If you're replace some of the foods that you're eating with something that is more nutrient-dense in protein, high-quality protein, you're going to get leaner because consuming the protein actually requires more calories to burn it because the protein stimulates this protein synthesis

and it gets used throughout the body in these ways that help you rebuild all your proteins

It's actually like it makes you burn calories in order to perform that.

One of my favorite things about my job as a holistic nutritionist and functional medicine practitioner

is I get to change my mind. I graduated in 2008 and to see

the ideas that I had around nutrition, health, everything is so different from today and I'm so thankful that I am able to

though it is hard sometimes let me tell you to like drop down be humble humble, drop my ego,

and truly listen to colleagues, clients, my body,

friends, and truly, truly listen

to what people are experiencing, it always comes with a shift in perspective

which helps me be better at my job. And it's hard. And I've had to multiple times go out to the

public and say,

hey, so like, you know, when I said,

moderate your protein on a ketogenic diet,

well, yeah, I was wrong.

I don't think we should moderate it.

I think it should be high.

I think it should almost, in most cases, be higher than high I think it should almost in most cases be higher than

fat surprise it sucks in some ways but it's so awesome and others and so today

we're going to be talking about protein. The

building blocks of protein are amino acids. There are essential amino acids,

non-essential amino acids. We're going to be talking about why it is absolutely imperative to hit

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