344: Goldilocks Zone for Protein with Stephan Cabral
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 30 January 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Most people believe that carbs give you energy, fat makes you fat, and protein builds muscles - but this is not how the body works. In fact, we metabolize macronutrients very differently - often counter-intuitively - and it's important to understand the hormonal impact of food as you attempt to find balance.
Too much protein can be just as problematic as too many carbs but how do you know how much is too much? What are some baseline measurements you can use in your own life? My guest on this week's podcast, Stephen Cabral, ND, will make this easy to understand.
Listen & Learn:
- Risks, rewards, and reality of keto diets
- Why protein is harder to digest
- How 0.8 grams of protein per kg of body weight is usually ideal
- Why too much protein creates too much IGF-1 that can feed cancer
- Ectomorph/Vata: lean and long, difficulty building muscle
- Endomorph/Kapha: higher body fat, often pear-shaped, gain muscle and fat easily
- Mesomorph/Pitta: muscular and well-built, high metabolism, responsive muscle cells
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ABOUT THE HOST
Stephen Cabral is a board-certified naturopathic doctor with post-doctoral specialties in Ayurvedic and functional medicine. He and his team have completed more than 250,000 client appointments. He is a podcaster himself at the Cabral Concept and is the author of The Rain Barrel Effect and A Man's Guide to Muscle and Strength.
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| 0:00.0 | When people start to analyze their diet and their nutrition, inevitably they start to |
| 0:08.7 | look at fats, carbs and protein and carbs are generally vilified and fat is generally thought of as body |
| 0:15.2 | fat and protein is usually hailed as the super macro nutrient but the reality is |
| 0:19.7 | we need all of them we need fats and we need proteins we need carbs and we need them in a balance in a way that helps |
| 0:24.9 | us create metabolic health in a way that helps us to grow and heal. It's really difficult to find |
| 0:30.6 | balance and right now, due to a couple of trends in diets and in fitness and |
| 0:36.6 | publishing and things like that a lot of people are really loading up on too much |
| 0:40.2 | protein and while that doesn't initially sound like a bad thing and in fact in the |
| 0:43.9 | short term it might not even be a bad thing in in months it might not be a bad thing but |
| 0:48.4 | over years the effects of super elevated protein can actually be pretty detrimental and if you're dealing with any |
| 0:55.0 | kind of degenerative illness it could be a really big problem. |
| 0:58.6 | On this week's show we'll talk about finding the Goldilocks zone for protein, meaning the zone that works best for you and your body and |
| 1:05.8 | hope clear up some of the some of the confusion in and around animal versus |
| 1:09.6 | plant-based proteins correct levels based on your body, and your training. I hope you find |
| 1:14.4 | this useful. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback there, always most welcome. |
| 1:17.9 | Email me podcast at yoga body.com. So hello and welcome and welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show. |
| 1:27.0 | Today's show is called the Goldilocks Zone for Protein and I am joined here with |
| 1:31.7 | Stephen Cabral naturopathic doctor. |
| 1:34.0 | Stephen's a board certified naturopathic doctor. He has postdoctoral studies in |
| 1:38.2 | Ayurveda and functional medicine. He and his team have completed more than |
| 1:41.8 | 250,000 client appointments, which is kind of a shockingly huge number. |
| 1:46.0 | He's a podcaster himself. Check out his podcast. It's called The Cabral Concept, |
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