Hey, everybody. Welcome to Red Pillar Healthcast. My name is Dr. Charlie Faganholz, and I am here with

Lauren Johnson, your favorite nurse. And we are going to talk about meat today. And there's a lot of

confusion around meat. There's a lot of people who, a lot of people trusted prior to 2020 that are pushing this fake meat.

And so we want to dive in about meat and then about the alternatives that you're seeing that you already know in your gut are not good.

We're just going to make sure that you know why it's not good.

And then also help you understand like how you can reintroduce meat too. I don't think we

discussed that beforehand, but we should also talk about that. That's a good one. I'm going to

make a notes that we do that. Because that is one thing that I find is really hard for

vegans or vegetarians to really increase their meat intake because it

doesn't make them feel that good initially because they haven't eaten it in years. But there's a

reason why. And we can talk about that and things that do that might be that might help you

with that. Absolutely. So I'm going to talk a little bit first about my experience when I first started taking functional and frequency medicine classes.

And the very first seminar that got me thinking about this was one called TBM. And it's a technique that on day one, they go over diet and nutrition.

And the first two things they say, they start out this summer by saying, your patients will come in with two issues, every single one of them.

They're going to be dehydrated and they're going to have a blood sugar issue.

And that is because they have a protein deficiency.

And we can get into, Lauren and I have talked about if you're not digesting your

protein, that is a huge deal, obviously.

But we want to talk about actually getting enough protein in this episode.

And so TBM, my first technique I ever learned, essentially, the people who practice straight TBM will not see a patient

if they don't eat at least nine ounces of rare, rare red meat each week. If you do not do that,

they will not see you as a patient. That's how obsessed they are with stabilizing your blood sugar.

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