How much protein do we really need?
Hi this is a question from Tim, and he is asking if I could explain in little more detail how much protein the body can utilize a day. I have read many different numbers from thirty to forty perimia, (he did not specify what he meant), one gram per pound of body weight. I am very curious on your thoughts and how much protein an average person should eat per day?
I personally do not eat protein meals per se, I do not look for proteins, I have not eaten protein meals like animal proteins, eggs, fish, chicken, so on for forty years now. Before then, I used to be severely protein deficient even though I was eating every single day, twice a day, or three times a day, dairy products, fish, meat, chicken and so on. So, it depends on how well you digest your food that determines how well, how much protein you might need. So it is really the question should not be how much protein can I get into my body, but how much protein do I digest and absorb?
Some proteins are eaten, more easily digested, than others, so for example, there is just as much protein in broccoli then there is in red meat, yet, if you eat a steak you can only digest up to twenty percent of it, if you eat it when the digestion is the strongest, which is midday, so you have a leftover of eighty percent undigested meat which tends to decompose and produce very powerful poisons and toxins, for this reason, eating meat on a regular basis, according to the National Institute Of Cancer, a study that was done on five hundred fifty thousand Americans, would increase your risk of dying by twenty percent from any kind of illness including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and many others. So the question again is, if your digestive system is equipped with an ability to digest protein then, yes, you can eat more proteins but if you are not, then not being able to digest can be devastating for the body.
I find through my own experiences once I cleaned out my liver I was able to eat and digest proteins again but I found that I did not need to eat any proteins that are derived from animal sources, highly concentrated sources. So I do eat, because I like nuts and seeds, so I have a small amount maybe eight or ten almonds a day, that would account for my protein intake. Then I like Chia seeds which also have some proteins in them, besides that I eat lots of vegetables, salads, lettuce, cucumber, avocado, I eat some grain foods and some legumes at times, and fruit, so, these are the natural foods that are perfectly sufficient to keep my body the way it has always been. I’ve never changed my weight. I do not have any health problems at fifty-seven. My body behaves as if it is like thirty-five, so you do not need to eat protein in order to make protein, I have discovered that a long time ago, that there is a myth that you totally depend on eating protein in order to make protein.
I would suggest, look at animals, the strongest animals on the planet – elephants, gorillas, wild horses – that do not go out and eat a lot of heavy protein meals, they just eat vegetation, so there is something to be said about us, we are obviously not animals, but there is, I am the living proof, I only have to convince myself, I do not have to really convince you or anyone else, I discovered over the years having worked with hundreds and thousands of people around the world that you do not depend on eating animal proteins in order to fulfill your needs for proteins, that you can live perfectly well without those as long as you have an adequate balanced diet and you have a good secretion of bile from your liver, which then allows you to digest the foods that you eat, so that you don’t develop deficiencies like it happened to me where I suffered severe protein deficiency, even though I was eating a lot of protein, and when I cleaned out my liver, I didn’t have a protein deficiency any more, even though I had stopped eating protein meals or protein foods altogether.
So I hope this answers your question on this topic.
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