Humans are apex predators, top of the food chain. What other apex predator eats salad? There are things in meat that you have to have that you cannot get from plants, but there is nothing in plants, or fungus, that you have to have that you cannot get from meat. So you have to eat meat, and you certainly don't have to eat plants and I would argue that you don't want to eat plants for optimal health.
from allfat.ca. The above clip is taken from this June 2023 interview of Perth, Western Australia (WA) doctor, Anthony Chaffee.
01:28. In fact it's difficult to heal and repair your body without animal protein, especially red meat and today I'm going to prove it in past videos I have talked about eggs and I eat a lot of eggs and eggs are awesome but if we compare eggs to me there is some significant differences and that's what I want to talk about.
01:48. Lots of benefits from having salmon and fish which I have once or twice a week salmon and sardines are very high in Omega-3 which is good, but red meat or beef has more protein and has a lot of other things that can help you heal. If we look at the whole picture, I will say out of all the things that are involved in the healing and repair process, we need amino acids. We need bioavailable protein, which is going to be animal protein and we need concentrated protein.
WHICH IS HEALTHIER, RED MEAT OR EGGS?
If we just compare red meat to eggs,
Red meat is twice as concentrated in amino acids.
Red meat has 1.5 times greater iron.
Red meat has 2.2x greater magnesium.
Beef has 3.7 times greater amounts of zinc.
Red meat has 50 times more vitamin B3 than eggs.
Red meat has double the amount of B1.
Beef has 4 times the amount of B6.
Red meat has twice the amount of B12.
Beef has 4 times the amount of vitamin K.
Red meat has 5 times the amount of omega-3 fatty acids.
So the ratios of red meat are going to be better. Not processed meat from factory farms things like deli meats bologna Etc he's talking about grass-fed beef.
Beef compared to chickens that are pasture-raised, the chickens are still fed grains, which kind of throws off the Omega-3 to Omega-6 ratios. That being said eggs are also a good source of protein. As a side note, beef liver has 73 times more vitamin A than eggs.
03:22 Another nutrient that eggs have that is better than beef is choline. Eggs have a little more than double the amount of B2.
12x more folate than in beef.
Beef has the X Factor, 4 X-Factors actually.
X-FACTOR #1: CARNITINE. Carnitine helps transport fats into your cells, into the energy Factory called the mitochondria to help you get more energy. Without carnitine, the cells can't get energy from fat. Carnitine gives you that quick energy when you're exercising and since we're talking about a really important transport of fuel to the mitochondria that is essential for healing and repair of your tissues, not only do we need all the essential amino acids as the raw material we also need other things like those vitamins.
If we compare 100 G of red meat to 100 G of eggs, the amount of carnitine would be 150 mg versus only 7 mg for eggs.
Lamb is #1 when it comes to carnitine content. Beef is #2.
X-FACTOR #2: CREATINE. Creatine gives us that quick energy.
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