Protein Is Not a Protein

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today, I want to clear up some confusion around protein.

Typically, the minimum amount of protein a person needs is 50 grams. You might think that if you consume a beef steak that’s 100 grams or 3.5 ounces, you’re getting double the amount of protein you need for the day.

However, there is a difference between the weight of a steak and the amount of protein in the steak. For example, a steak that weighs 100 grams only contains 26 grams of protein. This is because steak also contains fat and water.

Proteins also vary in amino acids. We don’t even really have a daily requirement for protein—we actually have a daily requirement for amino acids in the protein. The problem lies in the quality of protein or the bioavailable acids in the food you eat.

While some plants have protein, animal sources are a better option for protein than plant sources. Also, know that many infant formulas and foods for toddlers are loaded with soy protein and other plant proteins that can cause problems with digestion.

Foods high in protein:

1. Breast milk

2. Eggs

3. Meat

4. Chicken

5. Dairy

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0:00.0	You know, a protein is not really a protein.
0:03.5	Now, what am I talking about?
0:04.5	A protein is not a protein.
0:06.8	There's a few confusions related to this topic that I want to clear up because I keep running
0:12.0	into them over and over and over.
0:14.2	The first one relates to protein requirements, okay?
0:18.4	So typically, the minimum requirement of protein that you need per day on average it's
0:24.0	like 50 grams now the formula for that which can cause this number to vary is like 0.8 to 1 gram of
0:32.3	protein per your kilogram weight your body weight here's where the confusion lies. Let's take a beef steak.
0:42.3	You get 100 grams of this beef steak, which is about 3.5 ounces. And so here you are going to eat the steak,
0:51.3	100 grams, and you're thinking, thinking wow i'm getting double the amount that
0:56.6	i really need right now because there's two things we have the weight of the steak okay and then you have
1:03.0	the amount of protein in the steak two different things because the actual protein in that beef is only
1:09.6	26 grams not 100 grams and now you're saying well wait a second
1:13.3	i thought it's kind of just pure protein isn't it like no there's some fat in there and the rest of it
1:21.1	is not carbs the rest of it is mainly water okay water weight that's what it is so It has a lot of water weight in it. This is why when
1:28.4	you freeze dry a steak, it's like paper. It's really light. But the point is, when you're
1:33.0	dealing with these protein requirements, we're not talking about the actual weight of the food.
1:38.5	We're talking about the protein in that food. So that's clarification number one. The next confusion and very important thing to know
1:47.2	is that one protein varies with other proteins in the amount of amino acids that they have as far as
1:57.6	the quality and the ratios. So in other words, we really don't have a requirement
2:04.0	for protein at all.
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