Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

The coronavirus pandemic has made many of us very aware of the importance of maintaining and improving our health.

Make that your silver lining.

Because the more positive change we can make to our diet lifestyle, the better.

Today we have a special edition of Nutrition Facts Q&A where I answer a wide variety of your questions live on YouTube.

Today we cover how much protein is too little. Can you od on nitric oxide boosting foods?

And where in the world is my treadmill? I hope you enjoy it.

I see the question is pouring in. Let us jump through them.

Courtney asks, are lectins really bad for you?

And so this question arrives because there's a book called Plant Paradox by Dr. Steve Gundry.

And I did a whole series of videos about the book, the first video of which is Dr. Gundry is wrong.

So it gives you a sense of direction I'm going.

But talk about the pros and cons of lectins basically. Don't need to worry about your lectins.

Some lectins are harmful and destroyed by proper cooking, others are harmless, and others may actually be beneficial.

Alright, next question is Nicole Alisa. How much protein is too little?

Less than pointed grants for health and care, I'm going to body weight a day.

Now of course the estimated average requirements are more like 0.6, but that gets like half the bell curve.

You want to get more than half the bell curve.

So pointed grants for health and care, I would try to hit that.

Okay, a dream merchant says, do I still recommend only using USP verified supplements?

So USP is a third party certification company.

The supplement companies can pay to do kind of independent random checks to make sure, and this is their sole job,

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