Meat, the good things.

With all the bad press for year on meat and the current craze to poo poo it again in the fitness field I just wanted to simply state some of the great benefits of meat.

1 - All of the nutrients that were slowly, patiently, and persistently accumulated in the tissues of the herbivore turned dinner are now an instant nutrient packed multi-vitamin for us meat eaters or omnivores. Now remember were talking real nutrient total density not some skewed density where you take a nearly zero calorie food like Broccoli and divide it by its few nutrients of course your get a high calorie to nutrient ratio, but still to get the same amount of nutrients by volume or weight you better pull up to a truck load of those green florets to equal a pound of power packed animal flesh.Good luck as well trying to maintain let alone gain mass with them. Meat is truely natures multi-vitamin



2- Quality protein (duh)

3- Vitamin B12 (essential nutrient, red cell formation, energy)

4- Heme Iron (readily absorbed form, fights fatigue in some persons)

5- Zinc (readily absorbed from meat, sub-par in most diets)

6- n-3 fatty acids (potent EPA and DHA compared to the plant-based linolenic acid)

7- Creatine (muscular power and cell volume)

8- Carnosine (cellular buffering, antioxidant effects, longevity)

Just the B12 and Iron alone, meats provide it to us like NO, thats right NO other food source on the planet. That alone is worth sitting done to a plate of bambi. (yes I know I just wrote something on the ill effect of iron but Iron is good, its excess iron thats bad that was the take home message)

You of course can mask a deficiency for the most part with folate but what you cant stop is the inevitable nerve damage from a lack of B12. B12, you must have it it is essential and where do you get it???? That's right. Meat.

Again Quality protein.
Meat contains all the EAA's as well the biological value of beef is 75 and its PDCAAS is 0.92.It also gives a nice slow stream of amino's and nutrients as it is slowly digested as compared to many other protein such as milk and egg based protein which give the blast we need at times.



Omega 3's or n-3 fatty acids. Yup chalk another one up for meat sources, heck even the lesser grain fed sources of beef have some high quality n-3's let alone their mush improved grass fed counter parts or fishy friends. Sure you can find vege sources in the form of algal residues, or the much weaker linolenic acid but they just don't stack up.



While we have fish on the mind do your self a favor and look up astaxanthin, a cartenoid in crustaceans and what makes salmon pink. You'll be thrilled by the benefits

I could go into the rest like the myriad of benefits of carnosine, the superiority of Heme Iron etc etc etc. but that is not my intention. My intention was to merely spark a match. Ill leave it to you if interested to take the time and let your mouse do the walking on the deeper benefits of each I listed. Ill even give you a NICE of references and reading upon request if you like I received via my friend Dr. Lonnie Lowery.

Be it legged or winged, feathered or furred, eating their meat is the best thing I've heard