numberwang said:
Does this apply for high quality organic meat and eggs as well? |
Yes. The inflammation isn't caused by all the antibiotics, infectious disease, feces and other contamination, etc., from factory farmed animals. It's caused by the actual digestion of the meat/dairy/eggs. Plant-protein is actually the purest protein. Plants take nitrogen out of the air, synthesize amino acids, and combine them into proteins. Animals eat the plants (or eat animals who ate plants) to get their protein, but in the animal's body that protein is then combined with cholesteral, saturated fat, etc., and when a human eats animal products the processing of that in the body creates problems. Digesting meat floods the body with endotoxins that harm our gut bacteria, and create systemic inflammation. Here's a good article on it: https://nutritionfacts.org/2012/09/20/why-meat-causes-inflammation/ It's actually more the fat than it is the protein, but that's neither here nor there if you're trying to get ripped. You want to work your body, then you want to recover as fast as possible, and then do another workout. Eating pure protein from plant sources is best for this, and eating animal products is worst for this. Both animal and plant protein builds muscle equally well, so the difference is in the recovery rates and this is where plant-based diets have the advantage. Growing numbers of athletes are switching to plant-based diets for this very reason.
