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Animal meat and organs also contain many nutrients (let’s call them zoonutrients) that are very difficult or impossible to obtain from plants: carnitine, choline, carnosine, anserine, taurine, B12, K2(the full spectrum of menaquinones), creatine, riboflavin and unique peptides.
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what am I talking about I'm talking about things like choline choline is a precursor for a neurotransmitter acetylcholine it's needed to make every membrane in the human body and it's only found in significant amounts in animal foods I'm talking about carnitine and anserine and taurine these are all amino acid derivatives that are only found in significant amounts in animal foods and these are intimately tied to the health and robustness of our immune system and the list goes on and on creatine carnosine b12 people will be familiar with that vitamin k2 these are all critical nutrients that humans need to be healthy and guess what you can't get them in any significant amount unless you're eating well raised animal foods
meat and organs are the most nutritious foods on the planet they have all these unique nutrients that we can't get other places i've talked about this many times in the past answering taurine choline carnitine k2 etc creatine super beneficial for humans makes us smarter if you don't eat it
the meat and the organs are where there's so many unique nutrients that and we don't even know about nutrient deficiencies of things like taurine or creatine they're not even really quantifying that we have such an elementary rudimentary understanding of this nutrition
that's just the first one we've got carnosine carnitine anserine taurine vitamin K2 B12 the list is so long
I think the easiest way is just to eat some meat
So, I'm talking about nutrients like torine, uh, which is really only found in meat and is especially found in red meat and organs and especially rich in heart. Um, it's partially degraded by cooking, but we still get some when we cook our meat. And I mean torine has been studied across species and found to be associated with longevity. So you can also look at co-enzyme Q10, vitamin B12, uh creatine, uh vitamin K2. All of these nutrients are uniquely found in meat.