Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. My name is Patrick Cummings. I'm here, as

always, an EC Sinkowski. Every week on the show, we aim to simplify the principles and practices

of nutrition, health, and fitness. Thank you for tuning into the show. Hello, EC. How are you?

Great. How are you? Lovely. This week is we're going to explore whether all protein is created equal. I want to examine if

animal protein specifically truly offer superior quality compared to other protein sources.

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I already see.

Let's do a quick bit of background on why we are talking about protein and specifically

animal protein this time around. Yeah, I do think it's pretty widely accepted on the internet anyway,

that, you know, this idea that animal protein is always better. And in combination kind of with

some studies that I look at weekly about the new research that's coming out that I've kind of seen, as well as like stuff that I see on the internet.

For example, Dr. Mark Hyman, who, yes, a well-known MD doctor, but he focuses on functional medicine.

He's got a huge following.

He says some really wacky nutrition advice.

But he had a recent post as well. That's kind of like animal protein is always better. So I think it kind of just was like, yeah, let's actually address this as, you know, is animal protein better, especially for building muscle, which of course our audience is always interested in. Yes, of course. Okay, so we're going to use that Instagram post kind of as a launching pad for some of these ideas.

Yes?

Let's do it.

All right.

So I believe we've got three claims inside of a short Instagram post.

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