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E1 Ask Dr Hazel: Are protein shakes bad for me?

The Food Medic

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Hey team, and welcome back to Ask Dr Hazel, our mini episodes that drop each week.This week we cover protein shakes and whether they’re good for you despite all the additives, flavourings and sweeteners added to make them taste like chocolate etc?Thank you to everyone who has sent in questions already and if you would like to submit a question to the podcast - on any topic related to health, fitness, nutrition, or mindset - please send your voice recorded question to lindsay@thefoodmedic.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:04.0

Not much to it, is there?

0:06.0

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:10.0

Mmm, that is good.

0:13.0

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:16.0

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:18.0

Delicious.

0:20.0

Hey team and welcome back to Ask Dr. Hazel, our mini episode series that will be dropping

0:27.4

throughout this season just like the last.

0:30.2

I'm your host, Dr. Hazel, and I'll be answering all your burning questions.

0:34.4

Thank you to everyone who's submitted your questions already.

0:36.8

And if you would like to

0:38.3

submit a question to the podcast for your chance to be featured, please send your voice

0:42.2

recorded questions to Lindsay at thefoodmedic.com.com. Okay, so let's hear from today's listener question.

0:50.0

Hi, food medic team. My question is, are protein shakes good for you despite all of the additives,

0:55.9

sweeteners and flavourings put into them to make them taste like chocolate and salted caramel

0:59.7

and all sorts of things like that. Okay, so are protein shakes good for you? Now, protein shakes

1:06.2

are neither good nor bad for you. It really depends on whether you need them or not. So the truth is that very

1:13.8

few people need protein shakes in their diet and usually a well-balanced diet will be enough to get

1:20.3

all the protein that you need. So just to chat a little bit about protein powders, they're usually

1:25.4

made of weight protein, casein, egg,

1:29.0

soy or another plant-based protein such as pea, brown rice and hemp, or sometimes there's a

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