Paul Saladino· MD
Red meat is GOOD for you. Replacing grain based carbohydrates with 200g of red meat resulted in LOWER levels of inflammation in an 8 week interventional trial in humans.
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Red meat is GOOD for you. Replacing grain based carbohydrates with 200g of red meat resulted in LOWER levels of inflammation in an 8 week interventional trial in humans.
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increased lean mean lean red meat doesn't intake does not elevate markers of oxidative stress and inflammation in humans I mean you can see it in the title I'm not sure what else we need to say other than that this is interventional data right this is not epidemiology this is interventional data and this was an interventional study done over the course of six weeks with its eight weeks sixty participants and what happened in this study this was so fascinating they ate an extra half pound of meat per day replacing carbohydrates so this is this is like carnivore ish trend maybe that's a little too much to say but they're increasing red meat decreasing plant foods and at the end of eight weeks what happens they said relative to control red meat resulted in higher protein percent of energy lower carbohydrate percentage energy higher iron intakes and lower f2i so prostate excretion lower leukocyte counts and trends for lower c-reactive protein concentrations
there have been studies in which they decrease the amount of carbohydrates in someone's diet this is an interventional study and they increase the amount of red meat in this study it was eight ounces more per day so half a pound more red meat per day which is a pretty significant amount of red meat for most people and they follow them longitudinally so they're doing an experiment and they look 4 6 8 12 weeks later what do they find insulin resistance gets better diabetes gets better inflammatory markers go down DNA damage doesn't increase
they ate their usual diet or they replace energy from carbohydrate which rich foods with 200 grams per day of lean red meat in I so energetic diets so they ate 200 grams that's half a pound of red meat per day in place of carbohydrates and what did they find after they measured stress ox stress and inflammation they found that the red meat resulted in lower levels of inflammatory markers a trend for lower c-reactive protein concentrations and no differences in concentrations of f2 eisah prostates saram amyloid A or plasma fibrinogen
in this study there were which is an eight-week parallel design the participants replaced energy from carbohydrates with 200 grams of red meat in their diet and they found a trend for lower c-reactive protein and no differences in the concentrations of s2 f2 isoprostanes serum amyloid a or plasma fibrinogen
increasing 60 participants eight week parallel study design they are decreasing carbohydrates and increasing red meat by eight ounces per day this is a significant amount of red meat by many perspectives and they had lower amounts of f2i suppressing the excretion lower crp and overall improved markers of insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity
i'll show a very clear study showing increased lean red meat does not elevate markers of oxidative stress and inflammation in humans this is the study i mentioned earlier so this is increasing 60 participants eight week parallel study design they are decreasing carbohydrates and increasing red meat by eight ounces
You never see a study that says replacing 200 grams of carbohydrates from grains every day with eight ounces of lean red meat leads to decreased inflammatory markers but that's a published study from 2016.
either replacing grain-based carbohydrates with 8 ounces of red meat for 8 weeks or giving diabetics High animal protein or high plant protein diets for 6 weeks and neither of these previous trials found any increase in oxidative stress when participants were eating diets heavy in red meat and animal protein