What Would Happen If You Ate Plant-Based Meat for 2 Weeks

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about plant-based meat. Plant-based meat is marketed as clean meat. People are gravitating to these fake meats because of claims that real meat causes cancer and other chronic diseases.

The studies that were used to draw these conclusions were food questionnaires and observational studies. Out of 800 studies on the topic, researchers claiming that meat was bad only focused on 17.

An evaluation of the studies linking red meat to cancer by the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded that the evidence linking red meat consumption to cancer and cardiovascular disease is too weak to recommend that we eat less of it.

New guidelines say we don't need to change our meat habits. No significant link between meat consumption and heart disease, diabetes, or cancer has been found.

Plant-based meat is full of ultra-processed ingredients like seed oils, soy, modified food starches, and GMO ingredients. Claims that plant-based meat is identical to real meat are completely false. Metabolomic studies have shown key differences in 171 out of 190 compounds in fake meat compared to real meat.

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0:00.0	Today we're going to discuss what would happen if you actually ate the plant-based
0:03.9	meats for about two weeks. What's interesting is that plant-based meats
0:10.8	are positioned as clean meats, right?
0:13.6	Environmental friendly.
0:15.3	Why in the world when anyone want to eat fake made
0:17.9	in the first place?
0:19.2	Well, because we all know that regular meat causes cancer.
0:23.2	That's right.
0:24.2	I want to do a little deep dive on the science of that.
0:26.8	First of all, the studies relied exclusively
0:29.6	on food questionnaires and observational studies. Out of 800 articles that they looked at, they only focused on 17. In other words, they left out 783 of these articles.
0:43.4	But what was very interesting about this topic,
0:46.0	there was a new group that did an update evaluation
0:51.0	on all the research regarding the relationship between red meat and cancer and they came up with a slightly different conclusion.
0:58.0	So this is by the annuals of internal medicine and they were about to post several studies showing the
1:03.2	evidence linking red meat consumption to cardiovascular disease and cancer is
1:07.8	too weak to recommend that we eat less of it. I mean this is based on five systematic
1:11.9	reviews on the most comprehensive review of
1:15.2	evidence that's out there and four were randomized control studies on red meat and
1:19.9	health and the fifth showed the health value of red meat.
1:24.0	So the new guidelines basically says that we don't need to change our meat
1:28.0	habits, no significant link to meat consumption, heart disease,
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