Protein! This widely misunderstood macronutrient is vital for your health and critical for almost every function in the body. Under consume protein and the body literally cannibalizes muscle and organ tissue to get it, sabotaging your health goals. In Chapter 11, ‘The Dynamic Role of Proteins in Weight Loss’ of my new book The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need!, it was my goal to present the power of protein in a way that everyone could clearly understand and practically apply. Readers learn that the daily requirement of protein that we’ve been led to believe is optimal is not. Supplementing strategically with high quality protein powder is a key to reaching your goal of Super Health and its companion, your optimal weight!
Audio Transcript
KC: Welcome to Living Fuel TV. I’m KC Craichy with my wife Monica. So protein, you now know you need more of it, and now you know that you need protein powder also. Now we said we would talk more about this, so today we’re going to talk more about it.
Monica: Let me start real fast on page 298. Love this chapter 11 on protein. It says: “Higher protein intake also promotes fullness, is thought to increase energy expenditure via thermogenesis, and helps to stabilize blood sugar levels. High protein levels tend to limit regain of weight after dieting. There’s so many benefits to high levels of proteins.
KC: It is incredible. In fact, reading chapter 11 of this book is important if you’re an athlete, a dieter, a diabetic, a pregnant or nursing mom. Any stage of life, this chapter can really shed some light on some really important health enhancing subjects here for you.
Monica: Let’s talk about protein powders. That last show we talked about isolates, hydroxylase and concentrates.
KC: So, the protein powder subject is so confusing, because you can walk into a vitamin store and there is dozens of different brands of protein powders. Like you said, concentrates, hydroxylase, isolates. How do you pick a protein powder? First let’s be clear on a protein powder. Protein powders, by themselves do not taste good. People say I like this protein powder because it tastes good. If it tastes good, you need to look into why it tastes good. Now if you’re OK with drink protein concentrates, and you don’t have any reactions and you don’t snore and you don’t feel congested or that sort of thing, maybe that’s OK for you.
Monica: What do you mean protein concentrate?
KC: Well concentrate is the cheapest milk protein, dairy protein, and it’s not just dairy. It’s a way of deriving protein that’s not as expensive as other ways, like isolates and hydroxylase. But the point is, look at the ingredients. If it’s protein powder, if it says whey protein, isolates plus concentrate plus this or plus that, now look at what they put in it. Chocolate flavor, strawberry flavor.
Monica: Let me read this. On your page 306, it says these are things you should look for and if it has it on there you probably shouldn’t get it. It says “no high glycemic carbohydrates like sucrose, fructose, and maltadextrine. No artificial sweeteners like aspertanone, excitotoxin, sucrulose chlorinated sugar, and [ADELPHANE] which contains the known carcinogen methylchloride.” Now if a food, protein or powder supplement contains these ingredients or contains GMOs, you don’t genetically modified organisms in your proteins. You don’t want artificial flavors, artificial colors, or preservatives. You’re better off not consuming these. You also want to avoid damaged and unhealthy fats, including vegetable oils. All hydrogenated oils. Avoid powdered eggs and powdered milk. Now, why should they avoid the powdered eggs and powdered milk, real fast?
KC: Well, powdered eggs and powdered milk use the process of heat to damage the proteins.
Monica: So you’re damaging the eggs, you’re damaging the milk, before you’re putting it in.
KC: Right. So if you heat or have heated egg white protein, that can be OK. But the whole egg, particularly the delicate fats and things in the yellow of the egg, if it’s just whole egg, powdered protein, I would avoid it.
Monica: All right. So, I’ll refer back to page 305 of your book. And this is in a nutshell what people need to look for. You say “my preference is an optimize blend of brown rice, yellow pete protein powder, with added amino acids, fiber, probiotics, enzymes, vitamin C, and optimized essential amino acid powder.”
KC: Absolutely. This is the key. The key is, you want it as clean as possible. The things that are in there to make it taste good need to be healthy. And the list of thing that she read to you is really important that you get that list and you read it and understand how you pick your protein powder. Now, any store you go into, if you go to a vitamin center, there may be one or two brands that are acceptable protein sources. That’s pretty sad, frankly. So there’s dozens of brands that are not acceptable. They have all these, I would call prohibitive ingredients, that you don’t want to do. So this is very important that you understand this, and that you get a protein powder that works for you. I’ll reiterate that protein powders by themselves, no matter if they’re whey or soy or egg or any other protein powder, they do not taste good by themselves. Neutral is the taste of a protein powder for the most part.
Monica: But I find that you can add, you know, half of a banana or strawberries or even a little bit juice. I think you can make it taste better.
KC: A splash of juice. The point is you want neutral. If it tastes yummy, there’s probably a problem.
Monica: Well I always say go ahead and chug the protein and then eat something that you really enjoy along with it.
KC: Absolutely. Well, we hope this was helpful to you. God bless you, and have a great day.
