According to the media, eating protein damages your arteries.

Here's a sensational post from the Newark Post titled,

You Might Be Eating an Artery damaging amount of protein,

new study warns.

In today's show, we're going to break down the findings and the actual outcomes of this particular study and look at how investigators sought to ascertain whether or not low versus high amounts of protein increase the process known as

atherosclerosis or the clogging of your arteries. The title of this

particular analysis that was published just yesterday the 20th of February

in nature metabolism which I consider to be a high impact

journal nature has nature endocrinology nature obesity there's a lot of great

nature journals and nature sub-journalists of nature I should say. So here is the title here, identification

of a leucine-mediated threshold effect

governing macrophage emptor signaling

and cardiovascular risk.

Okay, so there's a lot of multisyllabic jargonistic terms in here. Let's just quickly

talk about what is M. Tor signaling. M. Tor is the acronym for a kinase known as

mechanistic target of rapamycin, which as many of you know is the

kindase known as mechanistic target of rapomycin which as many of you know is a pro-growth

pathway within the body. Some people like to make the assertion that m. Tor

is bad and therefore suppressing m. Tor is always favorable.

But really what we would like is periodic ebbs and flows in M.Tore signaling

such as after a meal, which is quite curious

because in this particular study,

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