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Beef

Beef is a type of meat that comes from cows. It is high in protein and contains numerous vitamins and minerals including B12, B6, zinc, selenium, iron, and niacin. Beef can be consumed in various forms such as steaks, roasts, or ground beef.

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Food
Molecular Formula
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Mechanism of Action
The nutrients in beef are metabolized in the body to provide energy, support muscle growth and repair, and contribute to the functioning of various physiological processes.
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Cow meat
  • Steak
  • Roast beef
  • Ground beef

Primary Benefits

  • High in protein
  • Source of various vitamins and minerals
  • Supports muscle growth and repair

Recommended Dosage

Adults 3-4 servings per week
Children 2-3 servings per week

Side Effects

  • May increase risk of heart disease if consumed in high amounts
  • Possible risk of foodborne illness if not properly cooked

Precautions

  • People with high cholesterol or heart disease should limit their intake
  • Should be properly cooked to avoid foodborne illness

Interactions

  • May interact with blood-thinning medications due to its vitamin K content

Key References

  • https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/food-features/beef/
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6049644/
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“you just looking at it you know it's by weight as much fat as protein and by calories and farm you know it's going to be 80 fat and i actually made one of these for lunch”

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“is it did i get fatter did i somehow dysregulate my fat tissue by eating that the way you might be doing eating the dorito”

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“it was uh coffee mate red meat and cigarettes and they lived into their 90s so that side of my family has the genetic Advantage the other side less so”

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“I try to prioritize protein every meal super simple and I try not to eat one protein I try to eat all the proteins right that's probably better I try not to choose personally very fatty proteins because my genetics don't really support it if I want to see triglycerides and and things go through the roof then I'll you know watch me eat eggs and butter and steak like keto gives me diarrhea”

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“take this kettle bell and you keep it in your hotel room or wherever is your steak out do one clean one press one front squat put the kettle bell down Shake It Off one clean one press one squat put it down and like a metronome in a very rhythmical manner you're not trying to breathe hard you're not trying to get a pump with singles you won't and you do this for you do this for about you know 30 minutes or whatever amount time amount of time that you do and and it does develop that repeat strength endurance fantastically well”

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“you can obtain this from red meat go figure something that's been at the center of the human diet for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years”

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“You consume collagen, you break it down into both single amino acids, as you do when you eat an egg or a piece of beef.”

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“i can break a fast i can have a 50 gram whey protein shake and then i'll follow that up with a bunch of ground beef and i'll get myself to 125 grams then all i have to do is get you know another 75 grams throughout the next few hours and i'm i'm kosher i'm good”

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“Masa chips are crafted with grass-fed beef tallow, one of the healthiest fats on the planet. These chips are packed with essential vitamins like vitamin A, D, E, and vitamin K2.”

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“I'd say the second most important thing to do is learn how to cook at home get the necessary equipment find uh a half a dozen recipes that you actually learn how to make and enjoy and that means you might have to start with 15 recipes and remember they're mostly Whole Food plant-based um nobody's going to live longer eating eating roast beef or uh what do you call them bangers and bangers a mash bangers and mash I hate to say or you know greasy chips or um fish and that sort of thing so learning how to make and then when you the problem with going out to eat”

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“red meat is a problem because it induces inflammation and um that you know it's okay to have it on a limited amount but you know some people eat a lot of red meat and they ought to reassess that because the correlation with all cause mortality cancer cardiovascular um Alzheimer's it's all there.”

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“I do eat an amount of red meat that would really break your heart.”

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“avoid the seed oils that's a that's the first step and then if you want to get really granular and decrease the amount of linolic acid in your diet you want to do grass-fed beef versus grain-fed beef”

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“I think they're overprescribed and underappreciated in terms of their side effects but we believe that statins are good we believe that saturated fat is causing heart disease we believe that red meat is bad for you.”

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“my mom takes the the beef organ supplement from Harden soil all the time and this is another thing that I'm super proud of so you got to try one of these beef sticks”

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“you generally want something like 2third of your fats to come from plant fats poly and monounsaturated maybe onethird of your fats to come from saturated fat sources like eggs and beef and things like that”

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“when you break your fast protein and healthy fats or protein and carbs it's never carbs naked you know use the term you know naked carbs meaning you don't just sit down any bowl of chips you want to have a steak or a piece of chicken or a piece of fish or some egg and you could have some carbs with that correct but eat the meat or the protein first.”

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“so stay away from a lot of meat when you're younger but once you hit 65 you can have the grass-fed steak”

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“So if you eat legumes, it may take a pound of legumes to get 45 grams of proteins. If you eat a steak, it takes 200 grams so a lot less.”

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“So look at things like your diet because that might help with your symptoms. So because as we already know it's an inflammatory process, they talk about in reducing things that increase the inflammation. So some people will look at reducing dairy products, reducing red meat, sort of practicing more of a meditarian diet, reducing alcohol if you drink.”

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“Switched to a carnivore diet 3 to four pounds of fatty meat per day mostly pork and beef this was dairy free no plants and uh he checked his ketones using urine testing.”

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“And his focus on the food aspect has been to remove uh one oil and replace it with beef tallow.”

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“I might have some kind of carbohydrate but usually um running around got to get the kids to school or whatever it is my my next meal might be some lean beef I'll definitely have carbs I'll have either rice or potato and some kind of greens and that will be another you know if I were to think about how much protein I'm a tiny person um maybe 110 lbs I might have 12 grams of protein a day and then the last meal is also between 30 and 50 gram of protein and probably close to 50 grams of carbs.”

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“what foods have iron in them or iron rich so primarily red meat is where a lot of people turn to but if you are more plant-based then we look at leafy greens we look at nuts and seeds but using a lot of vitamin C with that prly adding um a little bit of olive oil on our salads uh maybe cooking in an iron skillet to improve the amount of iron that comes into the food”

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“I would say the type of saturated fats that we want to avoid are the saturated fats that are found in most animal products except fermented dairy except cheese except yogurt so beef Tallow I would say the evidence consistently shows is not favorable for our health lard mhm butter in large amounts”

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“even grass-fed beef is often grain finished and so if you look at the uh the like fat profile for example of those animals uh they're not that different than a grainfed animal.”

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“so we all eat protein let's say you eat too much protein yeah you know the Porter House steak all right now if you're a bodybuilder those amino acids might go to muscle and you might increase your muscle mass because you're a bodybuilder because you're putting uh excess uh force on those muscles and you're growing those muscles okay but let's say you're not a bodybuilder let's say you're a mmortal like me or let's say you're a kid going through puberty who's synthesizing a lot of muscle not because they're lifting weights because they're because testosterone's making it happen yeah absolutely but let's say you're not let's say you know you're just you know just schlump the the street like uh you know joeo okay and you eat that Porter House you've taken on all these amino acids there's no place to store it other than muscle so your liver takes the excess and deamidates that amino acid takes the amino group off to turn it from a amino acid into an organic acid and then that organic acid can then enter the kreb cycle the tricarboxylic acid cycle what goes on in the mitochondria in order to…”

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“what makes insulin go up well two things refine carbohydrate and sugar those are the two things that make insulin go up in addition Branch chain amino acids make insulin go up as well Lucine isoline veine which is in cornfed beef chicken and fish processed food”

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“eating fish is a good place to be um even eating a steak is okay if it's a pasture-fed steak.”

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“if you are consuming a lot of red meat and your cholesterol is good and the other markers are good, that's fine. It sounds like it's good for you but if you see that the cholesterol is starting to get higher or any other marker, you should be careful.”

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“not everybody can afford steak for example or or or or more expensive foods of that type but virtually everyone poor or not in the West can afford basic carbohydrates”

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“all calories created equal from an energy balance standpoint sure at an isocaloric level if I give you 1,000 calories of Coca-Cola versus 1,000 calories of baked potatoes versus 1,000 calories of steak it will have the same impact on your energy balance but it won't have the same impact on your appetite and your ability to subsequently eat”

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“if she only ate beef and it turns out for her it has to be beef that isn't aged then all of her immunological symptoms disappeared”

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“I've only been eating meat for beef fundamentally for almost five years now and I've talked to hundreds of people and we've had messages from thousands of people showing that this is first of all radically effective as a weight loss strategy and also seems to to produce remarkable effects on the general disease symptom front”

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“I eat a lot of meat and a lot of high fat meat and so I'm never hungry and I don't think that I'm calorie restricted at all because you know I can eat well a Tomahawk Steak sometimes in one sitting which is about 35 ounces of meat.”

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“I do better if I just stick to beef.”

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“if I ever start to crave a banana split for example I can just eat another five or six ounces of steak and then I don't care”

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“I pitted uh Beyond Meat versus Red Meat for cardioabolic outcomes and the Beyond Meat won in several categories over the red meat.”

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“Beyond Meat actually did better than the red meat. And they actually after that took out the coconut oil, took out some other ingredients, added some more benign ingredients, and they've actually reformulated multiple times.”

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“all these plant sources have a lot of they have all the different amino acids that beef does in different proportions but they have them.”

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“bioavailability gets lumped into quality protein like this. So there are these charts, right, that say that, you know, egg is the near-perfect protein or beef is the near perfect protein because of the bioavailability, our ability to use the amino acids as opposed to the amino acids being bound up by fiber or somehow not accessible.”

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“You put up the list of ingredients for Beyond Meat or Impossible Meat and then you compare it to the ingredients in beef and you don't have to be a nutrition expert to say there's a lot of ingredients.”

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“So in the ingredients in the meat, is there antibiotics? Is there hormones? Is there corn? Is there soy? So it's a really easy argument to make when you slaughtered the beef and you took a kite and here it is. It is only beef. That is not everything that went into it.”

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“I'm trying eat more fat like every time you're making a steak put butter on there and when you're drinking a cup of coffee as crazy as it sounds I drink yerba mate every morning I will put a big dab of butter like a big dab of butter in my tea”

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“everything we have talked about on this podcast today whether it be NR NAD nmn thumin magnesium this supplement that supplement all of that stuff while potentially mattering I would put in the category of was the Titanic serving LOB Lobster or steak”

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“the evidence would support two to three times that amount closer to 9 n gam of Lucine per day and just to calibrate us n gram of Lucine again is essential amino acid we can only get from food per day what does that equate to in terms of the total amount of let's say egg or steak protein that one would need to eat in order to ensure that just rough roughly yes.”

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“why is it that if I eat a plate of scrambled eggs or a steak or a chicken breast and some vegetables I feel very sated... but that if I eat any of those same foods and one piece of a baguette or one fork full of pasta that then I want a lot more pasta and I want half the loaf of bread?”

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“It's also mostly protein. Now, they're not as bioavailable. So, you're getting like two thirds the amount as you would from a steak- Your body has to work a little harder for it.”

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“you want to get B vitamins again fet is a B vitamin but getting getting U B vitamins zinc um also you want to get iron these are also important micronutrients you know minerals that's where you get the meat right so red meat for the iron and protein B vitamins it's got zinc um as well poultry is another option right so these are good sources of um protein and other micronutrients that you're not going to get as much from Plants”

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“At dinner, I mean, I love food as much as anybody. So I will eat a regular, pretty healthy meal. I'll try to eat mostly vegetables, I can eat some fish, some shrimp, I rarely will eat a steak.”

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“if I eat a steak, it will not get digested very well. I'll feel terrible.”

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“I would eat steak all the time if I could. I did when I was a kid, I'm an Australian. But plants have two benefits. One is that they're highly nutritious, and they'll give you a lot of the vitamins and nutrients that I need.”

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“it's missing a lot of nutrition it's not if you look at the dark red meat of l like elk like a backstrap from elk is a dark red”

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