Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, you can't talk about how healthy red meat is completely out of the context in which it's eaten.

Right.

If someone's eating red meat in the context of big Macs and fast food and hot dogs and things like that, do we really think that that's going to have the same impact as someone eating a paleo diet where two thirds or three quarters of their plate is vegetables and plants?

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Hi, I'm Kaya Perouet, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy. The question of whether or not eating meat is good for our health has become incredibly controversial.

But as with all other foods, focusing on quality more than quantity is the key to creating good health.

Yet this is a focus missing from many big dietary studies. Dr Hyman recently discussed this topic as well as how grass-fed beef is different from conventionally raised beef with functional medicine practitioner Chris Cresser.

We're so obsessed with food quantity and the quantity of macronutrients and the quantity of specific foods like red meat or saturated fat or cholesterol.

It comes from our reductionist paradigm and you are a functional medicine guy. I'm a functional medicine guy. We understand the importance of looking at things from a systems approach.

So what if we instead focused on food quality instead of food quantity? You can't talk about how healthy red meat is completely out of the context in which it's eaten.

If someone's eating red meat in the context of big Macs and fast food and hot dogs and things like that, do we really think that that's going to have the same impact as someone eating a paleo diet where two thirds or three quarters of their plate is vegetables and plants and then they have a steak.

It's absolutely not the same and yet in the research it shows up as the same. And then in the end of the year, they looked at vegetarians and meat eaters who shot at health food stores.

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