Meat Myths: Truth, Lies and Flawed Science – Autumn Smith : 950
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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…you’ll learn how eating meat benefits human health, including protein specifics and the clear advantages of regenerative agriculture.
Today’s guest suffered from debilitating digestive issues and crippling anxiety for most of her life. Specialist after specialist told Autumn Smith nothing could be done to alleviate her physical and mental health distress.
As a last-ditch effort, she turned to the power of whole foods. She cleaned up her diet with Paleo-inspired eating and improved her gut in just 30 days. The changes also decreased her anxiety, increased her mental sharpness, and discovered her inner vibrancy. That experience propelled Autumn to help others capture the power of whole foods through quality food products produced by regenerative agricultural practices.
In 2013, she and her husband, Chas, along with another family member and friend, launched Paleovalley. They built a company dedicated to helping people get essential nutrients without added sugars, grains, and other harmful ingredients. With meat being the central focus of their business, they set out to learn all they could about production and regenerative farming.
In 2018, they launched Wild Pastures, a regenerative meat delivery service, and recently opened Wild Pastures Burger Company, their flagship fast casual burger restaurant in Boulder, Colorado.
This conservation gets into the problems with current methods of animal agriculture and possible solutions. You’ll find out more about the nutritional differences of animal products depending on how they’re raised. Autumn says meat labels can be tricky, too, so she breaks down the jargon and tells you what to look for and what to avoid.
Autumn advocates for meat’s many advantages and works to dispel the myths that continue to persist about meat consumption. From soil to farming to raising animals humanely, building community and managing economies, Autumn talks about how to make choices that are right for you and everything around you.
More about Autumn Smith: Autumn holds a master’s in Holistic Nutrition and currently is a doctoral candidate in Holistic Nutrition. She’s a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, an Eating Psychology Coach certified by the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, and received Soil Advocacy Training by Kiss The Ground. She hosts the popular Optimize Paleo podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:04.2 | Formerly, bulletproof radio. |
| 0:09.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:15.8 | And today, we are going to talk about meat, you know, because it's good for you and because |
| 0:22.8 | fake meat is bad for you. |
| 0:24.6 | There, that was a whole episode. |
| 0:25.7 | Okay. |
| 0:26.7 | Maybe there's a little bit more to it than that. |
| 0:29.4 | So we're going to talk about really, honestly, why I was a raw vegan. |
| 0:35.9 | And we're going to talk about what negative things happened to me as a result of that very, |
| 0:40.8 | very early, that was around 2004, actually, when I did that. |
| 0:46.1 | Why it harmed me, why it is harming huge numbers of people, especially young people who don't |
| 0:50.8 | feel the deficiencies as soon as it would, even if they were 30. |
| 0:55.8 | And what protein does to you and why different proteins are not the same. |
| 0:59.4 | It's like, I'm on a solid diet, which means I eat bricks all the time, right? |
| 1:03.2 | Like, no, like different proteins and different things and plant-based protein doesn't mean |
| 1:07.5 | anything. |
| 1:08.5 | Even animal-based protein doesn't mean anything because I promise you that's not as |
| 1:11.6 | an animal-based protein and you don't want to eat that, right? |
| 1:13.9 | Like, it's meaningless. |
| 1:15.4 | So we're going to teach you some real serious things about it, including the environmental |
| 1:19.2 | effect of grass-fed meat and what it does for a gender-evaculterum. |
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