A six-week trial found no significant differences in pro-inflammatory cytokines or gut inflammation markers between high-plant protein and high-animal protein diets.

“in this trial they had 37 participants and they gave one group a diet that was high in plant protein and another group a diet that was high in animal protein both groups had the same macros which were 30% protein 40% carbohydrates and 30% fat and at the end of six weeks they looked at many markers so they looked at pro-inflammatory adipic Ines which are camerin and pro granule in they looked at cytokines including TNF alpha il-6 and others which are esoteric tgf-beta 1 etc etc they looked at markers of gut inflammation including calprotectin and other inflammatory proteins including lactoferrin and growth differentiation factor 15 now what do we think that showed at the end of this basically they actually found that camerin and pro granule in concentrations decreased following both diets tgf-beta 1 increased in animal protein decreased in plant protein though that was not significant whereas calprotectin increased in plant protein and decreased in animal protein that was also not significant but it was much closer and there were no statistically significant differences in the concentrations of interleukin 6 TNF alpha soup R which is the soluble euro kinase type plasminogen activator receptor lactoferrin gdf 15 could be seen in any of the other arms so if you look at the data for this study basically there were no significant differences between the two groups in the animal protein group there was a trend toward increased tgf-beta 1 in the plant protein group there was a trend toward increased calprotectin but neither of those were significant and the rest of the markers were not different between them”