Optimizing Protein Intake: Are Plant-Based Meats Enough?
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Protein helps repair and build your body's tissues, keep your immune system strong, and transport and store nutrients. Since it's critical to your health, it's important to know how to optimize your protein intake. Are animal-based foods superior to plant-based foods? Can you obtain all the nutrients you need from only plant-based foods? Nutrition scientist Dr. Stephan van Vliet shares the latest research findings that provide answers to these questions.
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| 0:30.6 | The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or |
| 0:36.0 | treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information |
| 0:39.6 | without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, welcome back to |
| 0:47.0 | Dr. Russo Radio. This is Dr. Michael Russo, and today I spoke with Dr. Stefan van Vlut, and we went |
| 0:54.0 | into this topic further of animal protein versus plant-based |
| 1:00.2 | protein, specifically with some unpacking of not only can one obtain adequate protein through plant-based sources? |
| 1:12.8 | But we also looked at the difference in metabolites and nutrition in animal-based protein |
| 1:22.0 | as compared to a diet center around plant-based protein. |
| 1:26.6 | And further went into if label claims from plant-based meat alternatives are accurate, |
| 1:38.3 | or in this case, as we'll cover, there's actually apparently been a lawsuit brought against Beyond Beef. And as an aside, |
| 1:45.8 | nothing here is trying to vilify any food or food group or food substitute, but we are trying to |
| 1:53.3 | bring you the most accurate information possible. We also go into nutrient density in plant-based versus animal-based foods. |
| 2:03.1 | And a few of the, I think, conclusions that we can take away is the most important thing is to focus on non-or minimally processed foods as one benchmark that is going to allow many of the second order effects to be what we want them to be. |
| 2:22.3 | If you are someone who's a population vulnerable or more vulnerable for nutritional deficiencies, |
| 2:31.4 | young, elderly, and pregnant, This is where paying attention to your |
| 2:36.4 | protein intake matters. It can still be done on a plant-based diet. However, it seems to be |
| 2:43.7 | more difficult. And there does seem to be a superiority of nutrient density from animal-based foods. But again, |
| 2:54.7 | it wouldn't mean that this healthy diet that we're aiming for could not be achieved with |
| 3:00.8 | a sort of mixing and matching or even perhaps a reliance exclusively on plant-based foods. |
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