This Is What Everyone Gets Wrong About Protein! | Dr. Zach Bush

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Protein is the most overemphasized and overconsumed macronutrient in the American diet, but for reasons that may surprise you. In less than an hour, Dr. Zach Bush will bust the protein myth — because your health depends on it.

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[walkyrie]

lol I remember as a kid growing up in the 60s in Holland, we had meat but not lots of it. Had a piece of chicken on a Sunday, had horse steak on a saturday and meatballs/ beef weekdays as that was cheap. Having a paper cone with chips from the local chippie was a treat. Candy hardly existed there was a very limited choice. Same with crisps. We were active all day long, we didn't have mobiles or laptops or internet. You met people and you communicated in person or over the telephone. Life was a lot simpler for sure. I pity these generations now growing up with all the crap around us. And no one bothered about proteines or vitamines. Yet we were all healthy and slim and the veg had nutrients in them. Even the bread had nutrients compared to today :)

[amypelino]

That was interesting. But I’ve been a vegan and a vegetarian for 2 years of my life and I was at my worst. It wasn’t until I found a guy named Dr. Eric Berg and d started following a healthy ketogenic diet and eat once or twice a day. And I’ve never felt better and it’s been 4 years now. I agree completely about overconsumption and how corrupt agriculture has become. And part of the reason I went Vegan in the first place was because of spirituality and love and concern for the earth. But I don’t think eliminating all animal products from your diet is the answer. And I get tired of the judgements around people who do eat meat or fish that somehow they’re lacking Concsiousness or spiritual awareness. It’s simply not true. I think different people require different things. And some people do well on vegan diets and others don’t. And part of having a healthy body is to stop eating constantly we’re not meant to eat every 3 hours of our life. It’s about paying attention to the needs of your body. If I started eating beans, lentils and grains and potatoes I’d blow up and I’d constantly be hungry. It’s a horrible way to live, I’ve been there and done it. There definitely needs to be a regenerative agriculture push and elimination of the standard American diet and a stop to corporate farming and processed foods. But I don’t think making the entire planet vegan is the way to go.

[megiMove]

I've been an athlete all my life and tried all different diets.. i tried being a veggie as well with my wife, but i tried bringing back meat again and I've never felt better. Stabile. Energy is good and stable. I eat meat, fruits, kefir, honey, eggs and little cheese. Sometimes i can carb up before long run or heavy metcons with white rice. This just feels good. After over 20years of training u start to intuitive what is good and not.

[beardumaw]

Slowly switching to a organic plant based diet not vegetarian or not vegan but plant-based with wild caught salmon 3 times a week pasture-raised eggs a few times a week and pasture-raised meats a few times a week. I feel better with this diet.

[kathleennotestone]

I’ve always loved Zack Bush. Still do. However I must weigh in here. I was vegetarian for decades. I ended up with lots of problems from oxalate and Phytates etc. Could barely move my fingers elbows an shoulders my search led
Me to carnivore diet. In only 4 months. All joint pain gone and fingers not sticking bent over! Also. My receding gums grew back and healed. Also no longer need reading glasses (at 68 yrs old). Brown spots on hands faded away. I have more energy and
My weight has normalized. I was very careful about
My food choices as a veg person. Didn’t over eat starches etc. It took a
Lot to change to meat eater. But I feel the best I have in 50 years! What gives here. I’m also a very spiritual person and that remained even though I changed my diet to
Carnivore

[ethanbabbage]

Always enjoy some Dr. Bush. As someone who recently learned in nutrition school the value of protein rich animal meats, particularly organ meats, and how they can fit into a healthy diet and a healthy planet through regenerative farming, I am coming from the opposite side on this one. However, I believe it is always important to challenge your beliefs especially in the ever evolving, ever individualized space that is nutrition. Anything less is unscientific. I also recently heard Gabriel Lyons on Health Theory extolling the benefits of including MORE protein in the diet. I would love to see a civilized debate or someone critically analyzing these to diametrically opposed paradigms to find what interesting gems lie beneath. There is so much yet to be learned in nutrition, we are infants. However, the dogma wars are killing the open dialogue necessary for such progress to happen. We need more people willing to cross the isle, look skeptically at their own beliefs, and consider the data supporting other approaches. Bravo Zach, well done as always.

[rebeccabartsch]

I have been on a carnivore diet for 6 months now. I feel so much better than I did on a vegetarian diet for many years. Also, all my lab markers are far better than they were in my vegetarian years. The bioavailability of nutrients are far superior in meat than they are in plant-based protein. I never knew I could feel so healthy and satiated by the food that I eat. My body does not do well with the carbs and sugars on a plant-based diet. I used to struggle with food (particularly carb) addiction patterns that I tried to control for decades. Now on a carnivore diet I have such freedom from food addiction. This diet is amazingly satiating and fulfilling. It is certainly not just amino acids that you get from meat. There are so many other essential nutrients that are very difficult if not completely unavailable from plant-based proteins. It is my experience that my digestive system is much happier on my meat diet than it was on the plant diet. I have contact with many people with serious digestive problems eating mostly plants - leaky gut, in my experience, is much more likely to be a plant-based problem.
You may like the word "putrefaction" however I will use the word, "fermentation" which I believe our particular human digestive system is beautifully designed to use (along with the level of stomach acid) to smoothly digest a predominately meat-based diet.
Very interesting that you relate our increase in food sensitivities and auto immune diseases to eating meat. Everyone that I know that has switched from a plant-based diet to a carnivore diet has literally eliminated all their food sensitivities and auto immune problems. I experience that much of what you say is exactly opposite. For instance, talking about using a traditional diet, would have to lead you directly back to our hunter-gather origins. They predominately used meat. There is absolutely no credible science that proves that eating meat causes cancer or kidney disease. I think you do your audience a great disservice by making these sweeping claims with out credible science to back them up. Are you saying that we should follow our current governments dietary recommendations for protein?! You, being the one who is clear about how we have been misled about cholesterol, statins, and coronary artery disease, which by the way, I agree with you entirely on this subject. All that agricultural technology you speak of as producing corn for feed-lot animals is much harder on the life of our soil and the ecosystem of our planet when growing plants and grains in the monoculture system to provide for a plant-based diet rather than the beautiful biodiversity and healthy soil that is produced from regenerative grazing of ruminant animals "Grass Loves to be Grazed"!!
I feel exactly as you said that we are a miracle of creation, being totally designed to be consumers of meat. We can choose to align with nature and regenerate our earth by doing away with the destructive monocultural agricultural practices and learn to love our bodies by giving them them the type of nutrition they are desperately asking for.

[NothingByHalves]

With a wrecked digestive system and leaky gut, an intolerance to gluten and dairy, I switched to a plant based diet. And every time I ate I would get bloated, constipated, way too much mucus production and joints painfully inflamed. And a part of my decision to go plant based was the spiritual belief that it was a higher consciousness to not eat animals. And my health continued to go downhill.
I switched to Keto and intermittent fasting and have never felt better. Inflammation gone, bloating gone. I don't eat a huge amount of meat and stick to organic beef and oily fish. Occasionally I will eat something processed or grains or potatoes then regret that decision for the next couple of days when the sugars kick in.
I get where you are coming from and I wish the food chain was better, but it's not the meat that's the issue, it's the health of the food chain overall.

[ChristIsKing]

"As we look back 200, 000 years." The amount of faith needed to believe this, is mind blowing ~

Dr. Bush is one of my all-time favorite geniuses. He is brilliant and explains things right down to the last electron. This is what we've been lacking.

[SusanDMusic]

I have been vegan for 35 years and healthily and happily so. There is always so much out there about different diets, and I make sure I listen to all kinds of stuff - carnivore, paleo, vegan, etc. It was never my intention to be dogmatically vegan, I just wanted to be healthy. However, I support everyone's right to eat for their own bodies, what works for them, because we are all different. The amount of talk around protein I've heard lately on podcasts is almost entirely around how unhealthy it is to be vegan, that we are not getting enough protein, etc. It has definitely made me question my choices, but my body does not want animal protein, and I check in regularly! This video helps explain why I feel good and healthy and strong on my vegan diet. I eat a lot of nuts, seeds, beans and veggies, and I will keep listening to people I respect, even those who think vegan is the wrong diet. Vegan is not wrong for me personally, but I'm going to keep my mind open to knowledge and information, especially from my own body. Since Zach Bush is one of the doctors and humans I trust most these days, I am grateful for his take on all of this. Thank you!

[milkwheat]

I have leaky Gut and have severe autoimmune reactions anytime I eat carbs or fiber. I've tried countless diets from low fodmaps to scd diet and the only thing that doesn't cause me issues is when I eat only meat and eggs.

[DeyBwah]

This video was incredibly eye-opening and made a lot of sense.

I recently switched from a high-carb diet to a ketogenic diet, and I have noticed tremendous benefits with inflammation, energy levels, and holistic mental, physical, emotional, and even spiritual performance.

I'm always searching to experiment and learn new things to push past any plateaus, so this has been a great video to bring more knowledge and awareness.

I recognize that human beings are incredibly resilient and designed for anti-fragility and syntropic when the seasons of life are honored. Protean consumption is far too great in mainstream diets. It's also the combination as well as the ratios of these macronutrients that can cause problems in the microbiome.

I've moved away from overeating meat proteins, and my diet has been slowly evolving, trying different things. Cheese or dairy hasn't worked for me as I'm lactose intolerant, but I recently discovered heavy cream, which has zero protein and zero grams of carbs. I've found it to be an excellent source of fat(going raw, organic, non-GMO); combining it with cod liver and cod liver oil, an incredible array of vegetables(vast amounts of mushrooms and seaweed are my favorite), and eggs are a superfood in its own right, has a quick digestive transit time too).

I noticed the recommendations for nuts, seeds, and grains. My research has found that they all contain phytic acid and have high levels of oxalates, which can disrupt the bioavailability of minerals, electrolytes, and nutrients. I've also noticed that when I eat those items mentioned above, I get tired, and I also have seen a dip in my performance(I barefoot run, train martial arts, and train with HIIT protocols).

When I attempted Keto several years ago, I fell into the marketing trap with "Keto friendly" snacks and recipes that relied on all kinds of processed junk and artificial sweeteners + consumed WAY too much meat proteins.

This time, I honored the ratios of fats to proteins to carbs and feel incredible. I also spend several hours a day training outdoors, barefoot, on the shore, where I'm getting optimized grounding and solar energy, which helps signal positive epigenetic upregulation.

I foresee more experimentation with a plant-based approach to nutrition. Still, I've also come to recognize that dogmatic "diets" subconsciously may be limiting the true potential of our human genome's ability to adapt to our environment and survive and thrive off of many different paths of managing energy levels and performance.

I'm curious and open to any discussion on this topic.

Is phytic acid and oxalates not an issue with grains, nuts/seeds?

Thank you for this incredible video!

I first discovered Dr. Zach Bush from his video on Afterskool on chemical farming and its effects on autism.

I highly recommend books from Dr. Tomas Cowan on the subject of vaccines, autoimmunity, water, and cancer. Great stuff.

[jandhaene]

I tried vegetarian, macrobiotic, vegan diets and for a short period of time they helped getting rid of my acne. Later on doing karate and running destroyed my knees so that I had to stop doing these type of sports. Now back to high protein diet, which stopped inflammation, and I can run and climb mountains again.

[inigomontoya]

I’m interested to hear Zacks take on this he’s the only vegan doctor I have come upon that actually looks healthy so many of the others claim it is so health full yet look absolutely starved.

[Qodesh]

I usually love what Zach Bush teaches and his heart is so pure. But there is some deep education New studies and personal testimonies on meat consumption and fat/proteins that has healed people from so many illnesses and mental disorders.

[donnadeb]

I absolutely adore this video! This Doc explains this topic beautifully.. I am sharing this with people I care about. Thank you 🙏🏾❤️

[SWLion]

I like this approach: Animal proteins OK but in small quantities, 80 to 90% minimally processed foods (with most calories coming from fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes), occasional treat food (dessert) OK as long as it makes up no more than 20% of total calories, and 40 g or more of fiber per day.

[davalenelivingston]

I decided to go vegan after years of being a wishy washy vegetarian and was consuming mega diary and eggs to compensate for not eating meat (occasionally eating fish - but stopped eating that too)...and my son responded "Mom, make sure you get enough protein." It's a mantra from as soon as a child stops breast feeding or bottle feeding. I was looking in the back of Dean Ornish's book "How to Reverse Heart Disease" (I bought it because my dad died of a heart attack, although I haven't any heart issues) and found protein and other criteria on each of the foods listed. I was surprised to see that even an apple has protein! I'm glad to be listening to this medical expert and learn more of what I need to know.

[roseker]

I am in deep gratitude for the privilege of hearing Zach Bush’s interpretation of “everything”! I now have a better understanding of proteins and feel encouraged to continue my learning process as a well balanced vegan. I would love to make a huge pot of soup for you🙏⚛️with much love💝🌹