Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Today, we're going to talk about why consuming fatter meat is much easier to digest than consuming

lean meat.

And this could be why people have a much easier time digesting hamburger versus a leaner

steak.

They may say that they have a problem digesting red meat, but in fact, it could just

be that the red meat that they're consuming is too lean.

Now, if you're going to consume ground beef, don't consume the 90 percent when it's very,

very lean.

Get the ground beef, that's like 70 to 80 percent, so you have more fat.

If you could, make sure that it's grass fat and organic, that would be the ideal situation.

Now it is true ground beef has more surface area for the enzymes in the acid to help you

break it down, but the big reason why it's easier to digest fatter hamburger meat is because

of the fat.

The more fat that is in that protein, the more delayed the digestion.

So it sits in your small intestine longer for the enzymes to do their work to help you digest

that protein and the fat.

If that protein is leaner, it goes through the digestive tract much faster.

So that's really the simplicity of why you should digest that of your protein.

Now, another point I want to bring up about digesting protein, I do recommend, as you

get older, to start to add the pain, how to chloride to your meals, take like two to

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