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Why High Protein Equals High Sugar - The Details

Since I've been getting some comments asking for more detail on Why High Protein Equals High Sugar,

I thought I'd give some more detail to this video, since I've been getting some comments asking the process why eating too much protein at any particular meal, converts over to sugar.

Most of you probably have, but in case you haven't, watch my video below to get caught up. But here's the main point of what I said in the video.

If you eat more than 30-35 grams of protein (depending on body weight) per meal, the rest of that protein will convert over into sugar. I'm going to discuss why that's a problem later, but let me tell you how that conversion works.

Different types of protein absorb at different rates.

Whey: The gold star of protein, Whey, digests at about 10 grams per hour (g/h).
Pea/Vegetable: Pea and other vegetable proteins tend to absorb at around 2 grams per hour.
Meat: Cooked meat, depending on the meat, is typically 6-8 g/hr. This depends on how you cook the meat. Slow cooked meat protein absorbs most efficiently, while highly processed, high-temperature cooked meat protein absorbs poorly.

So understanding these numbers and that the most efficient protein digestion is basically 10 grams per hour and taking into account the fastest healthy digestion rate is 3 hours per meal, anything faster than that is a sign of ill digestion health, like leaky gut, Krohn's disease or "gluten intolerance"and you're really not digesting, you're just pooping all your food into your toilet, hence the expression "it went right through me!" But that's a whole other topic I'll get to in another video and blog. So at a rate of 3 hours per meal, and 10 grams per hour digestion on the most efficient protein, that means on average, you can only efficiently digest 30-35 grams of protein per meal of protein. (Keep in mind this will adjust 30% or more based on the size of the human, but for the average 110-170 pound yuma, 30-35 grams of protein per meal maximum is the range. Think about it, Shaquille O'Neal can handle more protein per meal than say, Hayden Pentatierre.

So then the question is, what happens when you eat more than 35 grams of protein at one meal? Because that happens. You eat a big steak. A large burger. Don't even mention Thanksgiving. The key word for my fellow health nerds and geeks is: glyconeogensis (GNG). What this is, is your body's ability to convert non-sugar things into sugar to run your body. So we're at this place where you've eaten the maximum amount of protein your body can digest. Your body has two options here:

Use that excess protein for energy, by converting it into a fast energy source like sugar.
Consider it a waste product and shit or pee it out.

Here comes the rub: along with this 8-8 ounce steak or your big Thanksgiving dinner, most people have eaten a shit load of carbohydrates with it. Potatoes. Stuffing. Bread. Iced tea. Alcohol. A giant cake or piece of pie. So you've probably reached your glucose capacity already. Your body isn't going to need anymore sugar to run itself. It converts that protein into waste (keep reading, we get to this more later).

But let's assume you didn't do that. You ate a nice meal of an average-sized 8oz steak (56 grams of protein) and broccoli. Thinking you're all low carb and fit. Well, eat ounce of red meat is 4-8 grams of protein. (Per ounce: ground beef = 4 grams protein; top sirloin = 8 grams protein.) As I said before, the digestion rate of meat is around 8 grams per hour, at best. Then you take into account the most efficient digestion rate for the human body, which is 3 hours. At 8 grams multiplied by 3 hours, you get a maximum of 24 grams of protein digested within that meal out of the 56 grams of protein consumed. This leaves another 32 grams of protein just sitting around, doing nothing. So your body immediately uses this GNG to utilize this excess 26 grams of protein. The first thing your body tries to figure out is, "do I need extra sugar" because that's your body's easiest and most efficient energy source. Your blood sugar is relatively low (remember this is the broccoli-steak "healthy meal") because you've been eating a low carb diet. You're on that fit, low carb program. That's why you're eating nothing but steak and low-carb vegetables now. There's a need for sugar. Your body wants sugar. So it converts that excess protein directly over to sugar through a very complicated process called Glyconeogenesis.

The issue here is that it's doing exactly the opposite of what most people are trying trying to accomplish by eating steak and vegetables for your low carb meal: burning excess fat for energy instead of sugar while reducing your sugar cravings. This mistake of eating high protein results in a spike of blood sugar, insulin insensitivity, raised cortisol levels, promotion of gut fat, and increased inflammation.

Now, at the end of this shit storm, you have a massive craving for more sugar, because with an increase of insulin, you've just burnt off all that excess sugar, and now you're in a low blood sugar hypoglycemic spiral, which makes it almost impossible not to eat carbs. Now you're back on the carb gravy train.

Even though you were trying to train your liver to use fat as your energy source by eating low carb, basically you've taken the sugar dildo from both ends. This is if your body's working very efficiently, your liver is perfectly healthy and your digestion is almost running at 100% optimal performance. How many of us do you actually think that is?

Let's assume your body's not a ferrari, but is running more like a Toyota Celica. You have a few dents and the transmission's not running too efficiently. When you eat this supposedly healthy broccoli-steak meal, your liver can't even handle converting that protein into sugar, so it usually treats it as waste product. That creates a lot of toxic bi-product, the majority of which is ammonia. Nitrogen bonds in the protein produce ammonia during digestion. Needless to say, eating or drinking ammonia is bad. So your liver and kidneys have to handle this waste product. Your liver converts that ammonia into uric acid, which is less harmful, and then your kidneys try and filter that uric acid out. High uric acid levels are a cause of many chronic illnesses, such as gout, edema, high blood pressure, heart problems, eye problems and hearing loss. Not to mention tooth decay.

Conclusion: Don't fucking eat more than 30 grams of protein at one sitting, and throughout the day, you shouldn't eat more than 1 gram of protein per kilogram of body weight. Then maybe one day you'll be a ferrari. This is a really vast subject and gets very technical. But if you want to discuss further, let me know down below in the comments. I'll be making more videos about this on youtube. Check out my channel Lovemore Life and remember to subscribe by email to this blog on the upper right hand corner of this page, if you want more in depth information just like this.

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Becoming a Fat Burner

This video expands in a few minutes the basics of how to become a natural fat burner and break you of your sugar/carb addiction as part of my V.H.A.A.L.T method. If you have been dieting and have plateaued, you must see this.

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If You Drink Diet Soda or Sugar Free Anything YOU MUST READ THIS!!... REALLY!!

By Ethan Evers
Natural News
Oct 31, 2012

As few as one diet soda daily may increase the risk for leukemia in men and women, and for multiple melanoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men, according to new results from the longest-ever running study on aspartame as a carcinogen in humans. Importantly, this is the most comprehensive, long-term study ever completed on this topic, so it holds more weight than other past studies which appeared to show no risk. And disturbingly, it may also open the door for further similar findings on other cancers in future studies.

The most thorough study yet on aspartame – Over two million person-years

For this study, researchers prospectively analyzed data from the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study for a 22-year period. A total of 77,218 women and 47,810 men were included in the analysis, for a total of 2,278,396 person-years of data. Apart from sheer size, what makes this study superior to other past studies is the thoroughness with which aspartame intake was assessed. Every two years, participants were given a detailed dietary questionnaire, and their diets were reassessed every four years. Previous studies which found no link to cancer only ever assessed participants’ aspartame intake at one point in time, which could be a major weakness affecting their accuracy.

One diet soda a day increases leukemia, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphomas

The combined results of this new study showed that just one 12-fl oz. can (355 ml) of diet soda daily leads to:

42 percent higher leukemia risk in men and women (pooled analysis)
102 percent higher multiple myeloma risk (in men only)
31 percent higher non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk (in men only)

These results were based on multi-variable relative risk models, all in comparison to participants who drank no diet soda. It is unknown why only men drinking higher amounts of diet soda showed increased risk for multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Note that diet soda is the largest dietary source of aspartame (by far) in the U.S. Every year, Americans consume about 5,250 tons of aspartame in total, of which about 86 percent (4,500 tons) is found in diet soda

Confirmation of previous high quality research on animals

This new study shows the importance of the quality of research. Most of the past studies showing no link between aspartame and cancer have been criticized for being too short in duration and too inaccurate in assessing long-term aspartame intake.

This new study solves both of those issues. The fact that it also shows a positive link to cancer should come as no surprise, because a previous best-in-class research study done on animals (900 rats over their entire natural lifetimes) showed strikingly similar results back in 2006: aspartame significantly increased the risk for lymphomas and leukemia in both males and females. More worrying is the follow on mega-study, which started aspartame exposure of the rats at the fetal stage. Increased lymphoma and leukemia risks were confirmed, and this time the female rats also showed significantly increased breast (mammary) cancer rates. This raises a critical question: will future, high-quality studies uncover links to the other cancers in which aspartame has been implicated (brain, breast, prostate, etc.)?

There is now more reason than ever to completely avoid aspartame in our daily diet. For those who are tempted to go back to sugary sodas as a “healthy” alternative, this study had a surprise finding:

Men consuming one or more sugar-sweetened sodas daily saw a 66 percent increase in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (even worse than for diet soda). Perhaps the healthiest soda is no soda at all.

Sources for this article include:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23097267
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16507461
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17805418

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The Yogurt Myth - Why Store Bought Yogurt is Shit

By Dr. Mercola

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Kastel, co-founder of The Cornucopia Institute, about their long-awaited and much-needed Yogurt Report. The interview took place at the recent Heirloom Seed Festival in Santa Rosa, CA, where we both had the honor of speaking.

The idea for the Yogurt Report was seeded about two years ago. I was out of town and a friend requested yogurt, so I went out looking for some in a local grocery store.

To my dismay, I couldn't find a single healthy yogurt. They were all junk food disguised as "health food." Previous to this experience, I was unaware of how truly degenerated most commercial yogurts had become.

I believe this is really a strong case of deception, so I turned to The Cornucopia Institute. It required two years of investigation.

If you're eating yogurt to help optimize your gut flora, you need to review this report. Chances are you're currently eating yogurt that has more similarities with candy than anything else...

Have You Been Deceived?

Most commercial yogurts are chockfull of artificial colors, flavors, additives, and sugar, typically as fructose (high fructose corn syrup), which actually nourishes disease-causing bacteria, yeast, and fungi in your gut.

Since your gut has limited real estate, this smothers your beneficial bacteria and gets you sick.

Sugar also promotes insulin resistance, which is a driving factor of most chronic disease.

Virtually all commercially available yogurts use pasteurized milk (heated at high temperature) even before it is reheated to make the yogurt itself, and this has its own drawbacks.

The top-rated yogurts are generally VAT pasteurized at relatively low temperatures, and are made from raw milk rather than previously pasteurized milk.

While not as advantageous as making yogurt from raw milk in your own home, it's certainly better than most commercial yogurt.

The report also took a look at the food industry's labeling campaign, Live and Active Cultures, which is supposed to help consumers select products with high levels of healthy probiotics.

To assess probiotic content, Cornucopia tested yogurt purchased directly from grocery stores instead of following the industry's practice of testing levels at the factory. As it turns out, many of the brands bearing the Live and Active Cultureslabel contain LOWER levels of probiotics than the top-rated organic brands in Cornucopia's report and scorecard that are not part of the Live and Active campaign.

The report also includes a comparative cost analysis of commercial yogurt brands. The good news is that many organic yogurts are actually less expensive, on a price-per-ounce basis, than conventional, heavily-processed yogurts.

Cornucopia Files Complaint; Requests FDA Investigation

As noted in their press release announcing the release of the report:

"Based on its industry investigation, The Cornucopia Institute has filed a formal complaint with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking the agency to investigate whether or not certain yogurts on the market, manufactured by such companies as Yoplait, Dannon, and many store brands including Walmart's Great Value, violate the legal standard of identity for products labeled as yogurt.

The Cornucopia Institute requests that the legal definition of 'yogurt' be enforced for product labeling, just as it is for products labeled 'cheese.'

'The reason that Kraft has to call Velveeta® 'processed cheese-food' is that some of the ingredients used, like vegetable oil, cannot legally be in a product marketed as 'cheese',' Kastel added.

Cornucopia alleges that some of the ingredients that manufactures are using in yogurt, like milk protein concentrate (MPC), typically imported from countries like India, do not meet yogurt's current legal standard of identity."

Why You Need Probiotics

Your body contains about 100 trillion bacteria, mostly in your gut, which is more than 10 times the number of cells you have in your entire body. It's now quite clear that the type and quantity of micro-organisms in your gut interact with your body in ways that can either prevent or encourage the development of many diseases.

A healthy microbiome is not only important for optimal digestion of food and absorption of nutrients, these bacteria also help your body produce vitamins, absorb minerals, aid in the elimination of toxins, and are responsible for a good part of your immune system and mental health, including your ability to resist anxiety, stress, and depression.

One recent study1, 2 discovered that yogurt containing Lactobacillus rhamnosuscan help protect children and pregnant women against heavy metal poisoning.

As shown in earlier research, certain microorganisms are particularly efficient at binding to certain toxins and/or chemicals, including pesticides. Here, they found that L. rhamnosus had a preference for binding (and eliminating) mercury and arsenic.

According to the authors: "Probiotic food produced locally represents a nutritious and affordable means for people in some developing countries to counter exposures to toxic metals." Probiotics also have dozens of other beneficial pharmacological actions,3 including:

Anti-bacterial Anti-allergenic Anti-viral Immunomodulatory

Anti-infective Antioxidant Antiproliferative Apoptopic (cellular self-destruction)

Antidepressive Antifungal Cardioprotective Gastroprotective

Radio- and chemo protective Upregulates glutathione and certain glycoproteins that help regulate immune responses, including interleukin-4, interleukin-10, and interleukin-12 Downregulates interleukin-6 (a cytokine involved in chronic inflammation and age-related diseases) Inhibits tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha inhibitor, NF-kappaB, epidermal growth factor receptor, and more

It's also important to realize that your gut bacteria are very vulnerable to lifestyle and environmental factors. Some of the top offenders known to decimate your microbiome include the following—all of which are best avoided:

Sugar/fructose Refined grains Processed foods Antibiotics (including antibiotics given to livestock for food production)

Chlorinated and fluoridated water Antibacterial soaps, etc. Agricultural chemicals and pesticides Pollution

Brain Health Is Strongly Tied to Gut Health

While many think of their brain as the organ in charge of their mental health, your gut may actually play a far more significant role. Mounting research indicates that problems in your gut can directly impact your mental health, leading to issues like anxiety and depression.4 For example:

One proof-of-concept study5, 6 conducted by researchers at UCLA found that yogurt containing several strains of probiotics thought to have a beneficial impact on intestinal health also had a beneficial impact on participants' brain function; decreasing activity in brain regions that control central processing of emotion and sensation such as anxiety.

The Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility7 reported the probiotic known as Bifidobacterium longum NCC3001normalized anxiety-like behavior in mice with infectious colitis by modulating the vagal pathways within the gut-brain.

Other research8 found that the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus had a marked effect on GABA levels—an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is significantly involved in regulating many physiological and psychological processes—in certain brain regions and lowered the stress-induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety- and depression-related behavior.

Previous studies have confirmed that what you eat can quickly alter the composition of your gut flora. Specifically, eating a high-vegetable, fiber-based diet produces a profoundly different composition of microbiota than a more typical Western diet high in carbs and processed fats.

This is part and parcel of the problem with most commercially available yogurts—they're widely promoted as healthy because they contain (added) probiotics, but then they're so loaded with ingredients that will counteract all the good that they're basically useless... The negative effects of the sugar far outweigh any marginal benefits of the minimal beneficial bacteria they have. Remember, the most important step in building healthy gut flora is avoiding sugar as that will cause disease-causing microbes to crowd out your beneficial flora.

Surprisingly, Mark Kastel notes that some of the organic brands of yogurt actually contained some of the highest amounts of sugar! It's important to realize that some yogurt can contain as much sugar as candy or cookies, which most responsible parents would not feed their children for breakfast. Artificial flavors are also commonly used.

You Can Easily and Inexpensively Make Your Own Yogurt

Your absolute best bet, when it comes to yogurt, is to make your own using a starter culture and raw grass-fed milk. Raw organic milk from grass-fed cows not only contains beneficial bacteria that prime your immune system and can help reduce allergies, it's also an outstanding source of vitamins (especially vitamin A), zinc, enzymes, and healthy fats. Raw organic milk is not associated with any of the health problems of pasteurized milk such as rheumatoid arthritis, skin rashes, diarrhea, and cramps.

To find a local source of raw grass-fed milk, see RealMilk.com.

While delicious as is, you could add a natural sweetener to it. Mark suggests whole food sweeteners such as raw organic honey or maple syrup, for example. You can also add flavor without sweetening it up by adding some vanilla extract, or a squirt of lime or lemon juice. Whole berries or fruits are another obvious alternative. Just be mindful not to overdo it, especially if you're insulin or leptin resistant—and about 80 percent of Americans are.

Nourish Your Microbiome with Organic Yogurt for Optimal Health

Cultured foods like yogurt are good sources of natural, healthy bacteria, provided they're traditionally fermented and unpasteurized. One of the best and least expensive ways to get healthy bacteria through your diet is to obtain raw milk and convert it to yogurt or kefir. It's really easy to make at home. All you need is some starter granules in a quart of raw milk, which you leave at room temperature overnight.

By the time you wake up in the morning you will likely have kefir. If it hasn't obtained the consistency of yogurt, you might want to set it out a bit longer and then store it in the fridge.

A quart of kefir has far more active bacteria than you'd obtain from a probiotic supplement, and it's very economical as you can reuse the kefir from the original quart of milk about 10 times before you need to start a new culture pack. Just one starter package of kefir granules can convert about 50 gallons of milk to kefir! Cultured foods should be a regular part of your diet, and if you eat enough of them you will keep your digestive tract well supplied with good bacteria. There may still be times when a probiotic supplement is necessary, but for day-to-day gut health maintenance, yogurt and other traditionally cultured or fermented foods are truly ideal choices.

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Unreasonable Happiness Presented by Marcus Lovemore

Why High Protein Equals High Sugar - The Details

Becoming a Fat Burner

If You Drink Diet Soda or Sugar Free Anything YOU MUST READ THIS!!... REALLY!!

The Yogurt Myth - Why Store Bought Yogurt is Shit

Have You Been Deceived?

Cornucopia Files Complaint; Requests FDA Investigation

Why You Need Probiotics

Brain Health Is Strongly Tied to Gut Health

You Can Easily and Inexpensively Make Your Own Yogurt

Nourish Your Microbiome with Organic Yogurt for Optimal Health

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Anti-bacterial	Anti-allergenic	Anti-viral	Immunomodulatory
Anti-infective	Antioxidant	Antiproliferative	Apoptopic (cellular self-destruction)
Antidepressive	Antifungal	Cardioprotective	Gastroprotective
Radio- and chemo protective	Upregulates glutathione and certain glycoproteins that help regulate immune responses, including interleukin-4, interleukin-10, and interleukin-12	Downregulates interleukin-6 (a cytokine involved in chronic inflammation and age-related diseases)	Inhibits tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha inhibitor, NF-kappaB, epidermal growth factor receptor, and more

Sugar/fructose	Refined grains	Processed foods	Antibiotics (including antibiotics given to livestock for food production)
Chlorinated and fluoridated water	Antibacterial soaps, etc.	Agricultural chemicals and pesticides	Pollution