very easily and we

really don’t care about the fats because

we’re going to keep our vegetable

content very high to flush things out of

the liver all right so this whole

conception of high calorie high fat

turning the fat just take that and just

put it over here because that really

doesn’t

affect insulin which is the thing that

really makes you get fat so and I know

people are in grits in their mind and

like oh my gosh I have to vote all fat

well how does that work in the for you

does it work I mean try it

you cut your fats out it never really

turns into weight loss it’s the carbs

okay so we also have another factor here

called nutrients because what we want to

do is you want something high in

nutrients so let’s just take out meal

for example oatmeal for breakfast is

like eating cardboard it’s very low in

nutrients yes it has some factors that

help lower cholesterol a little bit but

as far as nutrients it’s low all right

same thing with hummus hummus is a great

food but it’s very low in nutrients okay

so if you’re trying to eat foods that

increase the health if you have oatmeal

or hummus don’t be surprised if they I

mean they’re like a neutral food they

might not hurt you but they might not

help you again like eating cardboard

it’s not going to kill you but it’s not

going to help you so nuts

okay so nuts do have some good amount of

nutrients okay so we have that now beans

have 23 percent protein a bit more than

nuts but look at the carb 72% vs. 13% so

this is going to get you right here

those carbs now I’m not against beans

and look at how low they are in fat but

they do have a bit a bit too many carbs

too if you’re trying to lose weight now

there’s layers to this problem so it’s

not just as simple as calories in equals

calories out or high protein or low fat

you have there’s different layers of

complexities and I’m trying to make it

simple but one layer is this beans are

cooked so you actually destroy enzymes

and then you destroy nutrition so you’re

eating kind of a dead product and also

even though they have higher

our protein the nuts they’re very very

low in fat and also most vegetarian

programs say or low low fat diets say oh

yeah beans are great because there’s

such low in fat and low in calorie and

they’re going to you’re just going to

burn off these calories but a lot of

these carbohydrates especially refined

beans will those that’ll turn into sugar

pretty fast and black beans it’s it’s

not going to help your weight loss so we

have this food and then we have your

body interaction with it hormonal e if

your metabolism is low and that’s

another variable if you consume some of

these foods too high in carb it’s going

to create an effect on your metabolism

in fact it’s going to slow you way down

if your metabolism is high you can get

away with all these carbs but and most

people especially if they reach the age

of 40 or 50 you’re not going to be able

to get away with these higher

carbohydrate foods so even though you

might walk it off in a mile the insulin

response the sugar response could last

far more than that mile it could last

two three four days okay

so what you have to know is just a

little bit of the wrong thing can

nullify a lot of good things

alright so hope I’m not confusing you

too much here I probably am but let’s

just kind of go through this so nuts

high in fat but that’s okay if we keep

our vegetables high because it’s higher

nutrients beans most of them are ugly

cooked you’re not gonna eat raw beans

and so the nutrition is not as high with

beans but it’s kind of a neutral food if

your metabolism is good if you trying to

lose weight you’re going to find beans

might not help you lose weight and then

we have hummus again look at eleven

percent protein 45 percent carbs forty

four percent fat okay alright not too

bad it’s not going to turn into sugar

that bad because there’s a certain

amount of fiber but it’s like a neutral

food because the nutrition is not very

high so it would be something to snack

on something to keep you going

but it’s not necessarily going to help

you burn fat but it’s not necessarily

going to cause you to gain weight either

so this is a neutral food now let’s talk

about yogurt and cheese

now yogurt has 36% protein that’s that’s

not bad that’s a good amount of protein

and then also cheese has a little higher

protein but it also depending on what

type of cheese that you consume because

the the more aged it is the higher

protein content in the less carbohydrate

because those enzymes or those bacteria

in the cheese that make these fermented

products like yogurt kefir and cheese

especially tend to eat up some of the

lactose the milk sugar in there reducing

the sugar so now we have all these

beneficial bacteria

we got great protein and we have some

fat as well especially if if the low-fat

cheese but we’re not concerned about the

fat because we’re adding our vegetables

very very hot so yogurt might help us

but look at it does have 29% sugar

I’m sorry carbohydrate so that is a bit

high so if you’re trying to lose weight

you may find that yogurt might slow you

down a little bit but you depends on

your metabolism okay if your metabolism

is slow you might have to eliminate all

these high carb things definitely beans

definitely hummus and definitely yogurt

you could probably get by with cheese

though because cheese is not very high

in car but yogurt and kefir is but nuts

would be okay because look at how low

that would be 13% now let’s get into the

grains grains have 15% protein that is

like very very low and look at how much

carb it’s 75 percent carb but the

catch-22 with this carb it’s this is not

like vegetable this is like turning in

the sugar very very fast so grains are

very very bad for weight loss yet

they’re look at how low the aren’t fats

so all these low fat diet so-called

gurus will say it’s okay to consume

grains because it’s such a low in fat

and

have complex carbohydrates and have

whole-grain not refined grain or white

bread well it doesn’t matter whole grain

still turns in the sugar faster than

sugar some of these sugars turn affect

your blood sugars and there’s a great

book that you can weep belly that talks

about how whole-grain is very very bad

advice so when you’re consuming a diet a

balanced diet the food pyramid diet and

you have a fat situation stubborn belly

fat or whatever you you can’t do a

balanced diet you can’t do those little

protein bars that have you know balanced

proteins carbohydrates and fats why

because your body’s out of balance so

you really have to force your body to

burn fat by reducing these carbs is far

down to zero as possible okay especially

the ones that turn the sugar so grains

will just block any chance of losing

weight and that also includes some fruit

as well so we’re going to keep fruit

down as well so we have grains we have

low fat but it’s so funny how people say

well you can eat you can have all these

great foods but just add grains well

that’s enough to block any chance of

losing weight in plus there’s very low

amounts of nutrition in grains now

yogurt there there’s some great calcium

so that’s a little bit higher okay but

grains are low grains are out okay fish

look at this ninety-three percent

protein oh my goodness that is a very

good fat burner and look at how many

carbohydrates 0 huge ability to burn fat

but again the principles there’s layers

of complexity you have also too much

protein so you wouldn’t want necessarily

live on protein or have like 12 ounces

per meal because that can also bog down

the liver all the fat burning hormones

that come through the body go through

the liver so we need that keep that

liver opened up and healthy and then if

we’re burning fat

we better consume a lot of vegetables

because if you don’t all the fat that

you are burning ends up in the liver and

stuck in the liver and you end up with a

fatty liver that’s why a lot of the

Atkins diet people or the high protein

diet people end up with the fatty liver

and that’s why their breath is kind of

toxic and so we want to understand the

whole picture so fish look at this

7% fat I mean that’s a low stress on

your liver and people I say what’s the

best proteins for for the body well we

what will be the best protein to lessen

the stress on your liver fish would be

great seafood would be even better so

those are very low liver stress proteins

now animal protein 59% protein that’s

pretty high but look at 0% carb so

animal protein will also help you burn

fat but look it out much higher it is in

fat so again if you’re going to do

animal protein you better enhance the

vegetables to clean out that fat but you

know what you could probably get away

with if you were to consume just fish

because this is low in protein I’m sorry

fat you pretty much can get away with

eating mostly fish if there’s small

amounts of fish through the day because

it’s not going to be stress on your

liver or your pancreas it’ll put you in

some hardcore fat burning and then

there’s different types of fish too like

halibut is higher in fat this is cod cod

is low in fat but of course it’s you

have to make it taste good

alright so now we have kale 16% protein

Wow that’s actually more than nuts it’s

more than hummus and it’s more than

grains wow there’s protein and count

what do you know but look at how high it

is in carbohydrate 72% but none of this

just turns into sugar very fast so it’s

low glycemic it’s high in fiber and it’s

in soluble fiber so your digestion is

going to not break that down into direct

sugar so it takes a lot of energy to

break that down so you’re going to hate

you it’s kind of like you’re going to

burn more fat just breaking the stuff

down and then of course 15%

but these are healthy fats these are

omega-3 fats omega-6 fats so it’s pretty

low in fat and so it is you can see it’s

screaming high with nutrients so we have

the perfect food right here kale all

right now look at eggs 29% protein you

would think that would be higher in

protein but it’s not very high in

protein but it’s not very low in protein

very low in carbs oh so eggs also are

going to help you lose weight because

look at that carb is only 2% and we have

a lot of nutrition as well but it’s very

high in fat so eggs are fine but they

could stress a liver a little bit if

you’re not having enough vegetable all

right so I hope I clarified some of the

confusions about protein you might want

to watch this several times take some

notes so apply the information and we

will see you in the next video