Dec. 16, 2024

320: The Hidden Cancer Link in Your Dinner - World Health Organization's Shocking Meat Report!

320: The Hidden Cancer Link in Your Dinner - World Health Organization's Shocking Meat Report!
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320: The Hidden Cancer Link in Your Dinner - World Health Organization's Eye-Opening Meat Report

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      Did you know that the World Health Organization has classified certain meats as carcinogenic, saying, “there is convincing evidence that the agent causes cancer!” And these are the meats that we used to eat- thinking that we were feeding our family the healthy options! If you still believe "beef, it's what's for dinner" or are still opting for the “healthy” cold cut meats, this eye-opening episode will transform your understanding of nutrition forever. 

      In this powerful episode of Power On Plants, we're pulling back the curtain on the surprising truth about animal proteins: beef, chicken, and fish and why these 'healthy' protein choices might be secretly sabotaging your wellness goals. 
       
      We'll also share our personal journey from eating a “healthy” whole food diet & not understanding our growing list of health problems, to thriving on whole plant foods.

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       • High blood pressure or high cholesterol ?
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      Join us as we unpack the scientific evidence about meat consumption, sharing the reliable research about dietary cholesterol and arachidonic acid. We'll explain why simply trimming fat from meat won't solve the cholesterol problem and how these foods are known to fuel chronic inflammation in the body.

      This isn't just about gaining some new, shocking health facts—it's about gaining complete life transformation!

      Whether it's having the energy to play with your children & grandchildren, starting that business you've always dreamed of, growing your current business to new heights, or simply waking up feeling refreshed and pain-free so you can get out and enjoy relationship with others, this is your pathway to making it happen.

      Discover:

      • The alarming connection between high-heat cooking of meat and increased risks of aging, diabetes, and cancer

      • Why these meats are classified as Group 1 and 2A carcinogens by the World Health Organization

      • The truth about cholesterol in all animal products - even the "lean" ones

      • How switching from beef to chicken or fish isn't the solution to health struggles

      • Our proven 5-Step Framework for transitioning to delicious plant-based meals the simple, lasting way

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      00:00 - Breaking Free From Meat Myths

      11:26 - Understanding Cholesterol and Inflammation in Meat

      18:08 - Plant-Based Diet Benefits and Myths

      25:06 - Hidden Dangers of Meat Consumption

      38:41 - Plant-Based Program Transformation

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      Beef it's what's for dinner.

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      Since 1992, we have heard this slogan over and over again on commercials.

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      You've seen it in print and magazine.

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      You may have even seen it on billboards.

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      I don't know when we live.

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      We don't travel too far on the interstate so we don't see too many billboards anymore but I would imagine at some point in time they've been on billboards as well.

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      Now, interestingly, they don't make any health claims, but they specify with absolute certainty beef it's what's for dinner?

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      Not on our table.

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      Not in our household or on our table, and hasn't been for quite some time now, but it gives you this sense of oh well, it must be very healthy.

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      And you see lots and lots of videos on YouTube lots and lots of people promoting it that this is a fantastic source for protein and other nutrients.

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      So you need meat, you need beef At least that's their message.

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      But is there any truth to that?

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      Let's talk about it.

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      Hey sister, welcome to the Power on Plants podcast.

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      Are you tired of staring into the fridge wondering what to eat so you can just feel better?

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      Do you want to avoid spending hours in the kitchen making complicated meals in the name of health?

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      Would you love to leave fatigue behind and finally have the energy to do all the things you want to do?

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      Hi, we're Jared and Anita Roussel, christ followers, healthcare professionals, parents of four and big fans of great tasting food.

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      We, too, tried exercising more, eating natural and clean foods, but we still found ourselves struggling with what we thought were changes that come with age or bad genes, and we weren't finding answers the traditional route.

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      So we dug into the research and created our secret nutritional weapon sustainable plant-based living.

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      The truth is, you can eat more whole plant foods and it's not hard.

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      You just need the way.

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      That's realistic and delicious, so you never feel deprived.

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      If you're ready to enjoy your meals, no longer be held back by your health struggles and actively live your life, then you're in the right place.

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      So grab your favorite plant-based cup of happy pop in those earbuds and let's get started.

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      Well, hey, there, sunshine, you're back, and we're so happy to be back again with you hanging out for another episode of Power on Plants podcast and if you're new here, we are thrilled to have you joining us so that you can learn how to naturally break free from the health struggles that have been holding you back for far too long.

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      In case you're just meeting us, jared is a physician assistant certified in lifestyle medicine, and I'm a nurse and certified integrative nutrition health coach, and our passion is helping you to finally feel great, but naturally because we just got tired of helping our patients manage their diseases and then we hit a wall with our own health, which got us to the point where we had to get answers.

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      We had to get into the research and dig and pray and start trying to figure out what in the world is going on here, why do we not feel good and why are we not finding answers to traditional route?

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      As you know if you've been around here any length of time, we're not against medicine or the medical community, because we are a part of the medical community, but we are for healing in the way that is natural and actually tastes good, so that it lasts for life.

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      This is what lights up our hearts.

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      It's our God-given mission to see you be able to fully live the calling that he's placed here for you to live out.

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      And you can't do that when you're exhausted and you don't feel good and you're having to struggle through the day.

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      It takes all your focus, all your energy and you find yourself feeling so frustrated and overwhelmed because you've tried all these different things.

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      One of our clients even said to me one time.

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      She said, anita, I've done so many things.

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      I swear I ought to have a nutrition degree by now.

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      She said, I've looked into so many different ways to eat and so many things to do and all that information is so confusing.

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      And so, over time, jared and I developed our five-step framework.

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      That works time and time again and that's what we lead you through inside our course accelerator.

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      I'm telling you it is so life-changing.

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      This January, the 12th, will be the first time we've ever opened the doors to this course as an official course, but we've been working with members for years inside our membership, helping them to get results.

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      And this framework has worked time and again and we cannot wait to walk you through it step by step, but first you have to understand a lot of these things that we're teaching you on the podcast will help you to break free and start getting results even before you start working with us on the inside of the program, and one of those things is breaking free from the myths that are so prevalent in our society that our enemy is behind.

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      You know, we have a common enemy and he wants to keep us stuck, unable to fulfill our calling, and so he fights us in every way possible, and one of the sneaky, clever ways he does that is through marketing, and one of the things that he markets and pushes on us is meat.

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      Now, if you didn't hear the last episode, you need to go back and listen to that, because on that one we talked about dairy and it's very eye-opening.

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      You're not going to want to miss that.

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      But in this one we're talking about beef.

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      It's what's for dinner, or is it really?

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      Not in this household, it's not.

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      You mentioned a moment ago about medications.

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      We are not against medication and medicine in general, but what I find is that we go to medicine first and then, if that doesn't give us answers or results, then we might consider natural means, food, exercise, all the pillars of lifestyle medicine.

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      What we say is let's get those things straight first.

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      Let's get rid of the risky substances.

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      Let's look at our diet first.

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      Let's get the good foods in there.

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      Let's start addressing those things.

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      Yes, then use medications when needed.

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      I feel like we've got the whole process backwards.

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      So there's a time and a place for medication, but it's so overused and with that comes potentially side effects and expense and doctor's visits.

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      And procedures and a lifestyle where you have to depend on all of those things that keep you stuck, because it's not just about the medications and the side effects.

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      You got to look at.

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      How is that affecting your life when you're dependent on all those things?

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      How do they make you feel so?

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      You're taking medications, you've got side effects, you're dealing with those side effects.

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      You need more medications.

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      Then you've got all the time like what could you do if your time was freed up and you weren't having to plan the doctor's visits and sit in the office and then go to get the medications, and then the time it takes to plan how many you need to take per day, and then the procedures that you have to have done, and then the cost for that and how much you have to work to pay for that procedure.

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      It is just like you could keep going on and on with this.

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      We have no idea how much health really plays a part in what we're able to do in this world.

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      We think about short term.

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      Yeah, I just don't feel good today and I've just got to get through this day and maybe I'll be better tomorrow, and you stack that day after day after miserable day, and that ends up making up your life, and we just don't want anybody to ever have to live that way, because we live that way for far too long and you know, sometimes when you're in that cycle you don't even realize what you're dealing with.

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      I was just thinking the very same thing.

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      You're in survival mode, but you don't realize you're in survival mode.

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      It's just you're looking one day at a time and I'm not saying that's always a bad thing as far as taking it one day at a time, but if you don't see the greater picture of what does my life look like?

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      Am I happy?

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      Am I healthy?

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      Am I free to go and do the things I want to do, or am I held back by my body in the health situation where I am right now?

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      Yeah, I think when I hit my worst with my health when I was right at 40, it was just awful how everything kind of came crashing down, and so we started looking into and praying about what do we do about this.

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      There's got to be some answer here, because we weren't finding it the traditional way.

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      But I think about you because I don't think you realized how badly your help was already being affected.

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      And then all of a sudden we started implementing these things together and you started getting all these amazing improvements and feeling better and having more energy and going hey, you woke up one day and you're moving your arm around.

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      It was so funny and I remember you going my arms don't ache.

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      It's almost like you my shoulder, the ache and pain, isn't there anymore.

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      When did that happen?

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      Right, but I don't even think you really realized it was there, or you just kind of learned to deal with those aches and pains because you think, oh well, you're just getting older.

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      Oh, that's just what happened.

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      They were there.

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      They weren't debilitating, they didn't bother me every time I moved my arm.

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      But certain ways that I moved my arm I had impingement on both sides and if I moved it a certain way it would flare it up for a day or two and it was noticeable I was altering the way that I was using my arm to prevent from flaring that.

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      And the thing that blows my mind is we thought we were eating healthy.

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      I mean, when we hit rock bottom when.

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      I hit rock bottom with my health.

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      It was like we thought we were eating healthy because I wasn't buying the hormone added dairy.

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      I was being very intentional to avoid the added hormones in dairy.

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      Again, you got to get back and listen to the other episode on dairy that we just did right before this one, if you have not heard it yet, because it will blow your mind some of the things we talk about in there.

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      But just doing these things and just not knowing, like okay, so it's filled with hormones, because it's a secretion that comes from a mom's mammary milk gland.

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      It by nature is filled with hormones but we're not adding extra hormones to it.

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      Okay, well, that's great and all, but we're still getting all these extra hormones.

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      Anyway, I'm not going to go off on dairy, just go listen.

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      You got to listen to the last one, but you can finish listening to this one.

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      First.

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      Listen to this one, then go back and listen to the other one.

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      Well, it's just so amazing because we grew up with all these marketing messages that we didn't even realize were going on in the background.

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      And still today it's happening, it's rampant and we think beef it's what's for dinner.

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      Because they tell us it's what's for dinner.

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      Who are they?

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      Well, they have a vested interest in telling you that.

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      But you've got to realize it's not just them that's telling you, it's what's behind it that's trying to get you to think that this is really the healthiest way to eat.

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      So at that time we weren't just eating dairy when we were feeling our worst.

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      We were also being very conscientious and very careful to our worst.

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      We were also being very conscientious and very careful to only buy free range beef and we would buy it from farmers, local farmers, and buy sides of it and put it in the freezer and we were buying the best meat that we could get.

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      I mean, we were very intentional about it and still hit that wall with our health.

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      But it just breaks my heart because I look back and I think we were doing what we were told would make us healthy and yet we landed at this place where we couldn't even live our lives.

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      We were getting ready at that time to go pick up our daughter from China.

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      She was two years old and I remember crying and asking our friends who were in the choir with me pray over me, because my arms are so sore and they hurt so badly and I don't have energy.

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      And we're about to go to China to pick up our daughter and bring her home and I don't even know if I'm going to be able to lift her and hold her in her mom's arms.

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      That just broke my heart, and the frustrating part is no one's telling you what to do.

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      You're going to the people who are supposed to know and you're not getting the answers, and so that's why I'm so glad you're here to learn the truths about these foods that are sabotaging your health, and you didn't even know.

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      And if somebody would have just told you, you would have been willing to do it, but they just weren't telling you.

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      Sometimes they don't know.

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      I mean there's a whole host of reasons why you're not hearing it, but you're here today and you get to hear about meat and we're going to expose some of these lies and things that we didn't understand about this, just by nature, what it's doing to our bodies.

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      Yes, I'm going to shed some light on the subject here Now I want to give a little bit of a nerd alert here.

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      Is that what you said a few episodes ago?

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      Was it nerd geek?

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      I don't remember.

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      Probably, maybe we should say Professor.

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      Jared's going to come to the mic.

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      Oh, I like that Professor Jared's coming to the mic.

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      Professor Jared, Because you like to nerd out that's kind of how people see it where you like to geek out on getting into the research and looking at why is this made this way?

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      And that You've just always been that way.

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      I love that.

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      I enjoy it, but I think it's also important.

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      So I'm going to do that today.

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      We're going to get into a little bit of material here, but I promise it'll be understandable and you'll understand why I'm First, cholesterol it is filled with cholesterol.

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      When you look at beef, when you look at muscle cells, 20 to 30 percent of the cell membrane is composed of cholesterol, and this is important because sometimes people think I'll just trim the fat off of it.

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      That's where all the bad stuff is.

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      It's just protein and meat.

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      And while, yes, there is protein and meat, cholesterol is an inherent part of the cell.

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      It's part of what helps to keep the cell membrane movable and pliable and to do all the things that it needs to do.

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      We look at cholesterol and we've talked about this recently where cholesterol in your body is not a bad thing.

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      Our body makes all that it needs.

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      Any that we get from outside sources can either be too much or, because of cooking methods, it's oxidized.

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      It's in a form that doesn't do our body good.

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      And so just by eating meat, by nature you're eating muscle cells, so there's no trimming that off, correct?

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      And that's the big point that I want to highlight here.

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      We talked about cholesterol Meat.

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      Every form of meat, whether it's beef, lamb, chicken, fish, is going to have cholesterol in it.

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      Right, because we think somehow they've gotten us to believe.

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      Oh well, yeah, beef's unhealthy, but chicken, chicken is so much healthier.

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      It's no different when it comes to fat and cholesterol content.

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      Now, the next aspect of this that I have alluded to in other episodes is arachidonic acid.

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      What is that?

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      You may say?

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      Good question.

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      It's an omega-6 fatty acid that is found in our bodies.

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      We have it, we need it.

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      It is also a very necessary component of cell membrane.

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      It also helps to keep the membrane very fluid.

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      It helps with different processes within the cell, like different channels for things to enter in or out of the cell.

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      So we must have it.

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      But the body's very careful at keeping arachidonic acid in low quantities within the cell, so it's primarily in the membrane of the cell.

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      When cells get injured you get cut, you get hit, whatever the case may be, you get a splinter.

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      Well, what's going to happen?

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      There's going to be disruption of the cells.

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      Arachidonic acid gets released.

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      What we know is that when arachidonic acid is free and free in the blood, that it is part of the inflammatory response in our body it gets converted into prostaglandins by an enzyme called cyclooxygenase.

      00:14:33.144 --> 00:14:34.105
      Well, guess what?

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      There are medications ibuprofen, aleve, aspirin you may have heard of these.

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      They inhibit the enzyme that converts arachidonic acid to prostaglandins.

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      This is one of the ways it helps to prevent pain and inflammation.

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      This is not a bad process.

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      This is the way the Lord designed our bodies, but it was meant to be for a short time.

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      There's an injury, there's an inflammatory response.

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      It heals, inflammatory response, goes away.

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      Now what happens if you're eating meat which 40% of the cell membrane in beef is arachidonic acid?

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      So it's a pretty high percentage there.

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      So what's going to happen when you keep eating that day after day after day?

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      Now some may say, well, hey, the arachidonic acid is good because your own body would use it, and that's true.

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      But we've got another way, a better way for that.

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      So hold on with me here.

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      But if we're getting a lot of that on a daily basis, what's going to happen?

      00:15:32.914 --> 00:15:34.340
      Constant inflammation.

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      It creates this base, ongoing, never-ending inflammatory state within the body.

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      We have the cyclooxygenase that creates prostaglandins.

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      That's why women during that time of the month have a lot of cramping in their uterus because prostaglandins cause the muscles to contract.

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      That's beneficial and that process is used during childbirth, but that's not beneficial just for ongoing everyday life.

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      So many women, when they cut out meat, they find they don't have that same issue.

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      The PMS symptoms go away.

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      Correct or get significantly better to where it's not an issue.

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      Also, too, there are enzymes.

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      There's one called lipoxygenase that converts arachidonic acid into a molecule called leukotrienes.

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      This is a chemoattractant.

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      Think of this molecule as a shofar calling the troops of Israel into battle.

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      So leukotrienes call your white blood cells into the area and says hey, we have injury over here, we need your help.

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      Come help us.

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      There's a medication called Singulair that prevents formation of leukotrienes and that's used for people that have seasonal allergies and asthma Interesting.

      00:16:46.395 --> 00:16:51.176
      So guess what happens whenever you start to cut out meat and dairy and these types of products?

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      For many people, their asthma gets better and their allergies improve, get better.

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      Right, exactly.

      00:16:57.928 --> 00:16:59.701
      But we're talking about one thing here.

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      We're talking about removing the meat, right?

      00:17:02.443 --> 00:17:06.086
      So if we remove the meat from our diet, that's just one thing.

      00:17:06.086 --> 00:17:11.182
      But what if we then had plants on top of that and then you get all these benefits?

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      I know we're not even probably going there today, but you've got to think.

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      This isn't just about what you're removing.

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      I want you to start thinking about what you're going to be gaining.

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      Again, I'm going into great detail in this, inside the course that's coming up.

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      If you want to find out more about it, go to poweronplantscom accelerator, because the doors for this first course are closing on the 12th of January and we are offering $2,000 off.

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      We're never going to be doing this again, so if you want to get in at the best rate possible, this is the time you want to do this, because we're going into not only how do you get these things out and what are the things that need to be out and why, like what Jared's talking about but what do I get back into their place and how do I make it taste just as good as the steak I used to love and the hamburger I?

      00:17:58.102 --> 00:18:00.288
      used to love, or better, or even better.

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      Sweet.

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      I mean that's why we're never tempted, because we always sit there and go.

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      This tastes better than what we used to eat.

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      It's so much better, it really is better.

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      And I tell my patients that all the time, that I never say I will never eat meat again, that I never say I will never eat meat again.

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      I say on a daily basis I choose not to because there's no desire for it, and I love what I eat more than what I used to eat.

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      So why would I switch Right?

      00:18:25.117 --> 00:18:30.942
      It doesn't even make sense and if you have the framework that sets you up for that kind of life like we do, and we live it day after day.

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      We've been doing this for years and years.

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      Our children, since they were very tiny, have been doing this.

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      I mean, it's so easy.

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      They can make their own meals.

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      They've been doing this ever since they were young.

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      I mean really young.

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      That's how easy our recipes are.

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      But you can't do it.

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      If you're trying to figure out how to make two and three hour recipes work For you, you're going to think this is never going to work.

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      It's too hard and you're setting yourself up for failure.

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      You've got to learn the way.

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      That's super simple, super quick and the food just lights you up.

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      And then you're not dreaming about the steak or dreaming of cheat days or doing all those things that will set you up for failure and thinking that you gotta have meat because you just miss it so badly.

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      No, we still eat fish tacos.

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      We love fish tacos.

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      We still eat burgers.

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      We just eat them in a way that loves our body back and we still love the way they taste just as much or even more.

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      I know it is hard to understand and actually believe that this is true because it sounds too good to be true, but it really is true.

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      And then we see client after client coming off medications for diabetes and high blood pressure and cholesterol and all these crazy things they've been told they'll have for life, just by learning how to not do things like eat meat, that we're setting them up and they didn't even realize it.

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      Or the dairy getting rid of dairy.

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      We just don't know.

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      We can't wrap our mind around how to do it when you've got somebody who's been there and who has done that and can show you.

      00:19:54.558 --> 00:19:55.761
      Now you know.

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      And once you know, it's not hard.

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      You just have to learn something.

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      That's a little bit different and it is so, so worth it.

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      All right.

      00:20:03.971 --> 00:20:07.461
      So now we've removed meat and we're talking about arachidonic acid.

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      So, jared, you said it was important and you said I shouldn't get it from meat.

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      Where should I get it?

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      There's a fatty acid called linoleic acid that our bodies will use to make arachidonic acid as we need it.

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      Now it turns out that linoleic acid is not inflammatory.

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      And guess where you find it?

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      You find it in nuts, seeds, grains, legumes and veggies, or in other words, you find it in plants.

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      You're making me hungry.

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      Our body uses it when it's in a whole food source.

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      It is not inflammatory.

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      And what?

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      we see Imagine that.

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      Imagine that, and then what we do see is that when those oils are pressed out in liquid form, such as quote unquote vegetable oils which, honestly, most of them are seed oils- Right.

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      What we find is that those can be pro-inflammatory, and I think that is probably because they get converted into arachidonic acid in a way that is not as well controlled by the body.

      00:21:06.165 --> 00:21:10.586
      So we have a mechanism for doing this the better way.

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      So people could say well, you need me, it has arachidonic acid, your body needs it, it's a good source for it, but now we know why it's not the best source for it.

      00:21:19.795 --> 00:21:27.843
      But we have to ask these things like just because something has something in it doesn't mean it's the best source or that we need to eat it for that thing.

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      I'm trying to think of a good example.

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      You can probably think of a great example.

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      If we talked about is calcium in milk.

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      Just because we need calcium and milk has calcium in it, doesn't mean it's the best source for it, exactly.

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      Chalk chalk on the chalkboard has calcium Right, doesn't mean you should be grabbing one of those and chomping down on it.

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      Walking around eating your chalk snack, yeah that's probably not the best idea.

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      Which is kind of what we're doing when we eat Tums, but that's a whole different story.

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      It does work in the short term.

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      But you know what's great when you eat whole plant foods and you get a lot of these other foods out, you're probably not going to need that chalk anymore.

      00:22:01.948 --> 00:22:02.688
      Very true.

      00:22:02.867 --> 00:22:05.029
      It's amazing how our heartburn went away.

      00:22:05.029 --> 00:22:07.112
      We used to have reflux all the time.

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      I don't remember the last time I've had reflux.

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      I mean, it just doesn't really happen now it's so rare For me.

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      If it ever happens, it was just because I maybe ate just a little too much, but it was definitely not the food, it was just.

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      You overate.

      00:22:21.166 --> 00:22:21.728
      I overate.

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      Isn't it amazing, though, because these foods don't cause you to overeat in the same way, you don't have the same cravings.

      00:22:29.339 --> 00:22:41.882
      Food kind of loses its hold on you, and the fact of cravings and feeling like I have to constantly be eating something and it's really because of those foods have been set up to make you crave them to.

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      A lot of the processed foods and a lot of the way even the whole foods that aren't plant foods are created and prepared today, they have things in them and on them to keep bringing you back for more.

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      One big difference that I noticed is that I eat until I'm no longer hungry, not until I can no longer eat meaning I'm absolutely stuffed and I believe that's one of the main reasons why I don't have reflux.

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      But on those rare occasions when it's just so good and I eat a little more, not realizing it, then I get full but interestingly that quickly goes away Within like 30 minutes.

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      I'm good Since we've gone, but interestingly that quickly goes away within like 30 minutes, I'm good.

      00:23:17.115 --> 00:23:18.882
      Since we've gone plant-based, I might've had reflux.

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      I mean, it's been years and years now.

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      I probably have only had reflux, maybe once or twice, and it was whenever I would eat something that was more highly processed, like a pasta or something like that.

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      And those are the things that I find that I'm more prone to overeat on.

      00:23:33.866 --> 00:23:37.478
      Like, I don't overeat plant-based meals, I just don't.

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      I love them, but it's like when you're full, you're full, the fiber in there fills you up, all these things your body was meant to have.

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      And then your body gets notice that it's received the nutrients it needs.

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      It's not just about the sheer amount of the food, it's the fact that your body is getting all these phytonutrients and it sends signals to your brain.

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      You're full, and it just doesn't happen with these other foods not in the same way.

      00:24:03.317 --> 00:24:06.546
      So it's so nice to be free from that need for the chalk.

      00:24:06.546 --> 00:24:18.622
      It really is life-changing living this way and eating this way and getting free from the foods that we thought oh, they were healthy, oh, it was whole and it was cage-free and it was free-range and it was all these different things.

      00:24:18.622 --> 00:24:24.806
      Well, it was still making us very sick, and so I'm very thankful that we've learned the fact that it does have to be what's for dinner.

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      And now we're understanding why that is.

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      Next element of beef is the saturated fats.

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      We don't really have to go into too much detail here, but you get a lot of animal-based saturated fats from meat and it's found within the tissue.

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      Yes, you could trim the fat off and then, as far as fat content, that may help, but there is fat within the muscle cells and between the muscle cells, so you're never going to escape that.

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      It's just inherently part of that.

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      The next topic I want to bring up is a byproduct of actually cooking the meat.

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      Most of us aren't going to eat meat raw, and if you do, it's probably not the best, I'm just going to say because you've got the potential for contamination with things like bacteria, which is just not good for you.

      00:25:06.816 --> 00:25:09.864
      When you cook meat, there are several different products that are created.

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      One is called AGEs Advanced Glycosylated End Products.

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      I've even seen it referenced as a glycotoxin.

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      This is a sugar molecule will bind to the protein and then create these specific products that are known to be implicating things like diabetes and aging.

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      Cooking methods like broiling, frying, grilling.

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      High heat.

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      High dry heat yes.

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      So roasting All of these things will form AGEs, advanced glycosylated end products.

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      And if this is not something you've ever heard of think about, when bread browns there's a reaction called the Maillard reaction that is known within the baking world.

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      And so as you bake bread and it gets that brownish color on it, that is because the sugars are combining with the proteins well within our bodies.

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      That also leads to faster aging.

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      It's kind of ironic Agee age, it ages you.

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      So this is not good and you don't see this type of process happening with plants to the same degree.

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      It can happen, especially with drier cooking methods.

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      So methods where you're boiling, where there's more moisture in there, there's more water associated with it.

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      You have much, much lower formation of these products.

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      But in plants as a whole it is less than meat.

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      It's significantly less, even if you're roasting Right.

      00:26:35.215 --> 00:26:42.229
      What we know from studies is that meat is the highest dietary source of this end product.

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      The AGEs Other components that are formed HCA, heterocyclic amines these are formed when amino acids combined with sugars and either creatine or creatinine found within the muscle, and these are known to cause DNA changes within the cell.

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      So these are mutagenic, these are cancer forming.

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      And we know that certain types of meats are classified as carcinogenic, as cancer causing.

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      That there is a known association between consumption of that product and cancer formation.

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      Right.

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      And so that breaks my heart, because I remember back in the day when I used to buy sandwich meat for us and I was so very particular about this type of sandwich meat I would buy because I wanted it to be healthy for us, so I would buy no nitrate, no nitrite added.

      00:27:28.294 --> 00:27:46.727
      I mean, I remember standing there for minutes and minutes going through the different brands, looking for the ones that had no nitrate, no nitrite, organic, trying to be healthy, not knowing all the time that by nature, that very product was considered by research, labeled as carcinogenic, cancer-causing.

      00:27:46.727 --> 00:27:59.329
      So according to the World Health Organization and you can look this up on your own on their website online Processed meat is classified as a group one carcinogen to humans.

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      Processed, you're thinking, oh, highly processed, this is like sandwich meats and stuff.

      00:28:03.622 --> 00:28:03.943
      Okay.

      00:28:04.375 --> 00:28:13.505
      Yeah, it's not just things like bacon, which bacons would be, but it's any kind of processed meat, so lunch meat and, just like you said, we would try to find where it was organic.

      00:28:13.505 --> 00:28:27.873
      No hormone added, no nitrite added, which was a bit of a deception there, because they didn't add nitrates to it, but they did add food products that would naturally convert to nitrates, right?

      00:28:27.873 --> 00:28:30.806
      So there were still just the same amount of nitrates in there.

      00:28:30.967 --> 00:28:34.378
      Again a marketing message on the front of their package to make us feel better.

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      Ok, now I'm about to get worked up.

      00:28:35.962 --> 00:28:37.386
      Don't get worked up, listen to this.

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      We got a message to deliver.

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      Process me.

      00:28:40.104 --> 00:28:45.921
      Well, I just love y'all so much and I don't want you suffering like I see you suffering and like we suffered.

      00:28:45.921 --> 00:28:47.084
      It's ridiculous.

      00:28:47.084 --> 00:28:55.250
      I'm going to the store as a mom trying to take care of my family and buy the best products possible and I'm putting into my buggy.

      00:28:55.250 --> 00:29:00.396
      Now, come on, should somebody not be telling us this stuff?

      00:29:00.396 --> 00:29:06.259
      That's why we're here to tell you this, because it is absolutely sickening that this is happening.

      00:29:06.580 --> 00:29:11.083
      Processed meat has been classified as a group one carcinogen to people.

      00:29:11.083 --> 00:29:12.124
      Oh, this is an all.

      00:29:12.124 --> 00:29:12.683
      Just wait.

      00:29:12.683 --> 00:29:15.885
      This category is used when there is a sufficient evidence.

      00:29:15.885 --> 00:29:17.807
      That's a group one category.

      00:29:17.807 --> 00:29:28.373
      Okay, so processed meat is called the group one carcinogen, and what that means is there is sufficient evidence of cancer causing in humans that we say it causes cancer.

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      Okay, that's what group one is.

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      Look it up.

      00:29:30.622 --> 00:29:35.476
      There is convincing evidence that this agent causes cancer.

      00:29:35.476 --> 00:29:46.310
      But red meat in total, not just processed red meat in total is classified as a group 2A, probably most likely to cause cancer.

      00:29:46.310 --> 00:29:48.061
      Just wrap your mind around that for a minute.

      00:29:48.061 --> 00:29:53.167
      That's what the studies show, and they are showing this on the World Health Organization website.

      00:29:53.167 --> 00:30:00.183
      Red meat is classified as a 2A probable cancer-causing food.

      00:30:00.585 --> 00:30:04.410
      Group 2B is possible, but with red meat.

      00:30:04.410 --> 00:30:14.461
      They're saying that there is enough evidence to suggest that it is a probable, not just possible, like it could happen, but that it likely is associated with that.

      00:30:14.603 --> 00:30:18.416
      And this is beef, veal, pork, lamb, mutton, horse and goat.

      00:30:18.416 --> 00:30:23.308
      They're saying is called red meat for the purposes of this discussion.

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      Oh y'all, I'm not even going to get into the other stuff of what's in here.

      00:30:27.845 --> 00:30:30.519
      Jared shared so much already about what's in here.

      00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:33.366
      I can't even go where my mind is going right now, but I want you.

      00:30:33.515 --> 00:30:34.298
      We'll never get through.

      00:30:34.298 --> 00:30:36.003
      I still have a couple more points actually.

      00:30:36.275 --> 00:30:39.885
      I want to hear your points and they want to hear your points and I want you to share those.

      00:30:39.885 --> 00:30:55.407
      But I just want you to wrap your mind around the fact of you're walking the aisles in a store and you're putting into your cart things that you think are safe for your family, or you're going to your farmer buying these things, thinking they're safer, and we just know from the research that this is not healthy food.

      00:30:55.407 --> 00:30:58.500
      This is why we're struggling with things and not understanding why.

      00:30:58.500 --> 00:31:11.769
      But I eat healthy and I eat my vegetables, my little side of half-killed cooked vegetables or my little side salad on the side but in every meal I'm eating all these things that are salting my body the meats, the dairy.

      00:31:11.769 --> 00:31:17.104
      But I want you to think about how sad that is, and very few people are talking about these things.

      00:31:17.104 --> 00:31:29.304
      Why is someone not telling us hey, if you want your children to be healthy and you want to be healthy and you don't want to have cancer down the road, meat is not what you should be eating, it's not what you should be putting in your buggy, it's not healthy.

      00:31:29.304 --> 00:31:34.242
      And no, you don't have to have it for iron, you don't have to have it for protein.

      00:31:34.242 --> 00:31:36.623
      There's plenty of protein in plants.

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      Come into our free group and search.

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      At the bottom we have a search button that you can search every single podcast episode.

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      You need to get this information into your hands so that you can understand how do I feed my family the best.

      00:32:12.227 --> 00:32:15.989
      Maybe you're a grandparent and you're thinking I'm helping raise the next generation.

      00:32:15.989 --> 00:32:20.380
      When they're at your house, you want to feed them the things that are going to help them thrive.

      00:32:20.380 --> 00:32:26.667
      Teach them from an early age a love for broccoli, call it trees, make it fun.

      00:32:26.667 --> 00:32:29.411
      There's so many different ways to do this.

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      I have tons and tons of ways I can share with you.

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      It's just unbelievable, and we've been taught these things.

      00:32:35.936 --> 00:32:47.846
      And so we're standing there spending five or 10 minutes trying to pick out the healthiest meat, all the time putting a carcinogenic thing, a probable or definitely known cancer-causing item, into our cart.

      00:32:47.846 --> 00:32:48.647
      That lights me up.

      00:32:48.855 --> 00:32:50.859
      In retrospect, it is ironic.

      00:32:50.859 --> 00:32:54.517
      We were trying to pick out which was the healthiest carcinogen to put in our buggy.

      00:32:54.857 --> 00:32:55.400
      It's sickening.

      00:32:55.420 --> 00:32:57.164
      I mean, really that's what it boiled down to.

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      The last molecule that I want to mention that comes from the cooking of meat is polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

      00:33:04.778 --> 00:33:07.786
      These form when meat is cooked over an open flame.

      00:33:07.786 --> 00:33:09.696
      So you've got the meat juices and the fat.

      00:33:09.696 --> 00:33:19.928
      They go down through the grate of the grill and into the hot flames and so these are formed and then as they rise they'll stick to the meat and these are known carcinogens.

      00:33:19.928 --> 00:33:21.519
      This is not just might be.

      00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:23.204
      These are known carcinogens.

      00:33:23.204 --> 00:33:27.064
      So you are absolutely getting these when you cook meat over an open flint.

      00:33:27.384 --> 00:33:34.958
      So, unfortunately, that barbecue, while you may have some good memories and associations tied to that, it's not a healthy thing to do.

      00:33:34.958 --> 00:33:37.363
      So that wraps up for cooking.

      00:33:37.363 --> 00:33:41.901
      The last point I want to touch on are bioaccumulated toxins.

      00:33:41.901 --> 00:33:58.586
      We know that within animals and we hear this a lot with fish, how they're heavy metals in the water, mercury, things of that nature that fish, especially the bigger fish that have been around and alive longer, have more mercury in their bodies because they eat other fish and they just store it in their fat.

      00:33:58.586 --> 00:34:00.303
      They accumulate it.

      00:34:00.323 --> 00:34:02.515
      And we ate salmon for so many years.

      00:34:02.515 --> 00:34:06.814
      I bought salmon to be healthy and to make my family healthy.

      00:34:06.814 --> 00:34:10.940
      To get my omegas yeah, you can get those from plants and it's not hard.

      00:34:10.940 --> 00:34:16.481
      But we're convinced we need to be taking a fish oil supplement and we gotta eat salmon because it's healthy.

      00:34:16.481 --> 00:34:19.398
      And all the while I'm wondering why am I having health struggles back in the day?

      00:34:19.398 --> 00:34:23.626
      Right, it's so frustrating, it's messed up.

      00:34:23.666 --> 00:34:27.985
      It was part of the picture, but that process happens in land animals as well.

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      So you look at pesticides.

      00:34:30.603 --> 00:34:40.148
      Pesticides and herbicides are sprayed all over and so when that gets on the food source that these animals eat, they're going to accumulate that in their bodies.

      00:34:40.454 --> 00:34:44.563
      Then will I not be getting it from the plants, because the plants are also getting sprayed.

      00:34:44.675 --> 00:34:52.713
      Well, plants don't accumulate them like the animals do because, an animal has to eat 100 pounds of plants for one pound of meat.

      00:34:53.193 --> 00:34:53.375
      Right.

      00:34:53.375 --> 00:34:59.146
      So it's accumulating and concentrating all of these pesticides and chemicals.

      00:34:59.686 --> 00:35:00.949
      Correct and that's a very good point.

      00:35:00.949 --> 00:35:16.224
      But this is why we recommend, whenever you can, trying to get stuff that's organic or if you can buy, from a local farmer where you know that they don't do these same practices, even if it's not technically labeled organic, because I've heard that it can be kind of expensive to get your land certified as organic.

      00:35:16.224 --> 00:35:22.985
      You may find that a local farmer is following those principles, but they can't legally call it that because they've not been certified.

      00:35:23.695 --> 00:35:28.286
      Right, and it's great to get it local anyway, because you're getting the freshest products you can get.

      00:35:28.286 --> 00:35:36.010
      So whenever you can get local from a farmer and support them, and you're getting the best thing anyway by doing that, do it.

      00:35:36.411 --> 00:35:36.972
      It's a win all around.

      00:35:36.972 --> 00:35:38.135
      Do that for yourself, absolutely.

      00:35:38.516 --> 00:35:40.403
      So it's not just pesticides that accumulate.

      00:35:40.403 --> 00:35:44.847
      There are heavy metals that accumulate in the animals from just environmental pollution.

      00:35:44.847 --> 00:35:55.123
      And another problematic substance that I learned about and this was surprising, when I first heard of it, made complete sense, but just hadn't thought about that would be mycotoxin.

      00:35:55.123 --> 00:35:56.306
      Well, what is that?

      00:35:56.306 --> 00:35:57.048
      Myco?

      00:35:57.048 --> 00:36:02.711
      Meaning fungus toxins from fungus that can accumulate in the animal tissue.

      00:36:02.711 --> 00:36:04.619
      Well, you would think, where is that coming from?

      00:36:04.619 --> 00:36:10.978
      It's coming from the grain that's being stored and fed to the cattle before their food sources.

      00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:13.844
      One of them, I think we've talked about aflatoxin.

      00:36:13.844 --> 00:36:30.958
      That is a mycotoxin that can be found in animals, and it's because the grains, the corn, the soybeans, when they're being warehoused in large quantities to be used as feed, they can get fungus on them and then those toxins are created.

      00:36:30.958 --> 00:36:34.027
      They're in that food source that the cattle is eating.

      00:36:34.027 --> 00:36:40.260
      So we like to think of happy cows just grazing in pastures, and ideally that's what God created them to do.

      00:36:40.260 --> 00:36:48.217
      You're not going to have that same scenario, because I have yet to see a cow naturally graze in a cornfield or graze in a soy field.

      00:36:48.739 --> 00:36:52.233
      No they're eating grass, they're eating all the other plants.

      00:36:52.233 --> 00:37:02.677
      They're probably eating dandelions and many other plants, where they're getting the nutrients that they need, and you're not going to see that same type of thing happen in that natural environment.

      00:37:02.896 --> 00:37:10.402
      But surely the natural environment, then the grass-fed cows, then they're okay to eat, because we were eating grass-fed cows when we were at our sickest.

      00:37:10.402 --> 00:37:17.487
      We were eating natural, free-roaming cow meat, cattle meat, buying it direct from farmers when we were at our sickest.

      00:37:18.135 --> 00:37:19.603
      Well, the cow's going to be healthier.

      00:37:19.983 --> 00:37:21.672
      So the cow might be healthier.

      00:37:21.773 --> 00:37:24.342
      The cow's going to be healthier, but that's not going to make the meat any healthier.

      00:37:24.403 --> 00:37:32.862
      Right, because we've got all these other things that you've already been talking about going on in that meat the same way in the free-range cows that it is in the grain-fed cows.

      00:37:33.103 --> 00:37:34.427
      So you may not have the mycotoxins.

      00:37:34.467 --> 00:37:34.748
      Right.

      00:37:34.815 --> 00:37:41.067
      But you're never going to escape the cholesterol, the arachidonic acid, the byproducts of cooking of that meat.

      00:37:41.067 --> 00:37:42.329
      It's still all going to be there.

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