Studies normalizing for fruit and vegetable intake show no difference in early mortality between high and low protein consumers.

“people are looking at you know vegetarians are taking in lower amounts of protein and they're all cause mortality and they're cancer mortality and they just study after study after study and they have a lower all-cause mortality lower cancer mortality but but only in those individuals who are not obese not sedentary sorry are sedentary are smoking or you know they had some unhealthy lifestyle Factor so in other words the people taking in higher protein animal protein uh who were basically healthy had a similar cancer-related mortality all-cause mortality as these vegetarians”